Books That Bring the Garden Into the Classroom

From the New Jersey Agricultural Society’s Learning Through Gardening Program

ApplesThe Apple Orchard Riddle, Margaret McNamara Apples, Gail GibbonsHow Do Apples Grow, Betsy MaestroHow to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Marjorie Priceman The Life and Times of the Apple, Charles MicucciThe Season's of Arnold's Apple Tree, Gail Gibbons

Bees and InsectsAre You a Bee?, Judy Allen and Tudor HumphriesThe Beeman, Laurie Krebs and Valeria CisHoney Bees. Sharon KahkonenThe Honeybee Man, Lela Nargi and Kyrsten BrookerThe Honeymakers, Gail GibbonsOh Beyond Bugs! All About Insects, Tish Rabe Waiting for Wings, Lois Elhert

Compost, Soil, and WormsCompost Stew, Mary McKenna SiddalsDiary of a Worm, Doreen CroninDirt, Steve TomecekEarthworms, Claire LlewellynAn Earthworm's Life, John HimmelmanGarbage Helps Our Garden Grow, Linda GlaserUp in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, Kate MessnerWinnie Finn, Worm Farmer, Carol BrendlerYucky Worms, Vivian French

The EnvironmentAll the Water in the World, George Ella Lyon and Katherine TillotsonBe A Friend to Trees, Patricia LauberDid a Dinosaur Drink This Water? Robert E. WellsOne Well, The Story of Water on Earth, Rochelle Strauss

FruitsBeautiful Bananas! Elizabeth LairdCranberries, Fruit of the Bogs, Diane L. BurnsEating the Alphabet, Lois EhlertThe First Strawberries, Joseph BruchacGo, Go Grapes, A Fruit Chant, April Pulley Sayre The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear, Don and

Audrey WoodLunch, Denise Fleming

Garden FantasyThe Boy Who Loved Broccoli, Sarah A. CreightonCreepy Carrots, Aaron ReynoldsGrandpa Green, Lane SmithI Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, Lauren ChildJack and the Hungry Giant, Loreen LeedyJune 29. 1999, David WiesnerThe Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, William JoyceThe Little Gardener, Emily HughesMy Garden, Kevin HenckesPinkalicious Fairy House, Victoria KannThe Talking Vegetables, Won-Ldy Paye, Margaret H. LippertThe Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter Weslandia, Paul Fleichman

Garden Poetry Busy in the Garden, George ShannonI Heard It From Alice Zucchini, Poems About the Garden, Juanita HavillThe Popcorm Astronauts, Deborah RuddellSeeds, Bees, Butterflies and More! Poems for Two Voices, Carole Gerber

GardeningAnywhere Farm, by Phyllis RootCity Green , DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan The Curious Garden, Peter Brown First Peas to the Table, Susan Grigsby Flower Garden, Eve BuntingThe Gardener, Sarah StewartHow Does My Garden Grow? Gerda MullerHow Groundhog’s Garden Grew, Lynne Cherry Growing Colors, by Bruce McMillanIf You Plant a Seed, Kadir NelsonIn the Garden, Gallimard Jeunesse Jack’s Garden, Henry ColeLily's Garden, Deborah KoganLinnea in Monet's Garden, Christina Bjork, Lena AndersonPlanting a Rainbow, Lois ElhertScarlette Bean, Karen WallaceSunflower House, Eve BuntingThe Surprise Garden, Zoe HallUp, Down, and Around, Katherine AyresUp in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, Kate MessnerWater, Weed, and Wait, Edith Hope FineWhat’s in the Garden? Marianne BerkesWhose Garden Is It? Mary Ann HobermanZinnia’s Flower Garden, Monica WellingtonZora’s Zucchini, Katherine Pryor

GrainsBread Comes to Life, George LevensonThe Little Red Hen, Paul Galdone or Jerry PinkneyThe Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza, Philemon SturgesOne Grain of Rice, DemiPancakes, Pancakes! Eric Carle

Plant Parts and Life CyclesAmazing Plant Powers, Loreen LeedyCooking With Sunshine, How Plant Make Food, Ellen LawrenceFrom Bulbs to Daffodils, Ellen WeissFrom Seed to Plant, Allan Fowler From Seed to Plant, Gail GibbonsA Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds, Jean Richards Living Sunlight, Molly Bang, Penny ChisholmOh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants,

Bonnie Worth One Bean, Anne RockwellPhotosynthesis: Changing Sunlight Into Food,

Bobbie KalmanPick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, Lola M SchaeferPlants Feed Me, Lizzy RockwellPlants in Winter, Joanna ColePlants That Never Bloom, Ruth HellerSeed, Soil, and Sun, Cris PetersonTops and Bottoms, Janet Stevens Up, Down, and Around, Katherine AyresWhat Do Roots Do, Kathleen V. Kudlinski

PumpkinsHow Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? Margaret McNamara Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden, George Levenson Pumpkin Day, Nancy Elizabeth WallacePumpkins on the Vine, Theresa Doyle-JonesToo Many Pumpkins, Linda White

SeedsThe Bad Seed, Jory JohnThe Carrot Seed, Ruth Kraus, Crockett JohnsonThe Empty Pot, DemiFlip, Float, Fly, Seeds on the Move,

JoAnn Early MackenMiss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney

Seeds continued A Place to Grow, Stephanie BloomA Seed in Need, Sam GodwinA Seed is Sleepy, Dianna Hutts Aston One Little Seed, Elaine GreensteinSeeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow , Joanna ColeThe Tiny Seed, Eric Carle

VegetablesEat Your Peas, Louise, Pegeen SnowEating the Alphabet, Lois EhlertGrowing Vegetable Soup, Lois EhlertLunch, Denise FlemingNo More Vegetables, Nicole RubelOliver's Vegetables, Vivian FrenchPopcorn, Elaine LandauThe Popcorn Book, Tomie De PaolaRah Rah Radishes, A Vegetable Chant, April Pulley SayreTalia and the Rude Vegetables, Linda Elovitz Marshall The Turnip, Jan BrettTwo Old Potatoes and Me, John Coy, Carolyn FisherThe Ugly Vegetables, Grace LinThe Vegetables We Eat, Gail GibbonsWho Grew My Soup? Tom Darbyshire

Farms and ProductionCentury Farm, Cris PetersonChocolate, A Sweet History, Sandra MarkleChristmas Farm, Mary Lynn RayChristmas Tree Farm, by Ann PurcellExtra Cheese, Please! Cris PetersonFarming, Gail GibbonsFrom Cacao Bean to Chocolate, Ali MitgutschFrom T-Shirt to Cotton. by Robin NelsonHarvest Year, Cris PetersonHow Did That Get in My Lunchbox, Chris ButterworthHow Monkeys Make Chocolate, Adrian ForsythPick a Circle, Gather Squares; A Fall Harvest of Shapes, Felicia CherneskySleep Tight Farm, Eugenie DoyleSoybean A-Z, Susan Anderson and JoAnne BuggeySoybeans In the Story of Agriculture, Susan Anderson and JoAnne BuggeyThe Story of Chocolate, C.J. PolinWeaving the Rainbow George, Ella Lyon

BiographiesFarmer George Plants a Nation, Peggy ThomasFolks Call Me Appleseed John, Andrew GlassGeorge Washington Carver, The Peanut Wizard, Laura DriscollJohn Chapman, The Man Who Was Johnny Appleseed, Carol GreeneJohn Deere, That’s Who, Tracy MaurerJohnny Appleseed, Will MosesThe Life of George Washington Carver, Stephne KrenskyMaker of Machines A Story About Eli Whitney, Babara MitchellA Picture Book of George Washington Carver, David A AdlerPioneer Plowmaker A Story About John Deere, David R CollinsThe Real Johnny Appleseed, Laurie LawlorA Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, Aliki