Garden Themed Books
This is a wonderful book that shares just what can go into a compost bin.
The Curious Garden
A little boy seeks to make his community garden more beautiful and over time his garden spreads through out his city.
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting
A little girl and her dad create a wonderful window box garden for the little girl’s mom. What a wondeful surpise.
Counting in the Garden: Hardcover Popular Edition
This is a counting book with wonderful pictures. As you go through the book a new items is added to the garden.
Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books)
All the steps need to grow, harvest and prepare vegetable soup are described in this book.
Green Thumbs: A Kid’s Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening (A Kid’s Guide series)
This book contains wonderful ways to get children into gardening.
How Groundhog’s Garden Grew
Instead of borrowing vegetables from other animal’s gardens Groundhog learns how to grow his own.
Jack’s Garden
This book follows the rhythm of “This Is the House That Jack Built” only this time Jack plants a garden.
One Bean
This book walks you through how a bean grows.
Planting a Rainbow
This wonderfully illustrated book walks you through how many different plants grow. It shares not only planting seeds ,but seedlings and bulbs too.
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
The photos and text in this book walk children through the life cycle of a pumpkin.
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children
How to create 12 themed gardens is shared in this book.
Sunflower House
The life cycle of a sunflower are shared in this wonderful story. Oh! A wonderful sunflower house is shared too.
The Carrot Seed Board Book: 75th Anniversary
Everyone in this book tell a little boy his carrot seed won’t grow. He tends to it and it does grow.
The Gardener
This terrific story features a roof garden created by a little girl visiting family in the big city.
A grandmother and her grandson both choose to garden their own way and end up with a wonderful garden.
Zinnia and her animals create a wonderful place for flowers to bloom.
150 garden projects for children 5-12 are shared in this book. What a wide variety of ideas displayed for you to try!
Every person, animal, and insect that lives and works on the garden in this book things it is theirs. The impact each has on the garden is shared in such a wonderful way in this book.
Rosie has a gift of helping others and tending to not only her bean plant at school, but another student’s. I love this book.
During the summer I will be co-hosting a Dig Into link up on the first Tuesday of the month.
Hi, if you were to choose just one of those books for a three-year-old boy who loves gardening, which one would it be? I’m going to have a look through my local library’s catalogue anyway and see if I can find any. Thanks for recommendations.
This is a fantastic list! Very thorough! I’m going to refer back to it this summer as I choose books for my kids. 🙂
Great list!! I know a few of those! I LOVE “Planting a Rainbow”!!–Lisa
these are perfect for our upcoming gardening project. alot of these i’ve never heard before… awesome to find new books. pinned it 🙂
What a nice list you’ve compiled here. Perfect reading for kids in spring and summer.
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This is a great list! Pinned it!
These books sound like a great way to get kids involved in gardening 🙂
I love seeing all these garden books for children! A child who gardens will grow up loving nature. 🙂
Thanks for the great list! I am the school liason for our learning garden at school and have been piling garden books for a while to use in my lessons. Just pinned it!
What a great list! My grandchildren love digging in the garden and they will love reading these.! I’m bookmarking this post for an article.
I’m so happy you are running with the Summer Reading Club theme! I can’t wait to see what you do and maybe use some new ideas for my summer program. I’m having a children’s garden club this year, which is new to me. Thank you!
This is so fun. Yes, the rain hasn’t been so conducive to gardening, although it is hopefully helping my plants that are already up. I’ll try to link up at some point – the boys are involved in every aspect of our garden 🙂
I am SO EXCITED that you posted this!!!!
Yay… Thanks
My belated thanks for including COMPOST STEW in this lovely patch of garden-themed books for kids! So many wonderful ways to dig in… and enjoy!
Another book for your list is OUR SCHOOL GARDEN! by Rick Swann, published by Readers to Eaters, 2012. The book ties into school curriculum all year long.
“Our School Garden! draws upon the best parts of what a school garden can be–a place to spark curiosity, explore, work hard, laugh, make friends and deepen academic learning. This book would complement any library for students who are learning where food comes from.”
—Kyle Cornforth, Director, Edible Schoolyard Berkeley
http://www.readerstoeaters.com/books/our-school-garden/