Earth Day 2026 (Kids)

Updated December 17, 2025
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The big book of nature art
Zommer, Yuval.
Paper Book
Featuring twenty-two easy craft projects using natural and recycled materials, The Big Book of Nature Art is a fun and eco way for young children to connect creatively with nature. From bestselling author Yuval Zommer, The Big Book of Nature Art is packed with...
One earth
Spinelli, Eileen.
Paper Book
Celebrate our planet and discover easy ways to take care of it with this picture book that's perfect for budding environmentalists and nature lovers. Kids can count reasons to love the planet and ways to protect it in the pages of this conservation-themed book....
Everything Trail
Fleming, Meg.
Paper Book
Come along on an eye-popping journey through the forest with a group of young explorers ready to discover everything nature has to offer in this lyrical, awe-inspiring picture book full of "curiosity and wonder" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The wind waves...
We are better together
McKibben, Bill.
Paper Book
From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis. When we work together, we humans can do incredible...
Let's Go for a Walk on Mother Earth
Armstrong, Juliana.
Paper Book
Today is a good day to go for a walk on Mother Earth. Come on a journey with young Sachiiwin and Waawaasbiikse as they count all the wonderful animals they can see. With each new animal friend, learn their Anishinaabemowin name, and discover what makes them special. This delightful...
The crayons love our planet
Jeffers Oliver.
Paper Book
The hilarious Crayons from the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit are ready to celebrate our planet in this mini hardcover book! Our planet has all of us... In many shapes, colors, and sizes. The Crayons love our...
Nate the great and the Earth Day robot
Sharmat, Andrew.
Paper Book
Join the world's greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the missing Earth Day robot in this long-running chapter book series that's a favorite for beginner readers! WILL THIS CASE ROLL AWAY? The Earth Day Fair is days away, but Nate's...
We are water protectors
Lindstrom, Carole
Paper Book
From author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Michaela Goade comes a New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal winning picture book that honors Indigenous-led movements across the world. Powerfully written and gorgeously illustrated, We Are Water Protectors,...

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We are extremely very good recyclers
Child, Lauren.
Paper Book
After Charlie convinces Lola to recycle her old toys instead of throwing them away, Lola discovers a recycling competition. If she can recycle one hundred plastic, metal, and paper items, she can get her very own real live tree to plant. But she only has two weeks, so Lola decides to ask her...
My great outdoors book : the kids' guide to being outside
Jeffery, Josie
Paper Book
You and the universe
Hawking, Stephen
Paper Book
Inspire kids to ask the big questions about Earth and the cosmos with this stunningly illustrated version of Professor Stephen Hawking's final message to humankind. We are all time travelers journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future...
A wolf called Wander
Parry, Rosanne.
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! "Don't miss this dazzling tour de force."--Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winning author of The One and Only Ivan This gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf's incredible journey to find a safe place to...
Dino-earth day
Wheeler Lisa
Paper Book
The world needs help to keep it clean. / It's Dino-Earth Day . . . let's go green! Upbeat rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and playful illustrations from Barry Gott present many different ways to take care of the planet. The dinos ride bikes and scooters, clean up a park, plant an urban...
We have a dream : meet 30 young Indigenous people and people of color protecting the planet
Craig, Mya-Rose.
Paper Book
Thirty young environmental activists share their dreams with voice of a generation Mya-Rose Craig Indigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change. And yet they are underrepresented within the environmental movement. But not anymore.
History Smashers: Earth Day and the Environment
Messner, Kate.
Paper Book
Myths! Lies! Recycling scams? Discover the real story behind the first Earth Day celebration and some of the biggest US climate catastrophes--and their solutions! Don't miss the award-winning History Smashers series as they get to the truth on the biggest environmental fibs!
Change is in the air : carbon, climate, Earth, and us
Levy, Debbie.
Paper Book
The Nature Generation's Green Earth Book Award Winner 2025 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2025Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of 2024 New York Public Library Best Books of 2024 A Bank Street College School of...
Green : the story of plant life on our planet
Davies, Nicola
Paper Book
Take a lively look at the biology of plants on Earth--and their vast importance to our planet--with this wide-ranging exploration from an award-winning team. This tree doesn't look like it's doing very much. It just stands there in the sunlight, big...
Here we are : notes for living on planet Earth
Jeffers Oliver.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 TIME Best Book of the Year for 2017! The exquisite and thought-provoking book from the multi award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator of Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers. Well, hello. And welcome to...

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Bruce saves the planet
Higgins, Ryan T.
Paper Book
From unwitting mother to unwitting . . . environmental activist? Save the planet with #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Ryan T. Higgins's beloved Mother Bruce. Bruce was a bear who liked to be by himself. But that wasn't easy for him, as mother...
The curious garden
Brown, Peter
Paper Book
This New York Times bestselling modern classic explores the perennial topic of environmentalism in an urban world, from the creator of The Wild Robot and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time. While out...
Love your world : how to take care of the plants, the animals, and the planet
Sirett, Dawn.
Paper Book
Love Your World shows the very youngest readers what they can do to help the environment. From recycling to water conservation to making a compost pile in the backyard, this richly illustrated guide makes it easy for toddlers to go green!
Judy Moody saves the world!
McDonald, Megan.
Paper Book
The mercurial Judy returns - and she's in a mood to take on the world! Judy Moody did not set out to save the world. She set out to win a contest. A Band-Aid contest. It all started with the Crazy-Strip contest - and the dream that she, Judy Moody, might one...
Flush
Hiaasen, Carl.
Ebook
A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida--where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!  You know it's going to be a rough summer when you...
Wild wings
Lewis, Gill.
Paper Book
This "vividly imagined and well-written novel" (Booklist, starred review) tells a gripping story about a boy from Scotland and a girl from West Africa who join together to save a migrating Osprey--and end up saving each other. When Callum spots crazy Iona McNair on his...
Willodeen
Santoso, Charles.
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Odder and The One and Only Ivan, a heartfelt story about a girl named Willodeen who risks everything to help a magical, endangered creature. The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you...
When a Tree Falls : Nurse Logs and Their Incredible Forest Power
Pendreigh, Kirsten.
Paper Book
The perfect read for exploring nature with children, this beautiful nonfiction picture book offers an awe-inspiring look at the forest''s life cycle. A tree suns and sways in the forest. She is a place to grow, to rest, and to shelter. But what happens when...
Wild weather : storms, meteorology, and climate
Reed, M. K.
Paper Book
Furious floods, looming landslides, terrifying tornadoes, ferocious forest fires! Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something? As "snowpocalypse" descends once again, one temperamental weatherman is determined to set the record straight on the myths and misconceptions...
The climate crisis. a graphic guide / Climate migrants
Hill, Christina.
Paper Book
Being forced from home is something no one wants to experience. But climate change is causing flooding, new weather patterns, and destruction to houses and cities. It can make resources such as food or clean water hard to come by. It can even wipe out entire communities. As climate change...
Nature play workshop for families : a guide to 40+ outdoor learning experiences in all seasons
Wiedel-Lubinski, Monica.
Paper Book
Nature Play Workshop for Families reveals the benefits of nature connection for young children and describes how caring adults can nurture it through outdoor play in all seasons.
Our plastic problem : a call for global solutions
Durnford, Megan.
Paper Book
We have a serious plastic problem. What was supposed to be a miracle material when it was first invented is now one of the biggest sources of pollution on our planet. But where does plastic come from? Why do we use so much of it? How does it hurt the environment and the animals who live...

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