Kids' Garden Books
Many of
these books are available inexpensively, gently used, through online bookstores
such as www.amazon.com
You can also find wonderful gardening
books by browsing garden stores, bookstores, thrift shops and garage sales.
Last, but certainly not least, ask
your family, neighbors and friends for "loaners" or gifts! You'd be amazed by
how many resources will come your way, if you just ask!
REFERENCE BOOKS
Last Child in the Woods: Saving
Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Month By Month: Gardening in Nebraska | What to Do
Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year
Melinda Myers
The Vegetable Gardener's BIBLE |
The W-O-R-D System: Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds,
Deep soil
Edward C. Smith
Roots, Shoots, Buckets &
Boots: Activities To Do in the Garden
Sharon Lovejoy
Down & Dirty! 43 Fun &
Funky Projects and Activities to Get You Gardening
Ellen Zachos
Food Plants: Learn About the Many
Different Kinds of Plants We Eat
Britannica Learning Library
Incredible Plants: An
Extraordinary Look From the Inside Out
Inside Guides from DK Publishing
Microlife: An Extraordinary Look
From the Inside Out
Inside Guides from DK Publishing
Amazing Bugs: How Thing Work From
the Inside Out
Inside Guides from DK Publishing
I Love Dirt! 52 Activities to
Help You & Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature
Jennifer Ward
PICTURE BOOKS
How Plants Grow:
Planting a Rainbow
Lois Ehlert
Jack's Garden
Henry Cole
The Tiny Seed
Eric Carle
A Fruit Is a Suitcase For Seeds
Jean Richards
SEEDS
Ken Robbins
Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds On the
Move
JoAnn Early Macken
A Seed Is Sleepy
Dianna Hutts Aston
Colorful Leaves
Maria Fleming / Science Vocabulary Readers,
Scholastic
What Do Roots Do?
Kathleen V. Kudlinski
A Tree For All Seasons
Robin Bernard, National Geographic
Our Apple Tree
Gorel Kristina Naslund
Sunflower House
Eve Bunting
Big Yellow Sunflower
Frances Barry
Sunflower Life Cycle
Jeff Bauer / Science Vocabulary Readers, Scholastic
About Plants:
Light
Eye Know Books from DK Publishing
Plants: Simply Science from
Compass Point Books
Melissa Stewart
A Tree Is a Plant
Clyde Robert Bulla
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring
the Earth to Life
Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm
Garden Creatures:
Butterflies
Emily Neye | All Abord Reading, Preschool-Grade 1,
Scholastic
Butterfly Life Cycle
Jeff Bauer / Science Vocabulary Readers, Scholastic
Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright
Mia Posada
Fantastic Frogs!
Fay Robinson / Scholastic Reader
Ants, Bees, and Other Social
Insects
Kris Hirschmann / World Discovery Science Readers
Mystery of the Missing Fuzzy
Ski Michaels
Wiggling Worms at Work
Wendy Pfeffer
Super Spiders
Jason Blake / Science Vocabulary Readers, Scholastic
Weather/Seasons:
The Cloud Book
Tomie de Paola
Wonders of the Seasons
Keith Brandt
Why Do Seasons Change?
DK Publishing
Fantasy:
The Runaway Garden
Jeffery L. Schatzer
Elizabite: Adventures of a
Carnivorous Plant
H.A. Rey
The Apple-Pip Princess
Jane Ray
Plantzilla
Jerdine Nolen
Tops & Bottoms
Janet Stevens
History/Biography:
Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How
a First Lady Changed America
Kathi Appelt
Growing Seasons
Elsie Lee Splear
Johnny Appleseed
Reeve Lindbergh
The Gardener
Sarah Stewart
Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
Food/Nutrition/Exercise:
The Vegetables We Eat
Gail Gibbons
Why Are Pineapples Prickly? /
Questions Children Ask About Food
DK Publishing
Amazing Apples
Jeff Bauer / Science Vocabulary Readers, Scholastic
Perfect Pumpkins
Jeff Bauer / Science Vocabulary Readers, Scholastic
Good For Me and You
Mercer Mayer
Fast Food
Saxton Freymann
Simply in Season Children's
Cookbook: Fun with Food From Garden to Table
Mark Beach, Julie Kauffman
Environment:
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Old Turtle
Douglas Wood
Weslandia
Paul Fleischman
Earth Explained: A Beginner's
Guide to Our Planet
Barbara Taylor
Multiculturalism:
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A
Message From Chief Seattle (Native American)
Paintings by Susan Jeffers
Josias, Hold the Book (Haiti)
Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren
Flower Garden (African-American)
Eve Bunting
