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Cozy Reads for Chilly Days

Settle in for some cozy reads this winter! Find a cozy corner in your home, pile on the blankets, make some hot cocoa, and enjoy stories all about snuggly clothes and blankets, cuddles and sleeping, and warm, good food.

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  • A mother and daughter spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove.
    Picture Book, 2010New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2010. — jPICTURE STORIES IWAI, M.
  • Dog's bed looks so cozy that all the other animals want to snuggle up too!
    Picture Book, 2015Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. — jPICTURE STORIES KORDA, L.
  • When the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma's house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.
    Picture Book, 2017Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017] — jPICTURE CONCEPTS BROWN-WOOD, J.
  • Two twin girls, who have always shared everything, sleep in separate beds with their own blankets for the first time.
    Picture Book, 2011New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.
  • Kitty tries out hugs from all different animals but finds he likes the hug from his baby brother the best.
    Picture Book, 2007New York : Holiday House, [2007]
  • It's time for Bear to hibernate but he can't sleep, so his friends all band together to help
    Picture Book, 2018New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2018] — jPICTURE FAVORITE BEAR
  • Cat and Yarn are the best of friends. They have so much fun playing together, the two are inseparable. Until the day Girl takes Yarn away.
    Picture Book, 2016New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2016. — jPICTURE SCIENCE/NATURE GRANT, J.
  • When winter comes, Mommy makes a soft bed for Little Snow to sleep on, but each night he cannot resist jumping on the bed, causing tiny feathers to fly down.
    Picture Book, 2019New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [2019] — jPICTURE BEDTIME LIN, G.
  • While other animals sleep at night, some quietly and others noisily, some alone and others huddled together, a wide-eyed owl watches.
    Picture Book, 2009New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009]
  • A beloved teddy can bear it no longer and plots his escape from his owner's sufocating affections in this laugh-out-loud picture book.
    Picture Book, 2020Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] — jPICTURE STORIES LICHTENHELD, T.
  • When Liam's favorite teddy bear, Winston, gets muddy and needs to be washed, he plots to save his friend from the terrible fate of the big, loud, scary washing machine.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — jPICTURE STORIES BELOTE, A.
  • The Mitten

    a Ukrainian Folktale

    Brett, Jan, 1949-
    One by one, animals in a snowy forest crawl into Nicki's lost white mitten to get warm until the bear sneezes, sending the animals flying up and out of the mitten.
    Picture Book, 2009New York, N.Y. : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Penguin Young Readers Group, 2009. — j 398.209477 BRE
  • Presents a song set to the tune of "The wheels on the bus," where a multigenerational family enjoys a culturally rich meal.
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2021. — jPICTURE TALES & RHYMES SHANG, W.
  • A soothing bedtime story about baby animals being tucked into bed and kissed good night.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — jPICTURE BEDTIME MURRAY, D.
  • The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
    Book, 1989New York : Scholastic, [1989], ©1962. — jE BIG BOOKS KEATS, E.
  • Soomi's new sweater arrives, but it doesn't quite fit. Mom makes it just right and Soomi can't wait to show her friends. Soon, Soomi's brand new sweater isn't so new anymore. Her friends try to patch it up, but nothing works. Thankfully, Mom knows…
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Clavis, [2021] — jPICTURE STORIES OH, S.
  • On a crisp, fall day and evening, rambunctious bear cubs turn getting dressed into an adventure.
    Picture Book, 2021New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — jPICTURE STORIES PHELAN, M.
  • A cozy winter bedtime story, featuring a boy and animal characters, that touches on the concept of hibernation.
    Picture Book, 2017Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2017. — jPICTURE BEDTIME ASHMAN, L.
  • In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, preparing ingredients, setting the table, and finally sitting down with her family to enjoy a favorite meal.
    Picture Book, 2005New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2005] — jPICTURE STORIES PARK, L.
  • With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
    Picture Book, 2012New York : Balzer + Bray, 2012. — jPICTURE STORIES BARNETT, M.