The Winter Olympic Games are held every four years for sports that are practiced on snow and ice. Here are some of our favorite children’s picture books about winter olympics. This is the perfect time to talk with your child about what sports are played during the Winter Olympics and follow along from home with your learn about the worlds most talented athletics from all over the globe!
Here’s some of my favorite Winter Sports books to celebrate the Winter Olympics!
Winter Olympics are on their way and it’s time to prepare our kids for all the amazing winter sports they will discover this year in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy. They are from February 6 through February 22r so now’s the time to start grabbing books to prepare our children through literature.
I took a little trip to the library to start finding out what options are available with books and discovered there are not that many in my local library. I have quite a few of these on hold and can’t wait for them to come in. Plus I’ve selected a couple on Amazon
to buy.
Here are some of the Olympic Books I can’t wait to share with my kids.
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Winter Olympics Themed Books
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Non Fiction Books about the Winter Olympics
I encourage you to read several non-fiction books with your child during the Olympics it’s creating an opportunity for many teachable moments for your child. If you’re lucky enough you may live in a place where you’d get to also go out and experience these Winter Olympic Sports.
Which sport do you think will be your child’s favorite to discover?
Story Books about Winter Olympics Sports
There are so many Fiction books I can’t wait for my child to experience. I’m sure many will also be great story prompts for our writing as well. Penguins, Camels, Rhinos, Dinosaurs you name it you can find books with Winter Sports and a variety of characters.
The Winter Olympics are less that a month away! Are your children ready to experience memories of a lifetime? Which Gold Medalist do you think the will remember? Do you have a specific Sport you want to make sure they watch with you?
The Olympics provide so many teachable moments for learning about our world as well as we teach our children about diversity and raising Global Kids.
Want to learn how to create art with chalk pastels for the olympics? Here’s how to sign up for this Winter Games Art Course with You Are An Artist.
Here are a few resources to get you started. ›We’ll be pinning all month long resources we find onto our Olympic Pinterest Board. If you have one please share it in the comments below!
Here are a few resources to get you started. ›We’ll be pinning all month long resources we find onto our Olympic Pinterest Board. If you have one please share it in the comments below!
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My kids adore Callie Cat Ice Skater this year. I think it is simply marvelous because she doesn't "win" the competition, but finds the name for the pure, melting sweetness she feels when she skates.
Love ice skating. What a great set of books for the kids to enjoy while the olympics are happening. Thanks so much for sharing with us at the #homeschoollinkup!
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Thanks! This is a great list! I was able to find several of these at our library. We love the Tacky the Penguin series anyway, but haven't read this one yet. Looking forward to it.
We love your list of winter sports books. Great ideas! Thanks for gathering and sharing the information. We have linked to your blog on our post about getting kids excited for the Winter Games.
http://sassafraspaper.blogspot.com/2014/01/everything-you-need-to-excite-kids-for.html
I remember looking for winter Olympics books 4 years ago, and they were so hard to find. Now there are so many! Great post and thanks for sharing with Afterschool!
Great collection! Thanks for sharing with After School!
As both a teacher and a mom this is an awesome list! Thanks so much for sharing!
This is a great list! I'd love it if you'd come and share it at Booknificent Thursday today at Mommynificent.com!
Tina