Gardening Books for Kids

A complete collection of non-fiction and fiction Gardening Books for Kids! Make a garden theme bookshelf for your garden unit.

Let’s explore the nature inspired books from the garden with your child.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, I am a FIRM believer in getting kids in the garden to learn and grow. I would also admit that I am a book addict. My Master’s degree is in Reading Education K-12, so you know I’m a fan of reading with and to kids!

In fact, we have thousands of children’s books in our home. I am trying to be better at whittling down our book stash so our home library doesn’t get too overwhelming, but then I find another one to add to our collection.

Our local school library loves me because I donate over 500 books to them each year! Luckily, my 3 kids (ages 1, 4, and 7) are also addicted to books.

We do not own a television and so the kids read often, especially when I am busy cooking dinner! For me books = sanity. When building a collection of books for kids with a gardening theme, you do NOT need a ton of books. I have a bunch because I enjoy them immensely, but I also make use of our library and check many out from there as well.

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How to Build a Thematic Book Set

In this article, I will explain how I would make a garden theme “love books basket” for our garden unit. This gets kids reading for depth and breadth on a particular topic and encourages them to explore reading for a variety of purposes. I like to display them in a basket and read them for about a month before rotating to the next theme.

You can also make a collection and then loan the collection to a trusted friend for a month too. Then your hard work curating the set can be used by more than one family!