The 20 Best Read Aloud St. Patrick’s Day Books for Kids

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Looking for the best St. Patrick’s Day books to read aloud for kids to celebrate and learn more about St. Patrick’s Day? Here are our most favorite toddler, preschool, elementary age St. Patrick’s Day books to check out from the library or purchase for your home library!

We love reading books every day in our house, and we really love checking out new books for different holidays coming up or topics we are learning about.

With each new holiday or preschool topic, I like to change out the books on our front facing bookshelf to offer a new selection of great books related to that holiday or preschool lesson. This allows us to casually enjoy learning more and celebrating the holiday throughout the week.

We are big fans of our local library and have found it to be a wonderful resource to find new books. I especially love being able to search the online system and put books on hold to quickly pick up when we go. This has been a great way for us to enjoy new books for free!

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, we are planning which books to read this year, and I wanted to share a great list of St. Patrick’s Day books with you to enjoy in your home, as well.

Check out our list of the best St. Patrick’s Day books for kids of all ages!

The 20 Best St. Patrick’s Day Books for Kids

You'll love this awesome list of the best St. Patrick's Day books to read aloud for kids to celebrate and learn more about the holiday!

You can check these out from your local library – I would suggest doing so early before they all get checked out, grab from a used book website like abebooks.com, or purchase new for a fun surprise for the kids!

Enjoy learning more about St. Patrick’s Day and celebrating the holiday with books!

Along with reading books, try these simple activities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with kids:

Print shamrocks and hide them around the house for the kids to find
Find or create simple coloring pages for kids to color
Create a simple craft together
Enjoy a fun snack of green foods and drinks
Make a homemade cookie cake and decorate it with green icing and fun sprinkles
Build your own pretend leprechaun traps
Go outside and see who can find a four-leaf clover, then practice drawing them

We love to do simple activities to celebrate holidays but I find we learn the most about a holiday by reading interesting books!

The 20 Best St. Patrick’s Day Books for Kids:

Check out this fun list of children’s books all about St. Patricks’ Day!

1. The Story of Saint Patrick’s Day

I love this collection of board books that tell the stories behind the holidays. Kids will learn why we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day after reading this great book about the life and story of Patrick the Saint.

This board book has sturdy pages and is the perfect length for toddlers and preschoolers ages 2-5 years old.

Start an annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration and include this informative book!

Get The Story of Saint Patrick’s Day here.

2. The Berenstain Bears’ St. Patrick’s Day

Join the Berenstain Bears for St. Patrick’s Day in this fun story that teaches about St. Patrick’s Day traditions.

Get The Berenstain Bears’ St. Patrick’s Day here.

3. The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day

Here’s a fun and silly picture book to read aloud with the kids!

The Night before St. Patrick’s Day, two kids are setting traps to catch a leprechaun. They wake up to a surprise and then try to find his pot of gold!

Get The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day here.

4. Ten Lucky Leprechauns

Here’s a cute story for kids working on counting!

Count along with the leprechauns and find ten silly leprechaun friends at the end of a rainbow.

Get Ten Lucky Leprechauns here.

5. Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola

Inspired by an Irish folktale, Jamie grows the largest potato in the world that grows a little too big to handle. This one is a classic and very entertaining family read aloud book!

Get Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato here.

6. The Littlest Leprechaun

This fun picture book comes with stickers that kids will love as you read about a little leprechaun who finds his way to help his leprechaun family out on St. Patrick’s Day!

Get The Littlest Leprechaun here.

7. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover!

Another silly story from the old lady collection! This time she is swallowing things to make a perfect rainbow to hide a pot of gold.

Get There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! here.

8. Five Little Leprechauns

This board book is a fun twist on “Five Little Monkeys” – lots of fun rhyming text about leprechauns hiding in clover and rainbows.

A fun one for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration!

Get Five Little Leprechauns here.

9. How to Catch a Leprechaun

The How to Catch series is so fun – this one is all about catching a leprechaun with traps of shamrocks, pots of gold, and rainbows!

Such a fun read aloud with fun rhymes and beautiful illustrations!

Get How to Catch a Leprechaun here.

10. Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase

This fun Pete the Cat book includes 12 St. Patrick’s Day cards, a fold out poster, and stickers – so fun!

Get Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase here.

11. Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk

Here’s a fun classic Irish legend tale to read aloud as a family. This one is all about Tim looking to make a fortune with the help of some leprechauns.

Get Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk here.

12. The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever

Read about this leprechaun family’s fun St. Patrick’s Day complete with a St. Patrick’s Day parade and an Irish feast!

The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day ever has fun and engaging rhyming text and beautiful illustrations!

Get The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever here.

13. St. Patrick’s Day by Gail Gibbons

Here’s a great non fiction book all about St. Patrick’s Day – the story of Saint Patrick, legends about the saint, and the history of the Irish holiday.

This is a perfect book to read about the true history and meaning of the holiday! I would highly recommend this one as part of your St. Patrick’s Day tradition and celebration time!

Get St. Patrick’s Day by Gail Gibbons here.

14. Fiona’s Luck

Here’s a great book for older kids – this one is all about a greedy leprechaun king taking all the good luck from the Irish people, and a brave girl named Fiona fighting to win the luck back.

Get Fiona’s Luck here.

15. O’Sullivan Stew

This one is great for elementary age kids. Kate O’Sullivan tries to save the day after a horse is stolen in her village.

Get O’Sullivan Stew here.

16. That’s What Leprechauns Do

Leprechauns may hide a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but they can also get into lots of mischief! Follow along with this mischievous leprechaun!

Enjoy this fun story book with preschoolers and little kids!

Get That’s What Leprechauns Do here.

17. Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland

Here’s a great book to really learn the history of Saint Patrick. This beautiful picture book tells about the life of Saint Patrick and the legends about the Saint.

Get Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland here.

18. The Leprechaun’s Gold

Here’s a classic St. Patrick’s Day book to read with your kids about clever Tom!

The synopsis from Amazon:

“In this classic Irish legend, two harpists—merry-hearted Old Pat and ill-spirited Young Tom—set off for a contest to name the finest harpist in all of Ireland. When Young Tom realizes that Old Pat is truly the better musician, he schemes to be the winner—but he doesn’t reckon with the clever trickery of a mischievous little leprechaun.”

Get The Leprechaun’s Gold here.

19. St. Patrick’s Day Activity Book for Kids 4-8: Coloring, Dot-to-Dot, Mazes, Puzzles and More

This would be fun to surprise the kids with!

Get St. Patrick’s Day Activity Book here.

20. I Spy St. Patrick’s Day! Counting, Shape and Color Games for Toddlers and Preschoolers: St Patricks Day Activity Book for Kids Ages 2-5 and Babies

Your young kids will love these activities to go along with their learning about St. Patrick’s Day!

Get I Spy St. Patrick’s Day! Counting, Shape and Color Games for Toddlers and Preschoolers here.

There you have it – the 20 best St. Patrick’s Day books for kids of all ages!

Grab a few from your local library and set up a basket with St. Patrick’s Day books to read throughout the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day.

You could also create a frugal basket with a new book, some coloring sheets, and stickers to enjoy together!

Make a fun holiday with new books to read and a simple activity like:

making a fun green dessert together
creating shamrock art to decorate with
baking homemade sugar cookies with green icing or sprinkles
having a simple St. Patrick’s Day party at home with a decorated table, a movie, and snacks

You don’t have to go all out to have a fun holiday – just pick a couple things to do and you’ll have so much fun – and lots of fun memories!

Looking for a fun and simple St. Patrick’s Day activity for toddlers or preschool activities to do together?

I’ve been having so much fun doing preschool lessons with my daughter. We love learning about all the holidays especially!

So, with St. Patrick’s Day coming up soon, I created these six pages of simple St. Patrick’s Day printables and wanted to share them with you, so you can use them with your toddler or preschool child!