If you like to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and you like to read holiday books with your child, here are 7 books about St. Patrick’s Day you can read to your toddler or school aged children. Enjoy some history, shamrocks, rainbows, leprechauns and a little mischief with these great titles.
St Patrick’s Day is a celebration of the Irish culture. It is largely celebrated in the United States to celebrate Irish-American culture on March 17th. St. Patrick was one of Ireland’s patron saints who ministered Christianity in Ireland during the fifth century. During his life he established monasteries, churches, and schools.
Although blue was the color traditionally associated with St. Patrick, green is now commonly connected with the day. Irish and non-Irish alike commonly participate by wearing green to celebrate the holiday in addition to sporting a shamrock the Irish national plant.
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How To Catch A Leprechaun by Adam Wallace
You’ve been planning night and day, and finally you’ve created the perfect trap! Now all you need to do is wait. Is this the year you’ll finally catch the leprechaun? Start a St. Patrick’s Day tradition with this fun and lively children’s book.
How to catch a leprechaun?
It’s tougher than you think!
He’ll turn your whole house upside down.
He’s quicker than a wink!
Pete The Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase by James Dean
It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and it’s also the grand opening of Pete the Cat’s leprechaun catching business. Pete gears up to trap a leprechaun for his friends! But catching a leprechaun is never easy—especially if it’s Clover, who’s full of tricks.
Will luck be on Pete’s side? Or will Pete learn luck is actually something earned? Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase also comes complete with a poster, stickers, and twelve punch-out St. Patrick’s Day cards.
The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun by Jeffrey Burton
A magical St. Patrick’s Day twist on the popular nursery rhyme “The Itsy Bitsy Spider!”
The itsy bitsy leprechaun was hiding pots of gold.
Down came a rainbow, colorful and bold,
Out came his friends and they all began to look,
For the perfect four leaf clover hidden in this book!
The itsy bitsy leprechaun is ready for a St. Patrick’s Day adventure as he searches for a lucky four-leaf clover. Little ones will love this magical twist on the classic nursery rhyme “The Itsy Bitsy Spider!”
There Was An Old Who Swallowed A Clover by Lucille Colandro
There was an Old Lady who swallowed things over and over, and now she’s come back to swallow a clover!
She’s back! That lovely old lady has returned just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Now she’s swallowing items to make the perfect rainbow to hide a pot of gold.
The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing
Natasha Wing puts an Irish twist on a Christmas classic. It’s the night before St. Patrick’s Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning to the sound of their dad playing the bagpipes and the smell of their mom cooking green eggs, they’re shocked to find that they’ve actually caught a leprechaun. But will they be able to find his pot of gold?
How To Build A Leprechaun Trap by Larissa Juliano
Can you be the first to catch a leprechaun?
Catching leprechauns is no easy task-you need more than dandelion tea and four-leaf clovers! You’ll need the perfect trap with precise calculations and proper engineering-and How to Build a Leprechaun Trap can help!
What’s inside?
15 traps with step-by-step instructions sure to lure in your leprechaun
STEAM Connections exploring the science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics behind each activity
Yummy leprechaun recipes
Exciting bonus activities
Plus space to design your very own trap!
How to Build a Leprechaun Trap gives you all the tools you’ll need to create the perfect trap and put you in a leprechaun-catching mood!
Franki Sparks and the Lucky Charm by Megan Blakemore
Frankie Sparks uses her inventing skills to trap a leprechaun in this fourth chapter book in the STEM inspired Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor series.
It’s springtime in Ms. Cupid’s class, and the entire class is excited to build their very own leprechaun traps. Maybe, if they catch one, they will all get the gift of good luck!
And after a few magical clues, it looks like there might be a leprechaun on the loose in Frankie Sparks’s house! Her best friend, Maya, is convinced the leprechaun exists, but Frankie has her doubts—especially when it feels like every trap she designs fails! Will Frankie and Maya find their lucky charm, or figure out how to create some luck all on their own?
I hope you found these 7 books about St. Patrick’s Day helpful and found some fun books to read with your kids/students. Remember, the goal of the Library Doctor is to help parents raise life-long readers. If you have title suggestions or would like me to write a blog post about a particular topic, please don’t hesitate to email me at admin@thelibrarydoctor.net
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
