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Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


999 Frogs Wake Up
By: Ken Kimura
Age Level: 3-6 years old

About Birds/Sobre los parjaros
By: Catherine Sill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Handsome, realistic illustrations accompanied by straightforward information about North...

Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
By: Kwame Alexander
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A howling wolf, a stalking tiger, a playful panda, a dancing bird — pairing the beautiful...

Animal Dads
By: Sneed Collard
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Lush collage illustration and clear text share information about male animals and how they care...

Animals: A First Art Book
By: Lucy Micklethwait
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Ants
By: Mari Schuh
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Bear Came Along
By: Richard T. Morris
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of...

Bees, Snails & Peacock Tails
By: Betsy Franco
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Lyrical language and textured collages poetically convey the wonder of patterns and shapes in...

Beetle Bop
By: Denise Fleming
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why
By: Lita Judge
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Can You See Me?
By: Ted Lewin
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Sharp eyes are needed to see most of the well-camouflaged creatures in the Costa Rican...

Cat Says Meow and Other An-i-mal-o-poe-ia
By: Michael Arndt
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The sounds familiar animals make (squeak, meow, oink, etc.) are each presented in a simple...

Crustacean Vacation
By: Brian Benoit
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Cuddled and Carried / Consentido y cargado
By: Dia Michels
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Bilingual book celebrates the bond between parent and child in the animal kingdom. Babies —...

Daytime Nighttime
By: William Low
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Richly hued, lush, realistic illustrations answer the question of what a child might see during...

Diary of a Worm
By: Doreen Cronin
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas
By: Lynne Cox
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Most elephant seals live in the ocean but one prefers the Avon River in Christchurch, New...

Every Autumn Comes the Bear
By: Jim Arnosky
Age Level: 3-6 years old
As the seasons change, a large black bear prepares for hibernation. In his search for a den, he...

Fabulous Frogs
By: Martin Jenkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Endpages show swimming tadpoles; turn the page and the progression from tadpole to frog appears...

Fleabag
By: Helen Stephens
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Flight of the Honey Bee
By: Raymond Huber
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Follow the flight of a honey bee as she searches for nectar to sustain her hive and, along the...

Good Dog, Carl
By: Alexandra Day
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A lovable Rottweiler named Carl has everthing under control while Mom steps out on an errand. Or...

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
By: Rita Gray
Age Level: 3-6 years old
As two children take a walk, they observe and listen to the call of familiar birds – a mourning...

Have You Seen My Duckling?
By: Nancy Tafuri
Age Level: 3-6 years old
An anxious mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling...

Hello Hello
By: Brendan Wenzel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Say hello to a dazzling array of animals presented in intriguing groupings. Starting with “Hello...

Henry's Map
By: David Elliot
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Henry is a very particular sort of pig. "A place for everything and everything in its place," he...

Here Come the Humpbacks!
By: April Sayre
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction

How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships
By: Robin Page, Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Unlikely animals work together to the benefit of both as do more usual pairings such as dogs and...

How to Heal a Broken Wing
By: Bob Graham
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
In a city full of hurried people, only young Will notices the bird lying hurt on the ground....

I Spy in the Sky
By: Edward Gibbs
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Die-cuts let readers 'spy' a portion of an animal while text provides clues as to what it might...

If You Want to See a Whale
By: Julie Fogliano
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Inch by Inch
By: Leo Lionni
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Just One Bite: 11 Animals and Their Bites at Life Size!
By: Lola Schaefer
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A dot of "dirt (and everything in it)" is a meal for the earthworm seen in a stylized, double...

Leopard & Silkie: One Boy's Quest to Save the Seal Pups
By: Brenda Peterson
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Let's Get a Pup! Said Kate
By: Bob Graham
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Her parents are receptive to Kate's suggestion, "Let's get a pup!" and head...

Make Way for Ducklings
By: Robert McCloskey
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for...

Mama Built a Little Nest
By: Jennifer Ward
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Meet the Howlers
By: April Sayre
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Meet a family of howler monkeys (who get their name from the loud calls they make "Woo-hoo-...

Montessori: Map Work
By: Bobby George, June George
Age Level: 3-6 years old
"Our world is made of land and water." The land is called CONTINENTS; the water OCEANS. Select...

One Gorilla: A Counting Book
By: Anthony Browne
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Orangutan
By: Susi Eszterhas
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Out on the Prairie
By: Donna Bateman
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Sounds of the Wild: Bugs
By: Maurice Pledger
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Stripes of All Types
By: Susan Stockdale
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Suryia Swims! The True Story of How an Orangutan Learned to Swim
By: Bhagavan Antle, Thea Feldman
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Swamp Chomp
By: Lola Schaefer
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
As swamp residents move, water ripples and the creatures munch, gulp, swallow and more. Short,...

Temple Cat
By: Andrew Clements
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshipped and cared for in a reverent...

The Butterfly Garden
By: Laura Weston
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The life cycle of a monarch butterfly begins with an egg and a feast by caterpillars; each...

The Honey Makers
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Honeybee Man
By: Lela Nargi
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
By: Jerry Pallotta
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Secret Life of the Red Fox
By: Laurence Pringle
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A year in the life of Vixen, a red fox, reveals how these canine omnivores live, hunt, and...

Trout Are Made of Trees
By: April Sayre
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction

Undersea Animals: A Dramatic Dimensional Visit to Strange Underwater Realms
By: Jane Buxton
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Waiting for Wings
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old

We're Sailing to Galapagos: A Week in the Pacific
By: Laurie Krebs
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Two people in bright, stylized garb sail to the islands known as the Galapagos. On successive...

When You Wander: A Search-and-Rescue Dog Story
By: Margarita Engle
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A golden retriever with a "smart nose" is doing his job: tracking down a young child lost in the...

Who Has These Feet?
By: Laura Hulbert
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Whose Chick Are You?
By: Nancy Tafuri
Age Level: 3-6 years old
As the sun rose, an egg was ready to hatch but whose chick was it? "Whose egg is this?...

Why Do We Need Bees?
By: Emily Bone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Why do we need bees? Where do they live? Who's who in a beehive? This lift-the-flap book answers...

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?...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


A Boy and a Jaguar
By: Alan Rabinowitz
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they...

A Horse in the House and Other Strange but True Animal Stories
By: Gail Ablow
Age Level: 6-9 years old

About Hummingbirds: A Guide for Children
By: Catherine Sill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Easy to read text and lush, realistic illustrations provide an accessible but authoritative look...

About Parrots: A Guide for Children
By: Cathryn Sill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Some fly, others only walk but regardless of where they live or what they eat, the parrots...

Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective
By: David Biedrzycki
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Amazing Animal Adventures Around the World
By: Brian Keating
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Travel with Canadian naturalist Brian Keating on a journey around the world to meet some of the...

Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world...

Ants
By: Deborah Hodge
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Beaks!
By: Sneed Collard
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Beavers
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Beavers are fascinating animals. They build their own homes and live in family groups. They keep...

Beneath the Sun
By: Melissa Stewart
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Birds of a Feather
By: Jane Yolen
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Bowhead Whale
By: Joanasie Karpik
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Meet bowhead whales in this slim but fact-filled volume. Dramatic illustrations add detail and...

Butterflies
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Stunning full-color photographs and tantalizing text introduce these fascinating creatures and...

Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
In this story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help...

City Cat
By: Kate Banks
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The travels of an independent black cat parallel that of a family of four. Both start and end in...

Creature Features
By: Steve Jenkins, Robin Page
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Meet a variety of animals face-to-face and then learn about some of their most unique features....

Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs
By: Carol Murray
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Short poems present a range of familiar insects from crickets to Monarch butterflies. Each is...

Crocodile Safari
By: Jim Arnosky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Noted naturalist, Arnosky, trekked through Florida's Everglades to count crocodiles, the...

Dolphins
By: Penelope Arlon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Splendid photographs are used along with a crisp, easier to read narrative to introduce dolphins...

Eggs
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest
By: Irene Kelly
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Birds live all over the world, but their nests come in many sizes, shapes, and some even borrow...

Face to Face with Manatees
By: Brian Skerry
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Face to Face with Sharks
By: David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Underwater photographers, Hayes & Doubilet, provide basic information about their work as...

Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems/Aleteo y Zumbido: Poemas de Animales
By: Julie Paschkis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Short poems about animals appear in English and Spanish accompanied by textured illustrations...

Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles
By: Philippe Cousteau, Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
To help baby loggerhead turtles find their way back to the sea, a group of children involve...

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Featuring charming visuals and lively, often lyrical prose, this picture book introduces Mexican...

Frog Song
By: Brenda Guiberson
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Frogs! Strange and Wonderful
By: Laurence Pringle
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Help Me, Mr. Mutt! Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems
By: Janet Stevens, Suzanne Stevens
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Mr. Mutt responds to canine concerns, writing practical advice letters. He shares his Dogwood...

Henry and Mudge: The First Book
By: Cynthia Rylant
Age Level: 6-9 years old
There are no other kids on Henry's block so his parents agree that a dog to play with will...

Home for a Penguin, Home for a Whale
By: Brenda Williams
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
With lyrical rhymes, readers explore a dazzling underwater menagerie. Each rhyming couplet gives...

Information Graphics: Animal Kingdom
By: Simon Rogers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An eclectic collection of factoids about animals is presented in an eye-catching, brightly...

Leaving the Nest
By: Mordicai Gerstein
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A baby jay, a small stripped kitten and a little girl with a bike come together in an unexpected...

Lizards
By: Nic Bishop
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Known for his close-up, full-color photographs of animals in the wild, Bishop turns his lens to...

Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
By: Annette Cate
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lucky Dog: Twelve Tales of Rescued Dogs
By: Randi Barrow, Marlane Kennedy, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Alexander London
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lucy in the City: A Story About Developing Spatial Thinking Skills
By: Julie Dillemuth
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Lucy in the City is about a young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has...

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
By: Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A sweet retelling of the Cuban folktale, full of puns and a sprinkling of Spanish. When it...

Monster Hunt: Exploring Mysterious Creatures
By: Jim Arnosky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Author/illustrator and self-taught naturalist Jim Arnosky introduces mysteries that surround...

Mosquito Bite
By: Alexandra Siy, Dennis Kunkel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Two children play hide and seek outdoors on a warm night. Little do they know that a culex, a...

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
By: Alicia Porter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

Mush! Sled Dogs of the Iditarod
By: Joe Funk
Age Level: 6-9 years old

My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
By: Paul Meisel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The narrator was born on May 17th, a “sunny spring day!” On May 19th, she ate lots of aphids but...

Nat Geo Wild Animal Atlas: Earth's Astonishing Animals and Where They Live
By: National Geographic Kids
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Dramatic photographs, attention-grabbing facts, and clear maps introduce a world of animals and...

National Geographic Kids Bird Guide of North America
By: Jonathan Alderfer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nature Log Kids: A Kid's Journal to Record Their Birding Experiences
By: DeAnna Brandt
Age Level: 6-9 years old

No Monkeys, No Chocolate
By: Melissa Stewart, Allen Young
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Olinguito, de La A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z!
By: Lulu Delacre
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Animals from the Ecuadorian Andes cloud forest are introduced in stunning illustrations and...

Olivia's Birds: Saving the Gulf
By: Olivia Bouler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
One 11 year-old girl can make a difference, as young ornithologist and artist Olivia Bouler has...

Otters Love to Play
By: Jonathan London
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Head to the river, where a frolicsome bunch of otters plays all year round. Follow the baby...

Over and Under the Pond
By: Kate Messner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Discover the plants and animals that make up the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain...

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
By: Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City
By: Janet Schulman
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Pika: Life in the Rocks
By: Tannis Bill
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Planning a visit to the mountains of the American West this summer? If you're sharp-eyed,...

Polar Bears
By: Mark Newman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Striking photographs combine with readable text to provide an introduction to polar bears. Text...

Presidential Pets: The Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals That Have Lived in the White House
By: Julia Moberg
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The White House has hosted U.S. Presidents and their families which have often included First...

Python
By: Christopher Cheng
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction

Roberto: The Insect Architect
By: Nina Laden
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect....

Seabird in the Forest: The Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet
By: Joan Dunning
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The mystery of why a Pacific seabird nests inland has only recently been solved. Lyrical...

Snails Are Just My Speed!
By: Kevin McCloskey
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Did you know that snails build “roads of slimy mucus”, other snails can follow those trails,...

Snow School
By: Sandra Markle
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Spiders and Their Webs
By: Darlyne Murawski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A biologist introduces spiders and their webs through stunning full color close-up photographs...

Spunky Tells All
By: Ann Cameron
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Story Worlds Nature
By: Thomas Hegbrook
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Examine each double page spread in this oversized book. See the realistically pictured animals...

Super Sniffers: Dog Detectives On the Job
By: Dorothy Hinshaw Hinshaw Patent
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Bee Tree
By: Patricia Polacco
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When Mary Ellen gets bored with her reading, Grandpa knows a hunt for a bee tree is just what...

The Bee-Man of Orn
By: Frank Stockton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An aged Bee-man lives contentedly among his insect friends, surviving on honey and the...

The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing?
By: Shelly Rotner, Anne Woodhull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Bees have been around for over 65 million years but have been in decline since early in the 21st...

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 Life and Times of the Honeybee
By: Charles Micucci
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Life Cycle of a Honeybee
By: Bobbie Kalman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Learn about each stage of a honeybee's life cycle from egg to adult. Full-color photographs,...

The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive
By: Joanna Cole
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Readers know they're with Ms. Frizzle and her class when the bus is disguised as a bee and...

The One and Only Ivan
By: Katherine Applegate
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ivan lives in a "domain" at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall. In evocative language and gentle...

The Real Poop on Pigeons
By: Kevin McCloskey
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When a couple complains about pigeons in the park, two children in pigeon costumes come to give...

The Stunning Science of Everything: Science with the Squishy Bits Left In
By: Nick Arnold, Tony De Saulles
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Sophisticated young scientists will enjoy dipping in and out of this funny but edifying...

The Truth about Hippos
By: Maxwell Eaton III
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Hippos are denser than water and so sink in water. Plus, they can’t actually swim but push off...

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jane watched animals. Her ability to quietly observe allowed her to learn about animals up close...

There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me
By: Loreen Leedy, Pat Street
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
By: Jim Arnosky
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The author/illustrator's enthusiasm for the birds he observes is contagious in this artful...

Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger
By: Ann Whitehead Nagda
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo is orphaned when he is just a few weeks old. Through...

Wackiest White House Pets
By: Katherine Gibbs Davis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How are dogs, alligators, sheep, cats, and a host of other animals similar? They've all...

Wanted! A Guinea Pig Named Henry
By: Wendy Orr
Age Level: 6-9 years old

What If There Were No Bees?
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live...

What's Your Favorite Animal?
By: Eric Carle
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When 13 well-known illustrators are asked about their favorite animal, the results are as varied...

When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone
By: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Stunning photographs combine with a clear text to show how early use of Yellowstone, changed it...

Wilderness: An Interactive Atlas of Animals
By: Hannah Pang
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A conversational tone and flaps to lift on each double page look at different biomes are sure to...

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...

Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale Told in Haiku
By: Lee Wardlaw
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Won Ton the cat is back with a new arrival: a puppy! How the adult cat and small dog get on – or...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
By: Loree Griffin Burns
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the...

Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
By: Sy Montgomery
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Glow: Animals with Their Own Nightlights
By: W.H. Beck
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Why be afraid of the dark when there is so much to see? Whether it’s used to hunt, hide, find a...

Leaf Litter Critters
By: Leslie Bulion
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Default blurb text. Just the good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm. Beats all you've ever saw,...

Least Things: Poems about Small Natures
By: Jane Yolen
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Short poems (haiku) were written in response to but also evoke creatures shown in crisp close-up...

Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America’s Own Backyard
By: Mary Kay Carson
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Science Comics: Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter
By: Joe Flood
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Sharks often get a bad reputation from movies and television but they’re crucial to a healthy...

Slickety Quick: Poems About Sharks
By: Skila Brown
Age Level: 9-12 years old
A poem about the well-known Great White begins this handsomely illustrated collection of poems...

The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
By: Sy Montgomery
Age Level: 9-12 years old