Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Print ListAll the Water in the World
By: George Ella Lyon
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Rich, rhythmic language combines with lush illustration to poetically describe the water cycle...
Blizzard
By: John Rocco
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The now infamous Blizzard of 1978 brought fifty-three inches of snow to John Rocco’s childhood ...
Cloudette
By: Tom Lichtenheld
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Sometimes being small can have its advantages. If you’re a little cloud like Cloudette, people...
Clouds
By: Anne Rockwell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Learn about 10 different types of clouds — cirrus, stratus, and cumulus — as well as...
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
By: Judi Barrett
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Residents of Chewandswallow were accustomed to their predictable weather which kept them in...
Come On, Rain
By: Karen Hesse
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Tessie, the child narrator, is the first to see the long-awaited rain clouds form. She and her...
Finn Throws a Fit
By: David Elliott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Hurricane!
By: Jonathan London
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Told from the perspective of a boy who witnesses the sky growing ominously purple and rushes to...
I Am the Storm
By: Jane Yolen, Heidi Stemple
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Warm family stories of finding the joy in preparedness and resilience in four distinct weather...
Kate, Who Tamed the Wind
By: Liz Garton Scanlon
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A wild wind blows on the tippy-top of a steep hill, turning everything upside down for the man...
Kite Flying
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The young narrator describes how she and her family each contribute to a handsome kite which...
Like a Windy Day
By: Frank Asch, Devin Asch
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A child imagines being like the wind: playing with hats and leaves, zooming and racing...
On the Same Day in March
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Otis and the Tornado
By: Loren Long
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Rain
By: Sam Usher
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Sam wants to go out but it’s pouring with rain, so he and Grandpa decide to stay inside until...
Rain
By: Manya Stojic
Age Level: 3-6 years old
When rain comes to the parched African savanna, the animals use all their senses to track the...
Rain Play
By: Cynthia Cotten
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Sun
By: Sam Usher
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
This rhyming read-aloud celebrates how we’re all connected under the sun. As readers are...
Thanking the Moon
By: Grace Lin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Blizzard
By: Betty Ren Wright
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Snowy Day
By: Ezra Jack Keats
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The...
The Weather Girls
By: Aki
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Sixteen busy girls introduce readers to the different weather associated with the seasons as...
The Wind Blew
By: Pat Hutchins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s...
This Beautiful Day
By: Richard Jackson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Filled with motion and rhythm, this celebration of rain follows three children as they start a...
Thunder Cake
By: Patricia Polacco
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Waiting Out the Storm
By: JoAnn Early Macken
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Water Is Water
By: Miranda Paul
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Lyrical language and handsome, realistic watercolors present water in its many forms, from...
Watersong
By: Tim McCanna
Age Level: 3-6 years old
In onomatopoeia, the author takes the reader on a wonderful journey as a fox seeks shelter from...
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
By: Traci Sorell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Sorell, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, offers readers a look at contemporary Cherokee life as...
Weather: Poems for All Seasons
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Wild Weather
By: Katharine Kenah
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Wolf in the Snow
By: Matthew Cordell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home?...
Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm
By: Laura Purdie Salas
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Poetry
Explore the life cycle of a thunderstorm and follow along as the weather changes, from a blue-...
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Print ListA Boy Asked the Wind
By: Barbara Nickel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
A whimsical dance around the world on the shoulders of the world’s most celebrated winds,...
A Drop of Water
By: Walter Wick
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Filled with stop-action and close-up photography, this book features images like a single...
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Weather
By: Kathleen Kudlinski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Ancient Sumerian warriors used to think that lightning and thunder were caused by an angry...
Breaking Through the Clouds: The Sometimes Turbulent Life of Meteorologist Joanne Simpson
By: Sandra Nickel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
When Joanne Simpson, the first woman to receive a doctorate in meteorology, was a girl, she...
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
By: Verna Aardema
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The tale of herdsman Ki-pat is set on a dry African plain and is told in the familiar cadence of...
Down Comes the Rain
By: Franklyn Branley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll
By: Franklyn Branley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Groundhog Weather School
By: Joan Holub
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Professor Groundhog opens a school so groundhogs can learn to accurately forecast the weather...
Heat Wave
By: Eileen Spinelli
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The mercury is climbing in Lumberville, and the folks are doing everything they can to keep cool...
How Artists See The Weather
By: Colleen Carroll
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
See how Vincent van Gogh used bright patches of paint to show the hot sun rising over a field;...
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
By: Rosalyn Schanzer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Hurricane
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As the sky grays and the leaves swirl by in a "green blizzard," two young boys and...
Hurricanes
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Hurricanes, their origin and their destructive power (as well as their relatives, the tropical...
Hurricanes
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Imagine a force that can toss boats around like toys, wash away bridges, and create waves as...
I Face the Wind
By: Vicki Cobb
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Children are encouraged to observe as experiment as they learn about wind and air as well as...
If You Lived Here: Houses of the World
By: Giles Laroche
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Iggy Peck, Architect
By: Andrea Beaty
Age Level: 6-9 years old
It's Raining
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Kissimmee Pete and the Hurricane
By: Jan Day
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Lola Shapes the Sky
By: Wendy Greenley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A cloud with a mind of her own and a gift for making awe-inspiring shapes encourages her friends...
Look at the Weather
By: Britta Teckentrup
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This immersive nonfiction title is just as much about feelings about the weather as it is about...
Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
By: Joanna Cole
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Count on Ms. Frizzle to teach anything but an ordinary lesson on meteorology. Flying through the...
National Geographic Kids Everything Weather
By: Kathy Furgang
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Weather can be wild, freaky, and fascinating! Powerful twisters roar through homes; earthquakes...
Pattan's Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India
By: Chitra Soundar
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this retelling of the flood myth, young Pattan's amazing pumpkin grows big enough to save the...
Sector 7
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Wondrous things happen in the skies above Manhattan in this wordless book that explores what...
Snow Birds
By: Kirsten Hall
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Snow Is Falling
By: Franklyn Branley
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Snow is magical and beautiful and sometimes even dangerous. Through both observation and...
Snowflake Bentley
By: Jacqueline Martin Briggs
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Strong lines and narrative combine in this picture book biography of the Vermonter who figured...
The Big Storm
By: Bruce Hiscock
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops...
The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding
By: Karina Nicole González
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
The coquí frogs sing to Elena until home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to...
The Fog
By: Kyo Maclear
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
When a fog rolls into Icyland, it prevents Warble, a small yellow warbler, from enjoying his...
The Kid's Book of Weather Forecasting
By: Mark Breen, Kathleen Friestad
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this hands-on science book, kids learn how to make a barometer, record their observations in...
The Legend of Lightning and Thunder
By: Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The Longest Storm
By: Dan Yaccarino
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
No one knew where the strange storm came from, or why it lasted so long. The family at the...
The Weather's Bet
By: Ed Young
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In the retelling of this Aesop fable, the wind, rain, and sun compete to make a shepherd take...
The Wild Weather Book
By: Fiona Danks
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Thunder Rose
By: Jerdine Nolan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
In this tall tale, Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong,...
Tornado! The Story Behind these Twisting, Turning, Spinning and Spiraling Storms
By: Judith Fradin
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Tornadoes
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
One of nature’s most volatile weather events is the tornado. In this updated edition, the author...
Weather
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
What causes the weather and its patterns? How do we measure weather? All your meteorological...
Weather Words and What They Mean
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Award-winning nonfiction writer Gibbons clearly explains and illustrates four big weather...
What Will the Weather Be?
By: Lynda DeWitt
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
By: Joyce Sidman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How animals survive — even thrive — in winter is presented in a variety of poetic forms, each...
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Print ListClimate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways We Can Save Our Planet
By: Laura Gehl
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Meet fourteen different scientists who are working to solve the climate crisis and the...
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Matthew Henson, an African American explorer, accompanied Robert Peary to the North Pole where...
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
By: Rochelle Strauss
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single...
Stickmen’s Guide to Earth’s Atmosphere in Layers
By: Catherine Chambers
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen. Then fly down, down, down to atmospheric...