Planting a Garden

A Seed is Sleepy

Author: Dianna Hutts Aston
Illustrator: Sylvia Long
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Age Range: 5 to 8

Alison’s Zinnia

Author: Anita Lobel
Illustrator: Anita Lobel
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Butterflies in the Garden

Author: Carol Lerner
Illustrator: Carol Lerner
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: 5 to 8

City Green

Author: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Illustrator: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: 5 to 9

Counting in the Garden

Author: Kim Parker
Illustrator: Kim Parker
Publisher: Orchard
Age Range: 3 to 5

First Garden: The White House Garden and How it Grew

Author: Robbin Gourley
Illustrator: Robbin Gourley
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 6 to 9

Flower Garden

Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: Kathryn Hewitt
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 7

Grandpa Green

Author: Lane Smith
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Age Range: 5 to 9

Growing Vegetable Soup

Author: Lois Ehlert
Illustrator: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Age Range: 3 to 8

If You Hold a Seed

Author: Elly MacKay
Illustrator: Elly MacKay
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Age Range: 6 to 8

Jack’s Garden

Author: Henry Cole
Illustrator: Henry Cole
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America

Author: Kathi Appelt
Illustrator: Joy Fisher Hein
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: 4 to 8

Miss Rumphius

Author: Barbara Cooney
Illustrator: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Viking Press
Age Range: 5 to 8

My Garden

Author: Kevin Henkes
Illustrator: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 3 to 7

Oh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)

Author: Bonnie Worth
Illustrator: Aristides Ruiz
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 8

Plant the Tiny Seed

Author: Christie Matheson
Illustrator: Christie Matheson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Planting a Rainbow

Author: Lois Ehlert
Illustrator: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Age Range: 3 to 8

Planting the Wild Garden

Author: Kathryn O. Galbraith
Illustrator: Wendy Anderson Halperin
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Carrot Seed

Author: Ruth Krauss
Illustrator: Crockett Johnson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Curious Garden

Author: Peter Brown
Illustrator: Peter Brown
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 3 to 8

The Gardener

Author: Sarah Stewart
Illustrator: David Small
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Little Gardener (Teenie Greenies)

Author: Jan Gerardi
Illustrator: Jan Gerardi
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (board book)
Age Range: 1 to 3

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet (Anholt’s Artists Books for Children)

Author: Laurence Anholt
Illustrator: Laurence Anholt
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Age Range: 6 to 9

The Night Gardener

Author: The Fan Brothers
Illustrator: The Fan Brothers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Rose in My Garden

Author: Arnold Lobel
Illustrator: Anita Lobel
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric Carle)

Author: Eric Carle
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Age Range: 3 to 7

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

Author: Kate Messner
Illustrator: Christopher Silas Neal
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Zinnia’s Flower Garden

Author: Monica Wellington
Illustrator: Monica Wellington
Publisher: Dutton
Age Range: 3 to 8