Looking for the best books on seeds, trees, and plants for kids. Below are some of the very best plant-related kids books--great for supplementing science units in the classroom or sparking a child's interest at home. Teaching plants with children's books has many benefits, like:

• adding a reading component to create a cross-curricular lesson to maximize teaching
• differentiate your lesson for the different types of learning styles in your classroom
• help children connect the specifics you are teaching about with the larger natural world
• add some fun and spark to your lesson and really get your students engaged!

A Fruit is a Suitcase
for Seeds
(great intro to purpose
and types of seeds--
vert well done!)
by Jean Richards
Kindergarten - Grade 2

The Tiny Seed
(full of fabulous Eric
Carle illustrations, a
bit wordy though)
by Eric Carle
1st grade - 3rd grade

In a Nutshell
(beautifully illustrated book
about the life cycle of an
oak, even after it is gone)
by Joseph Anthony
Kindergarten - 4th grade

A Seed Is Sleepy
(shows anthropomorphized
qualities of seeds, like sleepy, adventurous...)
by Dianna Aston
1st grade - 4th grade

The Dandelion Seed
(teaches about seeds,
cycles, and courage
thru the story of a
dandelion afraid to let go)
by Joseph Anthony
Kindergarten - 4th grade

Pick, Pull, Snap!
(basic introduction to plant
growth with poetic text,
photo-realistic, and
a lift-the-flap format)
by Lola Schaefer
Kindergarten - 4th grade

A Tree Is a Plant
(all about an apple tree;
a Let's Read to Find
Out Science book)
by Clyde Bulla
Kindergarten - 3rd grade

The Magic School
Bus Plants a Seed
(Mrs. Frizzle's class
explores the inside of a
flower, its basic parts...)
by Joanna Cole
Kindergarten - 4th grade

How a Seed Grows
(explains how seeds
work and growth stages
of a bean plant)
by Helene Jordan
Kindergarten - 1st grade

One Bean
(shows two kids doing the
popular bean-sprouting-on-
a-paper-towel experiment)
by Anne Rockwell
Preschool - 2nd grade

Hungry Plants
(all about carnivorous plants,
ie: the structure of the plant,
how it captures insects...)
by Mary Batten
4th grade - 8th grade

To Be Like the Sun
(a girl plants a sunflower
seed, then watches it grow
thru the different seasons)
by Susan Swanson
Preschool - Grade 3

The Tree
(an ancient Douglas fir shares experiences of its life + a plea for conservation--beautiful!)
by Dana Lyons
Kindergarten - 3rd grade

Ancient Ones
(portrays a vibrant old-growth
Douglas Fir forest --full of life,
interconnected, living in niches)
by Barbara Bash
2nd grade - 6th grade

Oh Say Can You Seed?
All About Flowering Plants
(Cat in the Hat Learning Library
book, in typical fun, zany style)
by Bonnie Worth
Kindergarten - 3rd grade

Tree of Life
The World of the African Baobab (lavishly illustrated look at the
unique African baobab tree)
by Barbara Bash
2nd grade - 5th grade

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
(young child observes the
life cycle of a maple tree)
by Lois Ehlert
Kindergarten - 3rd grade

DK Eyewitness Plant
(sharp close up photographs of
leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits...
all things plant related)
by David Burnie
4th grade - 8th grade

Poetrees
(18 poems full of clever
wordplay, about all that is
wonderful about trees --
great illustrations!)
by Douglas Florian
1st grade - 5th grade

Living Sunlight
How Plants Being the Earth
to Life (attempts to
explain photosynthesis)
by Molly Bang
2nd grade - 5th grade

Jack's Garden
(follows the growth of a boy's
backyard flower garden)
by Henry Cole
Preschool - 2nd grade

Enjoy the books!

Betsy, Cindy, and Virginia (the teachers/sisters behind this website)

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