Earth Day Books for Kids

Books to help teach sustainability at home.

Happy Earth Day!

Whether you’re looking to make some simple, sustainable swaps, learn about endangered animals, or find ways to take charge in your own community, these fiction and non-fiction picture books are the perfect starting point for talking to kids about our planet.

Below is a list of books on our wish list that are perfect for all ages and reading levels to help introduce the importance of Earth Day and protecting our natural resources. Extra sustainability points if you check them out from your local library this month!

1. We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben

2. Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg's Stand to Save the World by Zoë Tucker

3. 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh

4. The Tantrum That Saved the World by Megan Herbert and Michael E. Mann

5. One Earth by Eileen Spinelli

6. The Thing about Bees: A Love Letter by Shabazz Larkin

7. Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World by Allan Drummond

8. Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers

9. Old Enough to Save the Planet by Loll Kirby

10. The Story of Climate Change: A First Book about How We Can Help Save Our Planet by Steve Williams

11. The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs by Kate Messner

12. Climate Change, the Choice Is Ours: The Facts, Our Future, and Why There's Hope! by David Miles

13. Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species by Isabel Minhós Martins

Love Your Mother Earth 🌎

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