April Picture Books
April is full of life, color, and discovery! This month’s picture books celebrate the beauty of spring in full bloom—gardens growing, birds nesting, rain showers falling, and blossoms everywhere. Springtime stories invite children to slow down, look closely, and delight in the wonder of the world coming back to life.
My personal favorites are Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow and Springtime in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren. Miss Rumphius is a close runner-up.
And Then It’s Spring
(Julie Fogliano)
Springtime in Noisy Village
(Astrid Lindgren)
Children of the Forest
(Elsa Beskow)
Quiet
(Tomie dePaola)
Sometimes Rain
(Meg Fleming)
Worm Weather
(Jean Taft)
Who Likes Rain?
(Wong Herbert Yee)
Ten Seeds
(Ruth Brown)
Miss Rumphius
(Barbara Cooney)
Butterfly Park
(Elly MacKay)
We Are the Gardeners
(Joanna Gaines)
Flower Garden
(Eve Bunting)
Jack’s Garden
(Henry Cole)
Wildflower Blooms and Blossoms
(Dianne Burns)
A Nest is Noisy
(Dianna Aston)
An Egg is Quiet
(Dianna Aston)
Pick, Pull, Snap!
(Lola M. Schaefer)
From Seed to Plant
(Gail Gibbons)
Secrets of the Vegetable Garden
(Carron Brown)
Spring: An Alphabet Acrostic
(Steven Schnur)
Ava’s Poppy
(Marcus Pfister)
Painting a Rainbow
(Lois Ehlert)
Growing Vegetable Soup
(Lois Ehlert)
Tap the Magic Tree
(Christie Matheson)
The Boy Who Drew Birds
(Jacqueline Davies)
Birds Nests and Eggs
(Mel Boring)
The Robins in Your Backyard
(Nancy Carol Willis)
First the Egg
(Laura Seeger)
Born in the Wild
(Lita Judge)
Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
(Julia Rawlinson)
When Spring Comes
(Kevin Henkes)
Mud
(Mary Lyn Ray)
