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Spring Book Lists for Preschool and Elementary Kids: Garden Adventures around the World

March 24, 2016 By Deb Chitwood 4 Comments

Are you looking for great spring books for kids? Spring is a wonderful time for garden adventures, both in the backyard and in books. You’ll find spring book lists here of favorite garden books for ages 3-5 and 6-10. Of course, the ages will often overlap and vary according to each unique child.

Spring Book Lists for Preschool and Elementary Kids - Garden Adventures around the World

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Spring Book List: Children’s Books with Garden Adventures for Ages 3-5

One Child, One Seed: A South African Counting Book by Kathryn Cave (Author), Gisèle Wulfsohn (Photographer)


A counting book about a child planting a pumpkin seed in South Africa. The book tells the story of a seed along with sharing the culture of a child in rural South Africa. (Recommended for ages 3-7.)

The Flower Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta (Author), Leslie Evans (Illustrator)

This beautifully illustrated book can be used to combine a study of flowers around the world with letter work. (Recommended for ages 4-8.)

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow (based on the Magic School Bus Books by Joanna Cole

A Magic School Bus book is always an adventure … and one loved by many children. Again, this wasn’t written by Joanna Cole, the original author of the Magic School Bus books. I think those are the best. But the books based on the television series are still great for young children. This one goes inside a flowering plant to give young children a fun way to learn about plants. (Recommended for ages 4-8.)

The Empty Pot by Demi

This tale from China has glowing illustrations, gardening inspiration, and a clear moral to the story. (Recommended for ages 4 on up.)

Don’t forget preschool classics The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle, Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (which includes the tale of Frog giving Toad seeds to grow a garden when Toad admires Frog’s flowers), and, of course, Peter Rabbit by English author Beatrix Potter.

Spring Book List: Children’s Books with Garden Adventures for Ages 6-10

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt

This is the type of book that can help spark an interest in fine art. It’s a combination of fiction and biographical fact in which a girl from Paris becomes friends with a gardener (who she later learns is the garden’s owner, Claude Monet) in Giverny, a few miles from Paris. The book includes reproductions by author-illustrator Laurence Anholt of Monet’s famous waterlilies painting, which Monet completed in his garden at Giverny. (Recommended for ages 6-9, although many preschoolers will love the story, too.)

A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston (Author) and Sylvia Long (Illustrator).


The illustrations of a wide variety of seeds in this book are gorgeous, making it a wonderful addition to a study of seeds and plants around the world. (Recommended for ages 5-10.)

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Miss Rumphius wanted to travel the world and make the world more beautiful. The lupines along the coast of Maine are from seeds scattered by the real Miss Rumphius. (Recommended for ages 5-8.)

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola

This lovely book is about Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. It tells about her native Kenya and how she returned home and brought back the trees and gardens. (Recommended for ages 5-8.)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This classic book is timeless. It tells the story of a young girl on the Yorkshire moors of England, discovering and bringing a secret garden back to life. (Recommended for ages 7-12.)

 And check out Mud Pies and Other Recipes by Marjorie Winslow. While not a classic garden book, it encourages children to go outdoors and enjoy imaginative adventures in their own backyards and gardens, creating “dishes” their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents may have enjoyed creating as children.

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  1. Lady Lilith says

    March 27, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    These books look really nice. I bet the kids would love to have them read to them.

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  2. Mother of 3 says

    March 28, 2016 at 4:19 pm

    Such wonderful suggestions. I can’t wait to try some of these out with my youngest son.

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  3. Megan says

    March 29, 2016 at 12:53 pm

    Pinning this for use in my home preschool. Thanks for the ideas. 🙂

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  4. Leslie says

    March 30, 2016 at 7:34 am

    Such fun books! The Secret Garden was one of my childhood favorites. The Empty Pots is one of my current favorites. Thanks for sharing!

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