Welcome Spring! 10 Picture Books About Gardens

Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland.

This interactive activity book takes you on a ramble through a secret garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations  — all waiting to be brought to life through coloring, but each also sheltering all kinds of tiny creatures just waiting to be found.

And there are also bits of the garden that still need to be completed by you.

One boy’s quest for a greener world… one garden at a time.

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 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 that present all the flowers of each color of the rainbow.

Harlem Grown tells the inspiring true story of how one man made a big difference in a neighborhood. After seeing how restless they were and their lack of healthy food options,

Tony Hillery invited students from an underfunded school to turn a vacant lot into a beautiful and functional farm.

By getting their hands dirty, these kids turned an abandoned space into something beautiful and useful while learning about healthy, sustainable eating and collaboration.

The girl in this book grows chocolate rabbits, tomatoes as big as beach balls, flowers that change color, and seashells in her garden.

How does your garden grow?

Mrs. Spitzer is a wise teacher who knows many things.

She knows about gardens. She knows about children. She knows how similar they are. And how they will flourish if tended lovingly.

There are many remarkable teachers like Mrs. Spitzer in the world.

Available for the first time in an intimate gift edition, here is a book to celebrate all that they do, year after year, to help our children grow and blossom.

Caldecott Honor Book * New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year

Sarah Stewart introduces readers to an engaging and determined young heroine, whose story is told through letters written home, while David Small's illustrations beautifully evoke the Depression-era setting.

Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker.

There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows.

But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garden -- which she hopes will make even Uncle Jim smile.

Little Critter is going green! Little Critter learns that planting his own garden is a lot of fun and a lot of work.

But the result — a green, green garden — is something he can cherish and enjoy.

Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her mommy.

She wants to plant her own garden of beautiful flowers, so she and Mommy go to the library to check out books about gardening.

Lola finds it hard to wait for her flowers to grow, but she spends the time creating her own flower book.

Soon she has a garden full of sunflowers and invites all of her friends for cakes and punch and a story amongst the flowers.

In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt.

Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year!

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

But down in the dirt exists a busy world — earthworms dig, snakes hunt, skunks burrow — populated by all the animals that make a garden their home.

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!

A young boy digs in the dirt and plants seeds.

Time passes and the seeds grow into something amazing.

The latest in the hit Hello, World! board book series teaches toddlers all about gardens — with easy-to-understand facts about how plants grow and how gardening puts food on our tables.

Jack decides he wants to plant a garden and asks his friends to help. They work and wait together to harvest their garden goodies. Full of bright colors, charming characters and simple fun facts about planting a garden.