A children’s environmental education advocate shares her book recommendations to inspire kids on Earth Day and every day. 
Are you searching for the ideal book to celebrate Earth Day with your children and teach them about preserving the environment? Look no further! Author and Children’s environmental education advocate and author, Andrea Koehle Jones, has curated a list of her top 24 fun and inspiring fiction, nonfiction and STEM books worth exploring with your kids on Earth Day and every day.
There are many more but these are the environmental education books that she is recommending right now.
Let’s celebrate Earth Day by reading children everywhere an inspiring Earth Day children’s book. It’s one of the best ways to help kids understand how they can protect the planet. From learning how to plant a tree, to protecting animals, oceans, forests and more.
“Earth Day is a brilliant day to introduce children to the wonders of nature and show them that they are never too little to help protect the planet,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder and Children’s Climate Education Advocate, The ChariTree Foundation.
These books are sure to ignite environmental enthusiasm in children and adults alike!
Listed in alphabetical order:
- A River’s Gifts
- Carson Crosses Canada
- Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways We Can Save Our Planet
- Everybody Needs a Rock
- How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
- In Our Garden
- Island Girls: Free the Sea of Plastic
- Kids Fight Plastic: How to Be a #2minutesuperhero
- Little Seed
- My Book of Rocks and Minerals: Things to Find, Collect, and Treasure
- My First Garden: For Little Gardeners Who Want to Grow
- My Friend Earth: (Earth Day Books with Environmentalism Message for Kids, Saving Planet Earth, Our Planet Book)
- National Geographic Readers: Cutest Animals Collection
- Old Enough to Save the Planet
- One Earth
- Outdoor School: Animal Watching: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide
- Outdoor School: Tree, Wildflower, and Mushroom Spotting: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide
- Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
- Stand Like a Cedar
- Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet: A Springtime Book For Kids
- The Big Book of the Blue
- The EARTH Book
- The Earth Gives More
- The Wild
- The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World a Better Place
- Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: (Nature Book for Kids, Gardening and Vegetable Planting, Outdoor Nature Book)
- Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
- What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet
- We Are Water Protectors
- Wildlife Ranger Action Guide: Track, Spot & Provide Healthy Habitat for Creatures Close to Home
Happy reading!
(Of course it goes without saying, whenever possible choose tree-free e-books or books printed on 100% recycled paper.)