Picture Books about Gardening

Spring has sprung, and we’re celebrating with a roundup of books about GARDENING for kids! 

Don’t forget—Evansville is launching its community garden this year, making this the perfect time to talk about growing your own food plants and flowers with your family!

• The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
• Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
• The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
• The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
• The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A book about how living things grow by Johanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen
• Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

Books About Trees for Kids

This week we celebrate Earth Day with a wonderful local event, the Evansville Energy Fair, on April 24^th. Make sure you stop by the library’s table to do a fun recycled craft project that you can wear home!

In honor of Earth Day, here’s some books that are all about TREES – very appropriate not only for this time of year, but since Evansville is part of Wisconsin’s Tree City program.

• Someday a Tree by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Robert Himler
• Arbor Day Square by Kathryn O. Galbraith, illustrated by Cyd Moore
• Tell me, Tree: all about trees for kids by Gail Gibbons
• A Log’s Life by Wendy Pfeffer
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• A Busy Year by Leo Lionni
• There Was a Tree by Rachel Isadora

Try doing a leaf rubbing (once we finally have some leaves on the trees!) to extend one of these fun picture books into a hands-on activity!

Picture Books About Superheroes!

In case you haven’t heard, HEROES is the theme for the 2015 Summer Library Club! 

We’re getting prepared for a summer of heroic and super activities with a super-reader-themed photo booth at Family Night for Week of the Young Child coming up on April 17th, and so I thought we’d get started this week with a roundup of fun superhero themed picture books for all!

• Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey
• Princess Super Kitty by Antoinette Portis
• Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero by Anne Cottringer, illustrated by Alex T. Smith
• Supersister by Beth Cadena, illustrated by Frank Dormer
• Awesome Dawson by Chris Gall
• The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon, illustrated by Chris Parker
• The Day I Lost My Superpowers by Michaël Escoffier

We hope you enjoy these fun super titles – watch for more information about the Summer Library Club coming up soon!

Books About Construction Trucks

One of our most popular picture book sections, year in and year out, is the TRANSPORTATION section (black bins). Books about different construction vehicles are some of the most favored. 

Here’s a fun list of Construction Truck Books from growingbookbybook.com: 

http://growingbookbybook.com/2014/12/12/books-kids-construction-trucks/#_a5y_p=3015166

You can find many of the titles on this list at the library or online through RockCat:

• Work, Dogs, Work: A Speedy Tail by James Horvath
• Machines at Work by Byron Barton
• Diggers Go by Steve Light
• Construction Kitties by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges, illustrated by Shari Halpern
• Go! Go! Go! Stop! by Charise Mericle Harper
• Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard, illustrated by David Slonim
• Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, illustrated by Tom Lichtenfeld