Gardening Books for Kids (Gardening Unit Study)

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 is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms.

Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world.

A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food.

It takes more than just seeds and water.

Lift the flaps in this bright board book and find out all you need to know in order to create and care for your very own garden!

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth.

Lois Ehlert’s bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves… and down in the dirt.

A companion to the new Over and Under the Pond and the beloved Over and Under the Snow, this sweet exploration of the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year “could not be more lovely,” according to the Washington Post.

Up in the garden, the world is full of green — leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit.

Down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home.

Who would want to be friends with a wiggly, slimy worm?

You can’t even tell which end is which! But there’s more to these lowly creatures than meets the eye.

Kids are invited to find out where worms live, see how they move, and understand why gardeners consider them friends with the help of this humorous and informative look at an unappreciated — and fascinating — creature.

“Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup.” So begins Lois Ehlert’s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young.

The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot).

Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, and cooking!

In the end? “It was the best soup ever.”

Ehlert’s simple, colorful cut-paper-style illustrations are child-friendly, as is the big black type. 

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature.

This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to find your heat zone, moving through seeds, soil, composting, and then creating garden art and appreciating your natural surroundings.

This book guides your family through fun opportunities learning about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking.

The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on outdoor experiences.

The lessons in this book are open-ended to be explored over and over – with different results each time!

Fantastic ideas for making things, growing plants and flowers, and attracting wildlife to the garden, with 60 practical projects and 500 photographs.

Many gardeners find that once they have children gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins.

Raising kids and maintaining a garden can be a juggling act, leaving the family garden forgotten and neglected.

But kids can make great gardening companions, and the benefits of including them are impossible to ignore.

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 is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms.

Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world.

A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food.

It takes more than just seeds and water.

Lift the flaps in this bright board book and find out all you need to know in order to create and care for your very own garden!

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth.

Lois Ehlert’s bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves… and down in the dirt.

A companion to the new Over and Under the Pond and the beloved Over and Under the Snow, this sweet exploration of the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year “could not be more lovely,” according to the Washington Post.

Up in the garden, the world is full of green — leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit.

Down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home.

Who would want to be friends with a wiggly, slimy worm?

You can’t even tell which end is which! But there’s more to these lowly creatures than meets the eye.

Kids are invited to find out where worms live, see how they move, and understand why gardeners consider them friends with the help of this humorous and informative look at an unappreciated — and fascinating — creature.

“Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup.” So begins Lois Ehlert’s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young.

The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot).

Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, and cooking!

In the end? “It was the best soup ever.”

Ehlert’s simple, colorful cut-paper-style illustrations are child-friendly, as is the big black type. 

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature.

This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to find your heat zone, moving through seeds, soil, composting, and then creating garden art and appreciating your natural surroundings.

This book guides your family through fun opportunities learning about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking.

The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on outdoor experiences.

The lessons in this book are open-ended to be explored over and over – with different results each time!

Fantastic ideas for making things, growing plants and flowers, and attracting wildlife to the garden, with 60 practical projects and 500 photographs.

Many gardeners find that once they have children gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins.

Raising kids and maintaining a garden can be a juggling act, leaving the family garden forgotten and neglected.

But kids can make great gardening companions, and the benefits of including them are impossible to ignore.