1000 Books Before Kindergarten
April 2026
Welcome the spring season with these titles about gardens and gardening!
Garden Time
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Vegetable Garden: A Search-And-Find Book by Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Vegetable Garden: A Search-And-Find Book
by Eric Carle

In this engaging search-and-find board book, young readers will be challenged to search for various veggies with The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Seed by Maggie Li
Seed
by Maggie Li

Meet Pip, a tiny apple seed. Follow along as it transforms from seed to sprout to tree in this beautifully illustrated board book for the very young.
My garden by Kevin Henkes
My Garden
by Kevin Henkes

After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls. 
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup
by Lois Ehlert

A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.


    Little Gardener's First 100 Words by Tenisha Bernal
    Little Gardener's First 100 Words
    by Tenisha Bernal

    From bugs to tools, each page in this first words book is filled with things found in the garden--above and below the ground.


     
    In Our Garden by Pat Zietlow Miller
    In Our Garden
    by Pat Zietlow Miller

    Students create a vegetable garden on their school's rooftop.
    Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie Lamba
    Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
    by Marie Lamba

    A charming rhyming picture book about a city's green space growing and changing, with illustrations from an Eisner award winner.
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