A taco is the rare dinner a child can assemble, negotiate, and ruin entirely on their own, which is exactly why children’s books cannot leave it alone. It is a fistful of a meal, a Tuesday with a name, and a thing you can safely hand a dragon so long as you keep the spicy salsa well out of reach. Illustrators love it too: nothing else on the table is that easy to draw with a face.
Drawing from Bookroo’s collection of taco books, our editors picked the silly read-alouds families actually shout along to, the early graphic novels that turn a reluctant six-year-old into a reader, two sturdy board books for the smallest hands at the table, and one middle-grade novel about a family taco truck that is worth reading even if nobody in the house is hungry. Start with our fixed shortlist of 12, then browse the rest of the collection by picture book and chapter book below.
Dragons will come to your party for tacos. They will burn your house down for spicy salsa. Read the label.
Pizza and Taco are best friends, right up until the question of who is objectively the best goes to a vote.
Stef is mortified by Tía Perla, her family’s taco truck — right up until the city threatens to shut it down.
The world has run out of tacos, and the dragons are taking a time machine back to fix it.
El Toro and his luchador friends want tacos and are exactly one plan short of affording them.
The nature book says this is a squirrel. The squirrel says his name is Taco, thank you, and he does not eat bark.
A small taco truck loses its parking spot on Union Street to a falafel truck, then to bigger trucks still.
The Dragons Love Tacos dragons, shrunk into a taco-shaped board book for the youngest reader at the table.
A recipe you can actually cook on the page — chop the chicken, mash the avocado, warm the tortillas.
The picture-book version of the internet’s taco song, with new verses and no volume control.
A pack of stray dogs plots to steal a picnic’s worth of tacos and keeps getting derailed by a piñata in a tree.
Taco is supposed to hold everything together. Under enough pressure his shell cracks and the toppings go everywhere.
Taco-night read-alouds, food-truck stories, a taco sing-along, and one small bear working up the courage to try his first taco, for ages 3–8.
Two friends try to throw a party, but things don't go as planned.
Pete's taco plans hit a snag. Can creativity save Taco Tuesday?
Can Baby Bear overcome his fears and try tacos on a trip with Poppa Bear?
Two friends start a rock band and learn what it takes to be successful musicians
Two friends navigate their first day of school with a new student.
Two friends create a comic book together.
Early graphic novels, a stray-dog taco heist, luchadores short on lunch money, and a family taco-truck novel for readers going it alone, ages 5–12.
Foodie friends clash with a video game club. Can they win back their members?
Can Pizza and Taco stay nice enough for Santa Slaw's gift list?
Two friends dive into wrestling, but can they handle the challenge?
