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Books to Cultivate Your Little One's Green Thumb

Check out these books to learn more about gardening and where our food comes from!

Greene County Public Library

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  • An informative, yet beautiful, introduction to seeds.
    Book, 2007San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2007. — J 582 As
  • As a boy, a girl, and their chameleon go through their day, they meet a bounty of colorful fruits and vegetables.
    Picture Book, 2025Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2025. — JPB David M
  • A father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup.
    Picture Book, 1987San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1987] — JPB Ehlert L
  • No matter how many obstacles Mr. McGreely puts up to keep the bunnies out of his vegetable garden, the naughty bunnies find ways around them.
    Picture Book, 2001New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. — JPB Fleming C
  • From failed endeavors, obstacles, and lessons learned, the Gaines family shares how they grew a happy, successful garden.
    Book, 2019Nashville, Tennessee : Tommy Nelson, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, [2019] — J 635 Ga
  • Follow Miss MacDonald as she tends to her vegetable farm. It's a rollicking, rhyming read-aloud that ends in a community feast!
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2024. — JPB Gwarjanski K
  • Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in being wonderfully weird.
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc, 2024. — JPB Mandin C
  • Discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves...and down in the dirt.
    Picture Book, 2015San Francisco : Chronicle Books, ©2015. — JPB Messner K
  • What happens when you do everything right, but it doesn’t work out?
    Picture Book, 2025Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2025] — JPB Reul S
  • An illustrated description of seed dispersal by which plants, most specifically fruits, travel from one place to another.
    Book, 2002Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, ©2002. — J 582 Ri
  • Granny may be old, but she's certainly not feeble—or idle! She's built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building.
    Picture Book, 2024Hoboken, N.J. : Levine Querido, 2024. — JPB Tang W
  • Discover a glorious collection of unique gardens filled with plants from all kinds of environments.
    Book, 2025[London] : Magic Cat Publishing, 2025. — J 635 To