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


All 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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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


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...

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

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 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

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

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 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 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
Age Level: 9-12 years old


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...