March Picture Books
As the snow melts away, March slowly shifts from winter to spring. This month’s picture books are about new life, hope, and renewal. You’ll find stories of seeds sprouting, gardens growing, and nature waking up—alongside meaningful books that point to the joy and wonder of Christ’s Resurrection, while helping to prepare our hearts for Easter.
I have a lot of favorites here! Plant the Tiny Seed is a fun, interactive book that toddlers and preschoolers love! Flower Fairies of the Spring—and the rest of Cicely Mary Barker’s collection—bring back sweet memories for me because my mom kept the set on my dresser when I was a girl.
The Donkey Who Carried a King is a beautifully told story, and Brian Wildsmith’s illustrations in The Easter Story are so intricate and stunning.
Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring
(Kenard Pak)
Busy Spring: Nature Wakes Up
(Taylor & Morss)
Miss Maple's Seeds
(Eliza Wheeler)
A Seed is Sleepy
(Dianna Aston)
Trees, Leaves, and Bark
(Diane Burns)
It Starts with a Seed
(Laura Knowles)
Seeds and Trees
(Brandon Walden)
Flower Fairies of the Spring
(Cicely Mary Barker)
Up in the Garden & Down in the Dirt
(Kate Messner)
Water is Water
(Miranda Paul)
Weather Words
(Gail Gibbons)
The Seedling That Didn’t Want to Grow
(Britta Teckentrup)
The Happy Day
(Ruth Krauss)
Plant the Tiny Seed
(Christie Matheson)
The Carrot Seed
(Ruth Krauss)
The Tiny Seed
(Eric Carle)
The Donkey Who Carried a King
(R. C. Sproul)
The Easter Story
(Anita Ganeri)
The Easter Story
(Brian Wildsmith)
Easter
(Jan Pieńkowski)
The Tale of Three Trees
(Angela Hunt)
The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross
(Carl Laferton)
The Parable of the Lily
(Liz Curtis Higgs)
A Tale for Easter
(Tasha Tudor)
The Golden Egg Book
(Margaret Wise Brown)
The Egg Tree
(Katherine Milhous)
Rechenka’s Eggs
(Patricia Polacco)
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
(DuBose Heyward)
The Easter Egg
(Jan Brett)
Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb
(James Herriot)
The Velveteen Rabbit
(Margery Williams)
The Runaway Bunny
(Margaret Wise Brown)
Thunder Cake
(Patricia Polacco)
Inch By Inch
(Leo Lionni)
Hedgie's Surprise
(Jan Brett)
Daisy Comes Home
(Jan Brett)