A challenge for school librarians is providing enough books on all of the holidays throughout the school year. Teachers want to read them to their classes, and students want to check them out.  I never achieved the right balance, therefore, I had to limit everyone to only check out one book about the current holiday so there was at least a chance students might get lucky enough to score a book to take home.  Thankfully everyone understood the limits 🙂

Do you have a favorite book to read to your students?  Please share!

Ten Lucky Leprechauns:  A humorous, rhyming celebration of St. Patrick’s Day counts from one to 10 as one little leprechaun looking for treasure magically becomes 10 silly leprechaun friends at the end of the rainbow!

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The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day:  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?

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The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever!:  Share in this leprechaun family’s charming St. Patrick’s Day celebration, complete with a fun parade and an Irish feast!

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That’s What Leprechauns Do:  The three leprechauns Ari, Boo, and Col have a job to do. They must race to where they’ve buried the pot of gold and dig it up before the rainbow comes. The clouds are already gathering, so there’ll be no time for mischief along the way.

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover:  A twist on the classic tale of “”There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”” takes the story even further as the lady goes about swallowing up a variety of items related to St. Patrick’s Day, including a clover, gold, and a fiddle.

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Green Shamrocks:  Rabbit is growing shamrocks in a pretty yellow pot–he’s getting them ready for St. Patrick’s Day so he can wear them for the parade! When his pot of beautiful green shamrocks goes missing, he goes searching . . . will he find them in time?

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Jamie ORourke and the Big Potato An Irish Folktale:  The laziest man in all of Ireland catches a leprechaun, who offers a potato seed instead of a pot of gold for his freedom.

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Lucky Tucker:  Life is a romp in the park after Tucker, the star of “”Tuckers Spooky Halloween,”” rolls in a bed of four-leaf clovers that happens to belong to a leprechaun. Tucker soon becomes one lucky pup, in this fun picture book.

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The Leprechaun’s Gold:  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.

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St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning:  Jamie seeks a way to prove that he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick’s Day parade.

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The Naughty Leprechaun Story

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It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Dear Dragon:  A boy and his pet dragon celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by finding things that are green.