18 Picture Books with Love in the Title

Valentine’s Day is nearing, but it does not always have to be about romance, especially for young readers. Love can be celebrated, discovered, and shared in many ways, for many things. Family, hair, self, community, books—even bees—are the subjects featured in this list of books with love in their titles. The description for Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist’s classic Honey, I Love states that “Greenfield reminded us that love can be found just about anywhere.” 

This fall, look for Hold Them Close: A Love Letter to Black Children by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, illustrated by Patrick Dougher (HarperCollins, October 4, 2022).

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1. Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries

Tiffany Rose | little bee books, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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2. Daddy Speaks Love

Leah Henderson | E. B. Lewis | Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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3. Count to Love! (Bright Brown Baby Board Book)

Andrea Davis Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Cartwheel Books, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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4. America, My Love, America, My Heart

Daria Peoples-Riley | Greenwillow Books, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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5. The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter

Shabazz Larkin | Readers to Eaters, 2019 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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6. My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day (Board Book)

Jabari Asim | Tara Nicole Whitaker | HarperFestival, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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7. Brown: The Many Shades of Love

Nancy Johnson James | Constance Moore | Cameron Kids, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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8. Bee Love (Can Be Hard)

Alan Page | Kamie Page | David Geister | Page Education Foundation, 2021 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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9. I Love Me!

LaRonda Gardner Middlemiss | Beth Hughes | Beaming Books, 2020 | Amazon | Bookshop |  IndieBound

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10. Hair Love

Matthew A. Cherry | Vashti Harrison | Kokila, 2019 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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11. We Chose You: A Book About Adoption, Family, and Forever Love

Tony Dungy | Lauren Dungy | Guy Wolek | Harvest House Publishers, 2019 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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12. I Love You More Than . . .

Taye Diggs | Shane W. Evans | Feiwel & Friends, 2018 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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13. Homemade Love (Board Book)

bell hooks | Shane W. Evans | Jump at the Sun, 2017 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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14. One Love: Based on the Song by Bob Marley

Adapted by Cedella Marley | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Chronicle Books, 2015 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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15. Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems

Traci Dant | Eric Velasquez | Two Lions, 2010 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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16. Full, Full, Full of Love

Trish Cooke | Paul Howard | Candlewick, 2003 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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17. Honey, I Love

Eloise Greenfield | Jan Spivey Gilchrist | HarperCollins, 2002 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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18. I Love My Hair!

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley | E. B. Lewis | Little Brown BYR, 1998 | Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

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