Celebrate Earth Day with Children’s Books
Celebrate Earth Day with these delightful Children’s Books!
Earth Day is a wonderful chance to talk to your kids about the importance of the environment.
Be sure to check out our extensive book lists for kids!
You can find these earth day books at your local library or purchase through the affiliate links provided for your convenience.
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Read about Earth Day!
It’s easy to celebrate Earth Day with Children’s books.
Children are curious about their world.
Once you start a conversation, they may just not stop talking!
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Celebrate Earth Day with Children's Books
Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth’s natural beauty.
While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it.
As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.
This colorful, insightful story, demystifies for children what it means to be green by helping them to view everyday tasks through an environmentally-friendly lens.
The book empowers children to do whatever they can to protect the earth’s precious resources.
The girl in this book grows chocolate rabbits, tomatoes as big as beach balls, flowers that change color, and seashells in her garden.
It’s April 22, and Lion and his friends want to plant trees, recycle bottles, and have fun on Earth Day.
But not Monkey. He wants to celebrate his birthday.
Can he convince the other animals that it really is his birthday?
Violet Kim’s humorous artwork, rendered in paper, photographs, and colored pencil, highlight the sunny, friendly world of the animals.
Children and adults will delight in Earth Day, a litany of gratitude that celebrates earth’s diverse species, from apricots to groundhogs to junebugs, from quahogs to zinnias, zucchini and zebras with bright and whimsical illustrations.
In alphabetical order, the wonders of nature arise from the page, reminding readers that every day is a reason to give thanks and that miracles are as simple as ABC.
The author and artist Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate her gorgeous picture book.
One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree.
While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how “all living things depend on one another” . . . and it works.
With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitivity, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture book.
Featuring a circular die-cut Earth on the cover, and printed entirely with recycled materials and nontoxic soy inks, this book includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good – from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways.
Follow an eco-conscious super hero as he teaches kids how to recycle and reuse common household items!
The six large flaps throughout show that ordinary trash is really a treasure.
From turning old clothes into fun costumes or an old box into a brand new car, kids will learn that saving the environment is super cool!
After watching a film about climate changes at school, Little Critter decides to do his part to slow down global warming.
With the help of his family and friends, Little Critter begins to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Together they learn about the importance of not wasting water or energy.
Join Little Critter as he plants a tree, makes a climate control machine, and helps the polar bears.
After Charlie convinces Lola to recycle her old toys instead of throwing them away, Lola discovers a recycling competition.
If she can recycle one hundred plastic, metal, and paper items, she can get her very own real live tree to plant. But she only has two weeks, so Lola decides to ask her classmates to help.
They turn out to be extremely very good recyclers indeed.
Read about the history of Earth Day from the first celebration back in 1970, to today’s annual observance on April 22.
An all-new Clifford adventure finds the big red dog hard at work getting the house clean, or trying to, as he shakes to pieces Emily Elizabeth’s rugs and digs up weeds at a vacant lot for Earth Day.
This lively and informative book explains the process of recycling from start to finish.
Recycle! focuses on five different types of rubbish: paper, glass, aluminum cans, plastic and polystyrene.
This behind-the-scenes look at recycling offers fascinating facts and helpful tips for cleaning up our environment.
More Earth Day Fun!
Don't let the fun and learning stop here!
Enjoy these additional engaging Earth Day activities with your kiddos!
Recycling Activities for Kids
Use these fun and educational recycling unit study resources in the classroom or your home.
Any time of year is the perfect time to start teaching children about reducing waste and recycling.
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XOXO, Mandi @ All My Happy Endings
So glad you’ve joined. I’m heading over to your blog now.
great list! will have to check some of those out!
i can’t read the giving tree without crying, and my kids know it!
have a great weekend!
Ha! We have a couple of books that I can’t help but cry at, too.
Hi I love your blog!! I am visiting from the blog hop and wanted to say a quick hello!! I’ll be visiting regularly now!
Melissa
you can also find me at Storybookfelts.blogspot.com
I’m so glad you’re a reader now. And I hope you found a new children’s book favorite on this list 🙂
Such a great list of books. Earth day! 🙂 love it
Glad you liked the list. I hope you found a new children’s book favorite.
Thanks for sharing this great list! 🙂
Glad you liked the list. I hope you found a new favorite.
Books are always a great way to introduce your child to any topic! I love that Mom’s & Dad’s are starting their kid’s young on being GREEN and learning about our planet!
i agree. The earlier we start, the more kids will understand and naturally treat the earth carefully.
These look like books children would really be excited to read which is always a good thing. I love the idea of educating children through stories. Such a great cause.
Reading offers a terrific way of learning and sparking their imagination.
Wonderful reading for Earth Day!! Thanks for the reminder and wonderselection of books!
We read these books year round. Hope you found a new favorite.
Thank you for sharing, I am always on the hunt for new books for the kids.
I hope you found some new books that you’ll all enjoy. We personally love all of the books I listed.
Would love to buy the Curious Garden. These are good selections.
The Curious Garden is one of my son’s favorites. Definitely get it for your own kid 🙂
I love this list! I have always believed reading is essential not just for knowledge but for fun too.
I agree. Reading should be fun and spark the imagination.
These are great. Thanks for the suggestions. It’s nice to learn about new books for my kids that also have a good message.
We read these books all year round. I hope you found a new one you an enjoy with your kids.
Awesome list. Thanks so much for including it. Shared it around a few places. 🙂
Thanks for sharing it. We all personally love these books and was happy to let others know about these books.
Hi Jenny,
My Monday hop is live now and I would love to see one of your awesome posts linked up @ http://theseamanmom.blogspot.com/2013/04/smiles_15.html, if you’re interested in blog hops.
Have a happy week.
I love books and so is my son, thank you for sharing this great collection of yours
Glad you like the collection.
This is a great list, and a fun way to celebrate Earth Day!
Glad you like the list. We all love these books 🙂
Thanks so much for linking up, Jenny, I truly appreciate that. I’m looking forward to see you on the next hop and if you’d like to get e-mail reminders from me, please subscribe to my hop @ http://blogspot.us4.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=86c5eea2f9d691e2f5b321f18&id=0d6371dc2b
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Glad to link up. Thanks for visiting!
Hi I just found you and wanted to invite you to a book hop this list would be so helpful to moms! My book hop is open Thursday morning, if you are interested in joining, I’d love to have you!
http://forfunreadinglist.blogspot.com
Thanks for letting me know about your bloghop. I’ll go check it out 🙂
Thanks for this great list of books for Earth Day! I’ll be checking out some of these to read with my kids.
I do hope you do. We read these all year round.. not just Earth Day.
I love childrens books. Great list. Stopped by from the bloggy moms april blog hop.
Thanks for visiting 🙂
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Thanks for the wonderful feedback. Going to go check out your blog now.
I love the selection of the kids books. My Garden is my favorite.
Mharms
What a great list! The Curious Garden is one of my family’s absolute favorites. It’s such a joy and I’m so happy to see it on your list!
Thank you for linking up with The Children’s Bookshelf.
The Curious Garden is one of our absolute favorites, too 🙂
Thanks for linking up at What’d You Do This Weekend. Hope to see you next week.
Linda
Glad to link up. Thanks for visiting 🙂
What a wonderful list. The Kapok Tree really takes my fancy. Thanks for linking in to the Kid Lit Blog Hop.
Ooo. The Kapok Tree is an absolute favorite. I feel like we read it about every other week 🙂
I love The Curious Garden, as well as it’s real-life inspiration, High Line Park. Thanks for sharing at The Children’s Bookshelf.
My son doesn’t know about the High Line Park but absolutely loved The Curious Garden.
We love so many of these books! Thanks for sharing on the blog hop 🙂
-Reshama
http://www.stackingbooks.com
So glad to share 🙂 We really do love all of these books.
We love Lorax. Great list! Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library. You are featured here: http://igamemom.com/2013/04/24/encourage-kids-enjoy-nature-moms-library/
Thanks for the terrific feature! And yes, the Lorax is an awesome book 🙂