Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris

Books like Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

By Shawn Harris

For the kid who stops mid-walk to stare at a dandelion, this book slows down and stares right alongside them. Quiet, dreamy, and wide-eyed, with a rhythm that invites lingering rather than rushing.

A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry

A gentle look at all the reasons trees are good to have around — for climbing, for shade, for leaf piles to roll in, and for birds to build nests in.

Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman

A year moves through spring, summer, autumn, and winter as each season is felt through its colors — red singing from treetops, blue dancing on summer lakes, green waiting quietly in winter trees.

Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell

A boy names his first carved jack-o'-lantern Jack, then watches it slowly rot in the garden through winter and sprout into a new pumpkin plant by spring.

I Am Smoke by Henry Herz

Smoke itself speaks in riddles, describing how it has signaled, flavored, healed, and mattered to people across centuries — from ancient fires to sacred ceremonies.

In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming

A rhyming journey through a small pond as spring turns to autumn, following tadpoles, herons, and other creatures through their busy, splashing days.

Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd

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.

I Took a Walk by Henry Cole

A quiet walk through woods, pasture, and pond becomes a chance to spot birds, insects, and other hidden creatures as die-cut flaps fold out to reveal what's really there.

A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis

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 Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds by Jean Richards

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.

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

A nonfiction picture book follows a tree's life from seed to full growth, using bold watercolor collage with real seeds, roots, and wire to show how trees live and change.

Remember by Joy Harjo

A gentle poem asks young readers to remember the sky they were born under, the moon, the sun's dawn birth, and the family and creatures that connect them to the earth.