Earth Day: Picture Books for Early Childhood & Beyond

Celebrate Earth Day with picture books!

Updated March 21, 2024
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Caminantes curiosos
Archer, Micha
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT HONOR MEDAL Es hora de dar un paseo maravilloso... Abre estas paginas y disfruta de un dia de descubrimientos! Estas listo para un paseo maravilloso? Entonces sal afuera. Deja volar tu imaginaci n y tu curiosidad... y pronto...
Only one
Hopkinson, Deborah
Paper Book
This lyrical, environmentally focused picture book showcases the unique beauty of our one and only universe--its galaxies, stars, and planets--as well as our one and only Earth and the precious life it contains. Join one girl as she leads her friends to a tree-planting...
We are water protectors
Lindstrom, Carole
Paper Book
Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all.Water is sacred. My people talk of a black snake that will destroy the land, Spoil the water, wreck everything in its path.They foretold that it wouldn't come for many, many years.Now the black snake is here.Told from the perspective of a...
The wind and the trees
Stewart, Todd (Illustrator)
Paper Book
A gentle meditation on the cycle of life, told by two trees One day, a tiny pine seedling strikes up a conversation with a nearby tree. As the seedling grows larger, the older pine shares what it has learned about the strong wind that blows through the forest...
All that grows
Wong, Jack
Paper Book
From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Jack Wong, a story of a boy who discovers that the more he learns, the more there is to know! On their neighborhood walks together, a boy learns from his older sister all about the plants they see -- magnolias that smell like lemon cake, creeping...

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