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Looking for the best gardening books for preschoolers to teach your little ones about growing a garden, or just some fun books about gardens? In this post, I’m sharing the best books to enjoy with your young children – all about gardens!
I have enjoyed gardening for years – and have now been able to share that hobby with my toddler. We love getting outdoors and working in our flower and vegetable garden. It’s so good for our young kids to be outdoors, work in dirt, and learn about nature and how things grow.
We can extend that learning indoors with books about gardening! Or, even take our garden books outside on a picnic blanket to enjoy in our garden.
Below you’ll find a great book list of the best gardening books for preschoolers and young readers.
You can check these garden books out from your local library, or create your own library at home to enjoy every day!
The 15 Best Gardening Books for Preschoolers
You can plan some easy lessons by reading a garden book, and then doing a small garden project.
Here’s some more fun ideas to enjoy gardening with your kids:
- start seeds inside and watch them sprout
- take your kids to the garden center or a nursery to choose what to plant
- use raised garden beds to grow your own vegetables and flowers at home
- talk with your kids about what vegetables to grow and where to plant them
- grow a flower garden to attract bees and butterflies
- take books and art supplies into your garden area for kids to hang out among the garden
- have your kids help you plant, pull weeds, and water to care for the garden
- take pictures of flowers or vegetables in your garden for art inspiration or make a scrapbook
- have older kids take notes on how well things are growing and what changes to make next year
- visit local garden centers, nurseries, greenhouses, and orchards to learn more about gardening
- keep a family nature notebook with notes about what was planted and when, and how things grew
- have your kids help you harvest vegetables and herbs and use them to make dinner
- allow your kids to cut flowers from the garden and make flower arrangements
- consider growing more than you need to sell extras at a roadside stand or farmer’s market, or to preserve by canning or freezing
There are so many ways to enjoy gardening with your kids!
Here is a fun book list to read all about different types of gardens:
1. From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
We have been reading this book the past few weeks and love it! It’s straightforward, has simple text perfect for young kids, and beautiful illustrations.
This awesome non fiction book teachers young readers about pollination, seed formation, and germination with diagrams showing the parts of plants and how seeds grow into plants.
This book includes a seed growing project and a page with interesting facts about plants, seeds, and flowers.
Get From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons here.
2. The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
This is a beautiful book about a little boy named Liam who discovers a garden that needs his help. He transforms the garden to a really beautiful place.
Kids will love to point and find Liam on every page, too!
3. Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
We love this beautiful board book all about planting a rainbow of flowers!
This is a lovely book perfect for younger children learning their colors – they will love the pages organized by flower colors!
This book is a great way to learn colors, flower names, and enjoy learning how a little seed or bulbs can turn into a beautiful flower garden.
Enjoy this book with your kids and then plant your own garden of beautiful flowers!
4. Zinnia’s Flower Garden by Monica Wellington
We own and love this wonderful book that teaches how to patiently plant seeds, water and care for them, wait for buds, and then enjoy a beautiful harvest of flowers.
This is one of our favorite picture books! Kids will learn what it takes to grow flowers, work on vocabulary, and enjoy a good story all in one fun book.
Get Zinnia’s Flower Garden here.
5. Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn
In this beautifully illustrated picture book, book-loving Lola reads a collection of garden poems with her Mommy. Then, she wants to plant her own flowers.
They check out gardening books from the library, choose their flowers and buy their seeds. Lola learns to be patient waiting for her seeds to grow and creates her own flower book.
After her flowers finally bloom, she invites friends to enjoy her flowers, too!
Your little girl will love Lola and this sweet story!
Get Lola Plants a Garden here.
6. The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Enjoy the beautiful illustrations of Eric Carle and learn how a tiny seed becomes a flower.
You can teach your little gardener all about a flower’s life cycle and how it changes from seed to sprout to flower.
7. Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! by Carole Gerber
Here is a great collection of garden poems to enjoy with your children! Learn about plants and insects, and enjoy some easy poetry, too!
Get Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! here.
8. We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines
This is one of our favorite books about gardening!
With beautiful garden illustrations, Joanna and her kids tell the story about starting their first garden. They talk about mistakes they made, how they had to be patient, and many things they have learned about gardening.
Your young gardener will love this casual picture book, too!
Get We are the Gardeners here!
9. My Garden by Kevin Henkes
This is one of our favorite picture books and we check it out from the library so often, we might should just buy it to have a copy at home!
It’s whimsical and funny and so, so sweet!
A young girl plants a garden with her Mom, but thinks of all the things she would do in her garden – like chocolate rabbits, no carrots, flowers that regrow when you pick them, seashells, and tomatoes as big as beach balls.
You will definitely want to check this one out!
10. Miguel’s Community Garden by JaNay Brown-Wood
In this cheerful book, a young boy is throwing a party at his community garden for all of his friends and he is searching for sunflowers.
Your kids will love helping Miguel find the sunflowers he’s looking for!
Find Miguel’s Community Garden here.
11. The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons
Here’s a great non-fiction picture book full of simple text and colorful watercolors.
Read about how vegetables grow, how they get to the grocery store, and so much more!
Get The Vegetables We Eat here.
12. Plants Feed Me by Lizzy Rockwell
We love Lizzy Rockwell’s illustrations and the simple text in this book is perfect for young children to learn all about where food comes from.
This informative and fun book shows the different parts of plants we use and eat, different types of seeds we eat, and even how wheat is made into flour.
13. Let’s Get Gardening by DK
Here’s a how to gardening book that will grow with your child for many years!
This gardening guide for kids has 30 easy gardening projects to help them learn how to grow their own fruits and vegetables, attract butterflies and bees to their garden, and more!
The activities have step by step instructions and show how to grow things like tomatoes, pumpkins, and zucchini with step by step photos.
Your kids will love the hands on activities in this interactive book and they will really love watching their own garden grow!
14. Hello, World! Garden Time by Jill McDonald
We love this sturdy board book perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy!
Learn all about gardening with simple, easy to understand text and fun illustrations.
This one is a great first nature book for young children.
15. The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
This is a sweet story about a young girl that wishes for a pretty flower garden instead of the ugly vegetables growing in her garden.
But then she learns how those ugly vegetables can be made into a delicious vegetable soup!
There you have it – the 15 best gardening books for preschoolers and young children!
I hope you found some great books to read with your kids and learn all about gardening.
Grab a mix of non fiction books to learn how to grow your own food, and some fun fictional books to enjoy great gardening stories, too.
Take these ideas and stories in your own backyard and help your children grow their own flowers, fruit, and vegetables, too!
Your young children will love learning about gardening and the best part is you can teach them so many practical skills and interests, too!
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