Books like A Tree is Nice
By Janice Udry
For the kid who wants to climb something, nap under something, and play in a pile of leaves — all before lunch — this book puts words to why trees matter so much to childhood. Calm, simple, and warm — like a long summer afternoon outside.
A nonfiction exploration of how fruits work as traveling cases for seeds, protecting them and helping plants scatter their seeds to new places to grow.
Two kids leave their paved, noisy neighborhood on an adventure through woods and fields, searching for wildness — and discovering it lives in bark, storms, flowers, and fruit, not just far away.
A single seed falls into the ground, and through sun, rain, and patient time, sprouts roots, a stalk, and leaves — growing into a towering sunflower that makes seeds of its own.
A girl named Alice Rumphius vows to travel the world, live by the sea, and find a way to make the world more beautiful — and spends her life keeping that promise.
A girl and her grandmother gather salmon, herring eggs, and berries across the seasons on their island home, singing to the land as it sings back to them.
Tiny forest children living among the roots of an old pine tree move through a full year of seasons, swimming and picking berries in summer, gathering mushrooms with fairies in fall, and feeding animal friends through the snow.
As the sun comes up, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, and bugs wake one by one, until finally the children rise to greet the day too.
A mother and daughter plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings in their backyard garden, watching them grow into a dazzling rainbow of flowers.
A family farm moves through a full year, from spring planting to morning chores to the first cold rains of autumn, following animals, crops, and the people who tend them.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
A day in the life of family and friends unfolds from morning to night, moving from a tiny shell on the beach to the wide, darkening sunset sky.
