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Gardening Book List for Kids
| Title | Author | Grade Level |
| Sunflower House |
Eve Bunting | K-3 |
| A Seed Grows : My First Look at a Plant's Life Cycle (My First Look at Nature) |
Pamela Hickman | K-3 |
| Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots: Gardening Together with Children | Sharon Lovejoy | 4-8 |
| Green Thumbs: Teaching Children the Joy of Gardening | Laurie Carlson | 4-8 |
| Kid's Pumpkin Projects: Planting and Harvesting Fun | Deanna F. Cook | 4-8 |
| Investigative Learning with The Private Eye | Kerry Ruef | 4-9 |
| The Growing Classroom | Roberta Jaffe | 2-6 |
| Learn and Play in the Garden | Meg Herd | pre K-4 |
| In the Three Sisters Garden | Joanne Dennee | 1-6 |
| A Child's Garden: Enchanting Outdoor Spaces for Children and Parents | Molly Dannenmaier | 1-8 |
| Tiny Green Thumbs | C.Z. Guest | pre K-2 |
| The Children's Kitchen Garden: A Book of Gardening, Cooking and Learning | Georgeanne Brennan | K-7 |
| Eat the Fruit, Plant the Seed | Millicent Selsam | K-3 |
| This Year's Garden | Cindy Ryant | K-3 |
| Mrs. Plum's Paradise | Elisa Trimby | K-3 |
| The Beetle Bush | Beverly Keller | K-4 |
| Growing Colors | Bruce McMillan | pre K |
| Now I Know all about Seeds | Susan Kuchalla | pre K-1 |
| The Tiny Seed | Eric Carle | K-3 |
| Pumpkin, Pumpkin | Jeanne Titherington | pre K-1 |
| Growing Vegetable Soup | Lois Ehlert | K-1 |
| Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel | K-2 |
| Pumpkin People | David Cavagnaro | pre K-4 |
| The Reason for a Flower | Ruth Heller | K-3 |
| The Carrot Seed | Ruth Krauss | K-3 |
| Gardening with Kids | Sharon MacLatchie | K-6 |
| Corn is Maise, Gifts of Indians | Aliki | K-3 |
| How a Seed Grows | Helen Jordan | K-2 |
| My Garden: A Journal | Louise Murphy | 1-6 |
| Linnea's Windowsill Garden | Christina Bjork | 4-5 |
| In My Garden: A Child's Garden | Helen Oechsli | 1-4 |
| Rosy's Garden | Satomi Ichikawa | 3-5 |
| From Seed To Salad | Hannah Lyons Johnson | 3-5 |
| Your First Garden Book | Marc Brown | 2-4 |
| Linnea's Almanac | Christina Bjork | 4-5 |
| The Science Book of Things that Grow | Neil Ardley | 3-5 |
| Hoe, Hoe, Hoe Watch My Garden Grow | Mark Daddona | 4-6 |
| The Plants We Eat | Millicent Selsam | 4-6 |
| Gardening Naturally | D. X. Fenten | 6-8 |
| The Victory Gardens Kid's Book | Marjorie Waters | 3-6 |
| Kids Gardening: A Kid's Guide to Messing Around in the Dirt | Kevin Rafferty | 4-6 |
| Lets Grow! | Linda Tilgner | 1-6 |
| Sow and Grow | Gabrielle Woolfritt | 2-4 |
| From Flower to Fruit | Anne Ophelia Downden | 6-8 |
| From Seed to Plant | Gail Gibbons | 1-3 |
| How Seeds Travel | Cynthia Overbeck | 5-6 |
| Seeds and Seedlings | Terry Jennings | 3-6 |
| Seeds Get Around | Nancy White | pre K-2 |
| Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide | Patricia Lauber | 2-5 |
| How Seeds Travel: Popguns and Parachutes | Jane B. Moncure | 4-6 |
| My First Look at Nature | Dorling Kindersley | pre K-1 |
| Get Growing! | Lois Walker | 1-5 |
| More That Just a Vegetable Garden | Dwight Kuhn | 2-6 |
| Nicky the Nature Detective | Ulf Svedberg | 4-6 |
| A Kid's First Book of Gardening | Derek Fell | 2-6 |
| Planting A Rainbow | Lois Ehlert | K-1 |
| The Kid's Nature Book | Susan Milord | 4-7 |
| Grow It! | Erika Markmann | 2-5 |
| Vegetable Garden | Douglas Florian | pre K-1 |
| Honeysuckle Sippings: Plant Lore of Childhood | Jeanne R. Chesanow | 4-6 |
| Gardening Wizardry for Kids | L. Patricia Kite | 3-8 |
| Sunflower Houses | Sharon Lovejoy | 4-8 |
| The Amazing Potato Book | Paulette Bourgeois | 2-6 |
| The Amazing Dirt Book | Paulette Bourgeois | 2-6 |
| More Than Just a Flower Garden | Dwight Kuhn | 2-6 |
| City Green | DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan | 6-8 |
| Weird Things You Can Grow | Janet Goldenberg | 3-8 |
| Grandpa's Garden Lunch | Judith Caseley | 3-5 |
| The Cabin Faced West | Jean Fritz | 3-5 |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean George | 4-6 |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | V. Cleaver and B. Cleaver | 4-7 |
| Wise Child | Monica Furlong | 5-7 |
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