Enjoy Autumn Picture Books! A Collection of Ideas to Read with Your 5-Year-Old
Autumn picture books to enjoy with five-year-olds are filled with heartwarming charm.
As the leaves change color and the nights under the moon grow longer, it’s the perfect time for read-aloud sessions.
Through picture books, you can share moments that let you feel the changing seasons and the wonders of nature together—creating precious memories with children.
Here, we introduce autumn picture books that you can enjoy with five-year-olds.
Spending time with rich, seasonally themed picture books is also a wonderful opportunity to nurture children’s imagination.
Enjoy autumn to the fullest while answering their curious “Why?” and “How come?” questions!
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Enjoy Autumn Picture Books! Ideas to Read with 5-Year-Olds (11–20)
Goma and Kinako’s Sweet Potato Digging
This picture book, portraying Goma and Kinako—the best-friend Shiba Inus—heading out to dig sweet potatoes, is a perfect autumn read.
Watching the two pack their backpacks with a water bottle, plastic bags for the potatoes, and work gloves so their hands won’t hurt will make kids want to get ready along with them.
On the big day, when they say, “We won’t lose!” and challenge each other to a potato-digging contest, children might be inspired to dig their hardest to find the biggest potato of all.
Read the book to find out what kind of potatoes they unearth.
By the end, you’ll definitely be craving roasted sweet potatoes!
Akino’s Fluttering Magic!
Magic tricks are often performed as entertainment at children’s events.
Kids are captivated by the wonders happening right before their eyes.
In this picture book, a magician and an assistant lose their way in a haunted forest.
Unable to find the exit, they wander around and start performing magic to ease their loneliness.
Then, in a curious turn, autumn fruits begin transforming one after another! It’s a page-turner that makes you excited to see what they’ll turn into next.
Be sure to check whether the magicians make it safely out of the forest, too.
Delicious-looking moon viewing
Children have such rich imaginations, don’t they? Even as adults, many of you probably saw all kinds of shapes in the clouds when you were kids.
In this picture book, the shapes of the moon inspire delicious food ideas.
Oranges, watermelons, donuts, takoyaki—there are so many round and tasty things, aren’t there? While reading this book aloud, be sure to ask the children what they see.
You’ll surely hear a flurry of wonderful answers.
And don’t forget to enjoy the moon’s own natural beauty, too.
Drawing with fallen leaves
We’d like to introduce a picture book that lets you freely enjoy drawing with autumn leaves.
Gathering and arranging leaves, and creating pictures that make use of their colors and shapes are depicted with gentle words and warm illustrations.
As children engage with nature, they expand their imagination and learn the joy of expression and the feel of working with their hands.
It’s perfect for reading together as a family, or for experiencing the world of the book outdoors while playing with fallen leaves—an ideal way to savor the season.
A book that lets both adults and children share the excitement of autumn.
The moon just has to be perfectly round!
The moon changes its appearance as it waxes and wanes.
In this picture book, a slender crescent moon appears.
Seeing it, an old woman declares, “The moon has to be nice and round!” and starts feeding it all sorts of things: vegetable soup, pizza, pasta, cream puffs…
Because the moon doesn’t quickly become round, she keeps cooking more and more dishes.
Thanks to her efforts, the moon gradually plumps up.
Will it become as perfectly round as the full moon on the night of the harvest moon?
Kumakuma-kun’s Halloween
This is a Halloween lift-the-flap book that even infants and toddlers can enjoy.
It seems that a little bear has wandered into a haunted house.
No one’s supposed to be there, but you can hear voices, and it feels like someone’s watching… As you read, you’ll want to imagine how fast the bear’s heart is pounding.
Also, when you slide the mechanisms, the pictures move, so look forward to seeing how the illustrations change.
The artwork is cute and the colors are vibrant, so you can soak up the fun Halloween atmosphere.
Enjoy Autumn Picture Books! Ideas to Read with 5-Year-Olds (21–30)
Kuma-kun and Little Kuma’s Sweet Potato Digging
A perfect autumn story about a bear parent and child digging sweet potatoes in a fall field.
It gently portrays the joy of digging in the soil to find warm, cozy sweet potatoes and the fun of working together, accompanied by soft, friendly illustrations.
Written in simple language that even small children can understand, it’s ideal for reading at nursery school, kindergarten, or at home with a parent and child, helping readers feel the warmth of nature and the seasons.
After finishing, it leaves you thinking, “I want to do that together again,” warming the heart.
A recommended book for those who want to enjoy autumn activities and parent–child time.