One year when I was about 9 or 10, I decided not to wear any green on St. Patrick’s Day. The truth is, my eyes are green and I wanted to play a trick on my friends so that when they pinched me for not wearing green, I could turn around and pinch them back 10 times. (That’s the rule, isn’t it?) I remember other years trying to be sneaky about where I placed my item of green: underwear, socks, a hair elastic, a bracelet or earrings. Now that I’m older, I still think it’s fun to celebrate this tradition of wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day and my kids have loved it the last couple of years as well now that they are old enough to correlate green with the holiday. And ever since having kids, I try to find a book or two that goes along with the holiday that we’re celebrating, including the one about leprechauns and pots of gold.
With St. Patrick’s Day coming up next week, I thought it would be fun to gather a list of children’s books about the holiday. I remember some of these books from when I was in elementary school and I know my kids will love them too. I’ve included a direct link to the book as well as the age range that is suggested for each book. I hope you’ll be “lucky” enough to find a book or two to help celebrate this fun holiday! *wink*
Ages: 4-10
Ages: 4-7
The Story of the Leprechaun by Katherine Tegen
Ages: 4-8
How To Trap A Leprechaun by Sue Fliess
Ages: 3-6
The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever by Teddy Slater
Ages: 4-8
Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk by Gerald McDermott
Ages: 5 and up
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Curious George by H. A. Rey
Ages: 3 and up
The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow by Sean Callahan
Ages: 6-8
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover by Lucille Colandro
Ages: 3-5
Jack and the Leprechaun by Ivan Robertson
Ages: 3-7
The Little Leprechaun Who Loved Yellow by Sally Huss
Ages: 2-8
Lucky Tucker by Leslie McGuirk
Ages: 2-5
A Fine St. Patrick’s Day by Susan Wojciechowski
Ages: 3-7
Discovery In The Woods: A St. Patrick’s Day Surprise (Leprechaun Adventure Series: Book 1) by Sandy Barton
Ages: 8 and up
Leprechauns Don’t Play Basketball (The Adventures of The Bailey School Kids, #4) by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Ages: 7-10
Leprechauns Never Lie by Lorna Balian
Ages: 4-7
18 Comments
My son has been asking about St. Patrick's Day, not sure why but maybe he is curious. These books look interesting for sure.
these look really cute! great list of books!
Cute book suggestions! I can't believe I'm Irish and have zero St. Pat books! I need to get cracking!
Thanks for the cute book selection!
I can't wait for Ella to be old enough to actually want to read through a book. 😉
XO! Vanessa
So many fun books!! Thanks for sharing!
So many cute books! I checked our local library about a week ago for St. Patrick's Day books and was really disappointed by the lack of holiday books.
My husband's family is part-Irish and we have zero St Patty's Day books! Yikes! Thanks for the suggestions.
Books are a great way to introduce holidays!
Thanks Jasmine! I'm glad you found some you liked!
Haha, get on that girl!
My kids just love looking through books, especially ones with lots of color, so St. Patrick's Day books are great for that.
I had fun looking through all of them and even remembered reading a few when I was in elementary school.
Really? You'd think a library would be an easy place to find holiday books. Or maybe they all got checked out.
What a fun heritage to have!
We have one of the "There was an old lady who swallowed an.." books — I think it is the Easter one. It's cute, the kids get a kick out of it.
How cute! I'll have to check that one out for my kids.
What fun books! I hadn't heard of most of these!
Some of them are new to me as well!