Toby the Little Toucan and the Fruit Color Festival
Toby the little toucan invites all his friends to a fruit festival of colors. Monty the monkey puts yellow bananas in...
12 pages · 3 min
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Nature
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About this category
Nature is one of the biggest shelves on the site: 314 books about children and animals noticing something in a forest, pond, savanna or their own garden. Most are for ages 4-6 and 7-9, with more than 50 short books for ages 0-3. All are free to read, listen to and download.
Wally the Little Walrus and the Colors on the Ice
Wally the little walrus sees blue, yellow, and pink sparkles on the ice and wonders where they come from. Pip the sea...
12 pages · 3 min
Little Ibis and the Red Seed Bag
Little Ibis finds a red cloth bag full of seeds near the garden shed. With her friends she asks the Gardener for perm...
12 pages · 3 min
Monty and the Sun Clock Garden
Monty the little weasel watches the shadow of a tall wooden stick move across the garden. With Hopper, Pip, Toby, Nut...
12 pages · 3 min
Benny and the Rainbow Blanket
Benny the Little Yak finds an unfinished patchwork blanket in a mountain cabin and wants to complete it. Sammy picks ...
12 pages · 4 min
Pippa the Little Magpie and the Sharing Chest
Pippa the Magpie finds an empty wooden chest and turns it into a Sharing Chest for the forest. Molly leaves a red rib...
12 pages · 3 min
Molly the Little Manatee and the Coral Garden
Molly the Little Manatee finds a shiny piece of silver paper stuck to a pink coral and knows it doesn't belong there....
12 pages · 4 min
Pip the Little Pangolin and the Leaf Calendar
Pip the little pangolin notices his favorite tree turning from green to gold, so he and his friends line up fallen le...
12 pages · 3 min
Toby the Little Goat and the Cloud Staircase
Toby the little wild goat looks at a line of fluffy clouds over the mountain and sees a staircase to the sky. Sky the...
12 pages · 3 min
Little Kadu and the Quiet Orchestra
Kadu the little cockatoo hears music everywhere: Viri the Frog tapping the water, Tıkı the Woodpecker pecking a beat,...
12 pages · 4 min
Leo the Little Marten and the Flying Seeds
Leo the little marten sees a white seed floating like a parachute and decides to follow it instead of catching it. He...
12 pages · 3 min
Little Fawn and the Rain Garden
Elvin the little fawn spots a raindrop shining like a diamond and dreams of building a garden for the rain to play in...
12 pages · 2 min
What topics do the nature books cover?
Butterfly migration, changing seasons, shadows, echoes, raindrops, rain gardens and even noise pollution. The heroes are sometimes tiny animals and sometimes children keeping an observation notebook.
What ages is this shelf for?
About half the books are for ages 4-6 and about a third for ages 7-9, with 57 for ages 0-3. Longer nature-themed stories for ages 10-12 mostly sit on the adventure and science shelves.
How is this different from the Nature and Discovery genre page?
This page is the broad shelf of every book set in nature, good for browsing. The Nature and Discovery genre page is curated around curiosity, observation and discovery as a story type.
How can I turn a nature story into an outdoor activity?
After Lily and the Little Landscape Notebook, draw a tree outside your window each season. After Lily and the Secret Map of Sounds, list every sound you hear on a walk in the park.
Which books focus on caring for the environment?
Lily and the Butterflies' Migration Path is about planting native flowers, Gigi the giraffe waters a thirsty sapling, and the map of sounds shows how traffic noise affects birds. They handle the subject with small, doable actions rather than fear.
Can I print books for class?
Yes. Download PDF saves the whole book or chosen pages, and some books can also be downloaded as coloring pages.
