Earth Day, celebrated each year on April 22nd, is dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues and promoting sustainable practices. There’s year’s focus is reducing plastics. How can we help children understand the importance of protecting our planet? It’s important to foster environmental awareness from an early age. Some of us adult have memories of activities at school, including the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). Let’s continue that awareness!
In this blog post, I’m sharing a selection of Earth Day related books I’ve read with my children, or those books we just picked up yesterday from the library to keep planting the seeds of environmental consciousness the whole week and beyond. These books not only have beautiful illustrations but also serve as powerful tools to inspire a lifelong connection with our beautiful Earth. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or caregiver, I hope you share these books with the children in your life.
Earth Day Picture Books
This selection showcases some of the books we own or have read that encourage children to appreciate the natural world and participate in protecting our planet through simple actions.
The Earth Gives More From leaves falling to become fertilizer, to raindrops helping to bring plants to life in the spring, the cycle of every season has something to enjoy. While delighting in all nature has to offer, we need to remember to respect and treasure the world around us. This charming rhyming story follows the change in seasons and illustrates how we can all be good stewards to the Earth.
Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring Join a boy and his dog as they explore nature and take a stroll through the countryside, greeting all the signs of the coming season. In a series of conversations with everything from the melting brook to chirping birds, they say goodbye to winter and welcome the lushness of spring.
Lennon’s interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey where they can:
Bring medicine to people in need!
Dive below the ocean to bleached coral reefs!
Visit the city to cultivate green spaces!
Help the rain forest return and give its animals a home!
Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place!
Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth.With humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Earth in this “autobiography”. Rich with kid-friendly facts.
We Are Water Protectors Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption
More Earth Day Books to Try
This selection has some of the books we picked up at our local library recently. We will be reading them today and this week! Let us know if you’ve read any of these books.
10 Things You Can Do to Save Water.
It doesnt take a lot to conserve water. Taking action can be as simple as taking a shower instead of a bath or finding and fixing leaky toilets. Kids learn this and more about what they can do to help in 10 Things I Can Do to Save Water.
Ganesha Goes Green During her town’s Ganesha Chaturthi festival, young Prema comes up with an innovative plan to save the river from pollution. Persevering through multiple obstacles, she convinces her friends to help her create natural clay Ganesha statues to replace the plaster ones that harm the river when they dissolve.
Butterflies Belong Here In this moving story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help other small travelers.
Rocket Says Clean Up! Plucky science-lover Rocket returns in another inspiring picture book about getting a community to notice the world around them, and, in this book, to CLEAN UP! their shoreline .
And for the toddlers, Sneak! Explore camouflage in this Slide-and-See series that introduces budding scientists to fun STEM topics! This interactive board book features poetic riddles about camouflage animals around the world.
If you liked these recommendations, (Don’t miss my fall children’s books recommendations!
Planet vs Plastics
For Earth Day 2024 on April 22nd, EARTHDAY.ORG is unwavering in their commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of ALL plastics by 2040. Find out more and what you can do to help. https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
For this theme, I wrote a poem. Writing poetry is a great way to express yourself no matter your age.
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