Books About Plants for Kindergarten

Spring is here and that means it is time to dive into plants. Check out this Books About Plants for Kindergarten list to help with your plant lesson plans. This includes books about what plants need to grow and books about plants and flowers.

My Favorite Books About Plants for Kindergarten

I feel a strong need to start with the best fictional book to integrate into your plant unit. A must-read is Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens. Sincerely, this is a book I look forward to reading every single year and it never disappoints. You can integrate ideas of how to grow plants and why we need plants as humans easily. You will be sorry if you miss this one. Grab it here on Amazon.

Parts of a Plant? Books About Plants

Pebble Books has a fantastic collection of Plant Part books, just more ideas for our list of Books About Plants. I love to use these for plant research projects and informational resources. Because the covers are so colorful and inviting, my little learners run to these books.

Seeds by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Roots by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Leaves by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Stems by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Fruits by Vijaya Khisty Bodach
Flowers by Vijaya Khisty Bodach

How do Plants Grow? Books About Plants

A classic book by Gail Gibbons is From Seed to Plant. It is a great nonfiction reader that uses big words in ways that little learners can understand. Your class will love the illustrations and diagrams. You can grab this book on Amazon here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb7n_B8kzNY

Another go to title is How to Grow a Seed by Helene J. Jordan. You can grab it on Amazon here.

Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn is a lovely book centered around Lola and her mom as they grow sunflower seeds of their own. You can check out this book on Amazon.

No list of books about plants can be complete with the Eric Carle classic The Tiny Seed. It is a timeless book about how flowers grow. You can grab it here.

Great Fictional Text Books About Plants

One of my favorite ways to teach is with both fiction and nonfiction texts each week. I have a few fictional favorites that work well with plants that I know you will love.

Keep in my mind my favorite plant book, Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens. Additionally, she recently made a sequel you will adore as well titled, The Donkey Egg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFzcQXVK9BQ

Sometimes teachers get extra blessed and find a title that can be used with the theme they are teaching BUT actually relate to behaviors. The book If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson is this type of book. It is award-winning and covers how you can grow kindness. You can see it here.

Plant Lesson Plans