Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day:
Suggested Reading
Add some fun literature study and stories to your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations!
'Hooray for St. Patrick's Day - Lift the Flap Book' (Puffin Books) by Joan Holub, Paul Meisel (Illustrator)
It's Saint Patrick's Day, and time to join in the celebration. Children can lift the flaps for interactive fun as they see the children in this book make holiday crafts, taste traditional Irish food, perform a play about Saint Patrick, and even march in a Saint Patrick's Day parade. As an added bonus, they can search for the hidden leprechaun on each spread. A great way for young readers to learn about and enjoy the holiday. – amazon description
'St. Patrick's Day' by Gail Gibbons
Through Gibbons's characteristic simple text and bright, basic illustrations, young children learn about Saint Patrick's life, traditional Irish symbols such as the shamrock and shillelagh, and some of the past and present ways of celebrating this holiday. An illustrated appendix lists folk legends about Saint Patrick. -- Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc.
'Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs: The Story of the St. Patrick's Day Symbols' by Edna Barth, Ursula Arndt (Illustrator)
'St. Patrick's Day in the Morning' by Eve Bunting, Jan Brett (Illustrator)
'St. Patrick's Day Alphabet' by Beverly Barras Vidrine, Patrick Soper (Illustrator)
'The Wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick's Day' by Mike Cronin, Daryl Adair
'Crafts for St. Patrick's Day' (Holiday Crafts for Kids) by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm (Illustrator)
'A Leprechaun's St. Patrick's Day' by Sarah Kirwan Blazek, James Rice (Illustrator)
'St. Patrick's Day Shamrocks' (Holiday Symbols) by Mary Berendes
'Let's Celebrate St. Patrick's Day: A Book of Drawing Fun' by Pamela Johnson
'Jeremy Bean's St. Patrick's Day' by Alice Schertle, Linda Shute (Illustrator)
'The St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Mystery' by Marion M. Markham, Karen A. Jerome (Illustrator)
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