Tot School Books: Garden Theme

We LOVE to play outside in our garden. Really, it’s been such a learning experience for me. I’ve been known to accidentally kill quite a few plants. Sorry, plants! This year we found a pretty good rhythm and flow to keeping up with this garden and it’s been so fun to dive more in depth with this tot school garden theme for Wyatt!
I’ve rounded up 70 tot school books to help spark the curiosity about gardening for your little one (and maybe you, too!)

Are any of these your favorites already? Which ones are you excited to explore? Let me know in the comments!

We score a lot of these titles at our local library and had some on hand, too.

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50+ Garden Theme Books to Love:

1. If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson 
2. Seeds and Trees by Brandon Walden
3. Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn
4. The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
5. Green Bean Green Bean by Patricia Thomas
6. Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt  by Kate Messner
7. The Amazing Life Cycle of Plants by Kay Barnham
8. Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
9. From the Garden: A Counting Book About Growing Your Food by Michael Dahl
10. Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson
11. We are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines 
12. Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
13. Ten Wriggly, Wiggly Caterpillars by Debbie Tarbett
14. Nature Anatomy by Julia Rothman
15. Compost Stew by Mary Siddals
16. GROW by Ben Raskin
17. Secrets of the Garden by Kathleen Zoehfeld
18. Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie Lamba
19. Roots Shoots Buckets and Boots by Sharon Lovejoy
20. I Can Grow a Flower by DK
21. From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
22. Two Little Gardeners by Margaret Wise Brown
23. Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
24. The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller
25. The Bad Seed by Jory John
26. My Garden by Kevin Henkes
27. How Does my Garden Grow? By Gerda Muller
28. The Little Gardener by Jan Gerardi
29. The Little Gardener by Emily Hughes
30. Paddington Bear in the Garden by Michael Bond
31. A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston
32. Botanicum by Kathy Willis
33. Our Community Garden by Barbara Pollak
34. The Enormous Potato by Aubrey Davis
35. Jo Macdonald had a Garden by Mary Quattlebaum
36. Wonders of Nature by Jane Werner Watson
37. Plants and Flowers by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
38. Secrets of the Vegetable Garden by Usborne
39. Peek inside the Garden by Usborne
40. Sunflower Summer by Wendy Dunham
41. Something’s Eating the Garden by Pam Fries
42. Bee by Britta Teckentrup
43. Flower Alphabet by Mrs. Peanuckle
44. Garden Wrigglers by Nancy Loewen
45. The Secret Garden by Jennifer Adams
46. In the Butterfly Garden by Philippe Ug
47. Van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
48. Zinnia’s Flower Garden by Monica Wellington
49. In My Garden by Ward Schumaker
50. Here in the Garden by Briony Stewart
51. Green in a Chile Pepper by Roseanne Greenfield Thong
52. The Turnip by Jan Brett
53. Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole
54. Good Garden Bugs! by Lisa Monias
55. Bugs in the Garden by Beatrice Alemanga 
56. Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
57. The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons
58. The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
59. Plant, Cook, Eat! A Children’s Cookbook by Joe Archer
60. Patience, Please! by Mike Berenstain
61. The Vegetable Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
62. Growing Garden by Lois Ehlert
63. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! By Candace Fleming
64. Up, Down, Around! by Katherine Ayres
65. How a Seed Grows by Helen J. Jordan
66. It Will Be Okay: Trusting God Through Fear & Change by Lysa Terkeurst
67. Flip, Float, Fly: Seeds on the Move by Joann Early Macken 
68. Who Will Plant a Tree? by Jerry Pallotta
69. The Flower Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
70. If You Hold a Seed by Elly MacKay

Books also make the best travel buddies. If you’re hitting the road soon, you can check out our road trip essentials for toddlers!