It’s the time of year when things are starting to bloom and grow again! So we are celebrating with this new batch of garden books for kids! These children’s books about plants, gardens, critters, and greenhouses are sure to inspire little ones to take a closer look at the things growing around them!

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Garden Friends

Written by Eric Carle

This adorable touch and feel book uses simple text and colorful illustrations to explore the different critters and animals living in and around gardens. Each two page spread focuses on a different creature, with a small portion of each illustration cut out to reveal a different texture. The text encourages kids to make noises or complete actions like the featured creature, but the illustrations feature a variety of other creatures to explore as well.

Plants

Written by Kathryn WIlliaims

This early reader from National Geographic Kids features a “You Read, I Read” text style, encouraging adults to share the reading with beginning readers. Each page features a section for older readers to read, as well as a section for younger readers. The text features lots of interesting facts about plants and how they grow, while the brightly colored photographs show incredible details. There are also lots of nonfiction text features for kids to explore, including labeled diagrams, captions, and interactive pages.

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My Baba’s Garden

Written by Jordan Scott and illustrated by Sydney Smith

This lyrical picture book follows a young boy as he visits with his grandmother and tends the garden with her. They collect worms and place them in the garden to help the plants grow. When his grandmother moves in with them and no longer has her garden, he plants some seeds in a pot in her window for her. This is a beautiful story that highlights the connection between generations and the power of growing things together. The lush illustrations tell a lot of the story, celebrating the love between grandmother and grandson.

Joy Takes Root

Written by Gwendolyn Wallace and illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin

Joy is a young girl spending her first summer in her grandmother’s garden. As she and her grandmother tend to the plants, Joy learns that plants can be food and medicine, and can also connect us to loved ones and ancestors. The text is full of beautiful messages about gardening and connection, while the colorful illustrations show the beautiful relationship between grandmother and granddaughter, and the colorful garden they grow together.

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Good Things

Written by Maryah Greene and illustrated by Alleanna Harris

This touching story follows a young boy named Malcolm as he cares for plants with his father. Together, they watch their plants grow and his father imparts the lesson that “good things take time”. When his father unexpectedly passes away, Malcolm feels overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for the plants on his own. But he decides to pay homage to his father by caring for the plants and using the lessons he taught him. The back of the book includes lots of information about plants and definitions for plant terms used in the book.

Logan’s Greenhouse

Written by JaNay Brown-Wood and illustrated by Samara Hardy

In this story, a young boy named Logan is preparing for a pet playdate with his friends. He wants to serve carrots, but he needs help finding them in the greenhouse. Throughout the book, the text offers hints about carrots and asks if the plant on the page is a carrot. Kids will enjoy deciding whether each page has carrots on it, while also learning interesting facts about lots of other vegetables. The back of the book includes a recipe for Winter Carrot Soup using the vegetables featured in the book.

Don’t Touch that Flower!

Written by Alice Hemming and illustrated by Nicola Slater

This sweet follow up to The Leaf Thief follows the adorable Squirrel as he finds a flower at the start of Spring and decides to claim it as his own. Throughout the book, he attempts to protect the little flower, but Bird informs him of all the things that his flower actually needs to survive. The brightly colored illustrations and hilarious banter between Squirrel and Bird are sure to entertain young readers, and the back of the book includes more information on flowers and what they need.

What are your favorite new garden books for kids? Share them in the comments below!

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