In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share some of my favorite kids books about nature. In no particular order, here’s our current favorite titles:

Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers - I’ve talked about this book many, many times on our Instagram because it really is that good. Apple TV+ even just made it into a 36 minute movie that I highly recommend. This book tells the story of what it means to be human and live on the planet earth. It talks about how big the universe is and how we’re all connected. It’s a really great message and Oliver Jeffers’ illustration style is so beautiful you could pull any page out and frame it.
We Are The Gardeners by Joanna Gaines - This book tells the story of The Gaines family (aka the Fixer Upper/Magnolia family) learning to garden together. They start with a few single plants, have some obstacles like overwatering and plants dying and eventually create a big, beautiful garden. We’re currently planting our garden for the summer so it’s great reading this with my daughter especially after some critters ate our first few plants (which happens in the book as well).
The Honeybee by Kristen Hall - I love this informative book about the life of bees. It’s amazing how much you learn from kids books! We’ve been taking this book out to our front yard a lot the last few weeks and reading it while watching the bees buzz around.
Hike by Pete Oswald - I got this for my daughter’s easter basket and I’m really in love with this book! It’s by one of my favorite illustrators, Pete Oswald, so not only are the pictures beautiful, but the story is totally open ended with no words. I love books without words because it really allows you to create a dialogue and call out different elements as you and your kiddo notice new things with every subsequent read.
Hello Hello by Brendan Wenzel - Every page in this book is stunning and shows diverse and opposite animals - big animals and small animals, brightly colored animals and black and white animals, animals with huge ears and animals with small ears, etc. We actually brought this book into our daughter’s preschool class to read and her classmates loved it. Brendan Wenzel has a new book, A Stone Sat Still, which is described as “an environmental and nature book for kids” of which we’re also fans. We just lent it to a neighbor or else it would be included in this post, but you will see it next week when I talk about one of our favorite quarantine activities - book swaps!

And here are a few that I haven’t read yet but I’m excited to check out once the library opens again:

Green on Green by Dianne White - A child’s journey through the seasons.
Sometimes Rain by Meg Flemming - A story about having fun no matter what the weather.
Thank you, Garden by Liz Garton Scanlon - A story surrounding a community garden.

Happy reading!

-Callie

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