Spring Books!

Several teachers from mailrings and participants in That's What Happens When It's Spring and Colorful Spring, collaborative online projects, contributed their favorite book titles. Thanks!  If you have a favorite not listed here, please send email.

Colorful Spring by Erin Moran, illustrated by Daniel Pickett
 

A Nest Full of Eggs by Priscilla Belz Jenkins
A Pinky Is A Baby Mouse
by Pam Munoz Ryan
A Seed Is A Promise by Claire Merrill
All About Seeds Melvin Berger
All the Places to Love
by Patricia MacLachlan
And So They Build by Bert Kitchen
Animal Lore & Legend: Rabbit
retold by D.L. Birchfield
Are You Spring?  by Caroline Pitcher
As the Earth Turns Spring by Lynn M. Stone

Beginning to Learn About Spring by Richard Allington
and Kathleen Krull
Bentley and Egg
by William Joyce

Catch That Hat! by Emma Chichester Clark
Chicken and Egg by Christine Back and Jens Olsen
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
by Ruth Heller
Clifford's Spring Clean-up by Norman Bridwell

Dandelions by Mia Posada
Diary of a Sunflower Carol Pugliano  
DK Share-a-Story: Are You Spring?
by Caroline Pitcher
Ducklings and Pollywogs by Anne Rockwell

Egg!  by A.J. Wood
First Day of Spring by Sharon Gordon
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

Hamilton Duck's Springtime Story by Arthur Getz  
Hello, Spring by Mary Packard
Henry & Mudge in Puddle Trouble by Cynthia Rylant
Home Run:  The Story of Babe Ruth by Robert Burleigh
Hopper Hunts for Spring by Marcus Pfister
How Do You Know It's Spring by Allan Fowler
How To Build A home by Maria Fleming

I Love Spring! by Stephen Kroll
I Wish I Were A Butterfly
by James Howe
Insects Are My Life by Megan Mc Donald
It’s Spring by Linda Glaser
It's Spring by Samantha Berger and Pamela Chanko

Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems by Francisco X. Alarcón
    Let’s Find Out About Spring by Martha And Charles Shapp
Let's Look at the Seasons - Springtime by Ann Schweninger

Marshmallow by Claire Turlay Newberry
Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney
Mrs.Toggle's Beautiful Blue Shoe by Robin Pulver
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Mud Flat Spring by James Stevenson
My First Spring by Matthew Lambert 
My Spring Robin by Anne Rockwell

Naomi Knows It Is Springtime by Virginia L. Kroll
Poems for Spring selected by Robert Hull
Poppleton in the Spring by Cynthia Rylant
Possum and the Peeper by Anne Hunter

Rabbit’s Good News by Ruth Lercher Bornstein
Rain by Robert Kolan
Rain Talk by Mary Serfozo        
Rain Drop Splash by Alvin Tresselt
Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco
Robin's Home by Jeannine Atkins

Seeds Grow
by Angela Shelf Medearis
Simon Welcomes Spring
by Gilles Tibo
Spring by Joann Cunningham   
Spring by Ron Hirschi 
Spring : An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur
Spring Changes by Ellen B. Senisi
Spring Comes to the Ocean by Jean Craighead George
Spring is Here by Taro Gomi
Spring Song by Barbara Seuling
Spring's Sprung by Lynn Plourde
Spring Thaw by Steven Schnur
Step Into Spring - A New Season by Jane Belk Moncure
Strawberry Dress Escape by Crescent Dragonwagon
Swamp Spring by Carol and Donald Carrick
Sweet Sidney by Nancy Patz

That's What Happens When It's Spring!
by Elaine W. Good
The Amazing Dirt Book by Paulette Bourgeois
The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton
The Easter Egg Artists by Adrienne Adams
The Egg Tree
by Katherine Milhous
The Great Smokey Mountain Salamander Ball
by Lisa Horstwa
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss
The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie DePaola
The Reason For A Flower
by Ruth Heller
The Reason For Seasons by Gail Gibbons
The Robins in Your Backyard by Nancy Carol Willis
The Seed by Eric Carle
The Spring Rabbit by Joyce Dunbar 
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

This Is the Rain by Jane Wattenberg
Turtle Spring
by Deborah Zagwyn

Waiting for Spring Stories by Bethany Roberts
What Happens in the Spring by Kathleen Costello Beer
When Spring Comes by Robert Maass
When Summer Ends by Susi Gregg Fowler
When The Earth Wakes by Ani Rucki
When Will It Be Spring by Catherine Walters
Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder
Wonderful Worms by Linda Glaser
Word Bird's Spring Words by Jane Belk Moncure

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Hop over to our Easter resources webpage for titles related to bunnies, chocolate, and eggs.

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See the spring book list of 244 titles at amazon.com!

Updated May 18, 2002

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