Explore our curated selection of Earth Day books for kids! Encourage environmental awareness and creativity with stories that spark a love for nature.
Planting Seeds of Change: Earth Day Books for Kids
I love incorporating beautiful living picture books into our homeschool whenever I can. Earth Day is an awesome time to do just that! So many of these books are favorites for any time of year, but are perfect during spring or for science as well.
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story
From the time she was a young girl, Anna Comstock was fascinated by the natural world. In following her passion, this remarkable woman blazed a trail for female scientists today.
Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement
As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental movement.
A Little More Beautiful
Lou Alice is determined to leave each day a little more beautiful than she found it. But when she moves away from her little house, no one in town notices she’s gone. No one, that is, except a little girl, who sets out to carry on Lou Alice’s work.
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth
Teach kids to compost and help them develop life-long habits to protect the Earth. From apple cores to zinnia heads, readers will discover the best ingredients for a successful compost pile in this fun picture book perfect for Earth Day!
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Young Reader’s Edition
This is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
The Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.
The Berenstain Bears Go Green
Can the Berenstain Bears find a pollution solution before their beloved county is filled with garbage?
The Lorax
Celebrate Earth Day with Dr. Seuss and the Lorax in this classic picture book about sustainability and protecting the environment!
Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
Green grass is wide and fresh and clean for a family to play in, and brown dirt is perfect for digging a garden. But when gray buildings start to rise up and a whole city builds, can there be any room for green space?
We Are Water Protectors
We Are Water Protectors, issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―inviting young readers everywhere to join the fight.
Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle
A picture about the water cycle? Oh, but this one is a delight! Your older kids will be delighted by the many surprising ways water shows up in our lives.
The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute
This classic Berenstain Bears story is a perfect way to teach children about caring for the planet!
The Seeking Tree
A magical story to showcase the beauty of animals, nature, and our Earth. Each page is beautifully illustrated.
My Friend Earth
Perfect for Earth Day—and every day!—this spectacular picture book is a valentine to our wonderful planet from the Newbery Award–winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall.
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