Earth Day Book Lists for Kids Ages Birth - 17.

This book list includes boardbooks, picture books, easy readers, chapter books, novels and nonfiction books focusing on conservation, climate change, and nature appreciation. All the books are available through the Sussex County Library System.

Updated February 7, 2026
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Sussex County Library System (NJ)
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Dear Earth
Otter, Isabel
Paper Book
When Tessa writes a love letter to the Earth, it's the beginning of a glorious adventure. She blows bubbles with whales, soars with birds and joins in with the noisy rainforest hullabaloo! Tessa wants everyone to know how special our planet is. She believes that there...
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...
Love, the Earth
Stickley, Frances
One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia
Paul, Miranda
Ebook
Rocket says clean up!
Bryon, Nathan
Paper Book
Join Rocket as she sets sail on a brand new mission - to save a Caribbean island from plastic pollution! When Rocket goes on holiday to visit her grandparents, she's shocked by the pollution that's spoiling their island home and putting the local sea life at risk. Can...
The tree and the river
Becker, Aaron
Paper Book
Up in the garden and down in the dirt
Messner, Kate
Ebook
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...
Wildoak
Harrington, C. C.
Paper Book
  An endangered forest. An abandoned snow leopard. A child who only feels comfortable talking to animals. When fates collide, the unbelievable can happen ... 'Put me in mind of Dodi Smith and Gerald Durrell at their very best - enchanting and thrilling in equal measure.'Piers...

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