Research Guides: Children's Literature: Science

Lists of Outstanding Science Books

Outstanding Science Trade books
This link includes lists of outstanding science books for children K - 12th grade.

First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit E SEE
ISBN: 9781596432727
Publication Date: 2007-09-04
Transformations - egg to chick, tadpole to frog etc.
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit E HEN
ISBN: 9780060588281
Publication Date: 2004-03-02
Kittens and their first experences.
Snail and Worm Again by Tina Kugler
Call Number: Child Lit E KUG
ISBN: 9780544792494
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Insects and spiders
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page; Steve Jenkins
Call Number: Child Lit E JEN
ISBN: 9780618256280
Publication Date: 2003-03-25
The amazing things animals can do with their feet, legs, tails etc.
Baby Elephant Joins the Herd by Musum Natural History America
Call Number: Child. Lit J 599.67 RIC
ISBN: 9781454932123
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Informational book on elephants
The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O'Connell; Timothy Rodwell (Illustrator); Donna M. Jackson
Call Number: Child. Lit J 599 OCO
ISBN: 9780547053448
Publication Date: 2011-07-11
Environmental and animal conservation
Plume by Isabelle Simler
Call Number: Child. Lit E SIM
ISBN: 9780802854926
Publication Date: 2017-08-14
Bird, their feathers and cats who like to chase them.

Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child. Lit E FED
ISBN: 9780593112625
Publication Date: 2021-06-01

The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton; Tony Persiani (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child. Lit J 535.352 BAR
ISBN: 9781570916731
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
The invention of Day-Glo pigment

Amy's Light by Robert Nutt (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child. Lit E NUT
ISBN: 9781584691280
Publication Date: 2010-03-01
Fireflies
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Call Number: Child. Lit E EHL
ISBN: 9780152053048
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Wind and fall leaves
Outside In by Deborah Underwood
Call Number: Child Lit E-UND
ISBN: 9781328866820
Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Nature - fiction
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child. Lit E CAR
ISBN: 9780887080159
Publication Date: 1991-08-20
Seeds -dispersal
Water Is Water: a book about the water cycle by Miranda Paul; Jason Chin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child. Lit J 551.48 PAU
ISBN: 9781596439849
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
Water cycle

In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit E FLE
ISBN: 9780805022643
Publication Date: 1993-09-15
Seasons and animals that live in a pond.
The Little Island by Golden MacDonald; Margaret Wise Brown; Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child LIt E MAC
ISBN: 9780440408307
Publication Date: 1993-10-01
The four seasons on an island
Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman; Pamela Zagarenski (Illustrator)
Call Number: E SID (Honor book)
ISBN: 9780547014944
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
The four seasons and colors

Float by Daniel Miyares (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit E MIY
ISBN: 9781481415248
Publication Date: 2015-06-09
A wordless picture book about weather.
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Call Number: Child Lit E KEA
ISBN: 9780670654000
Publication Date: 1962-11-05
The first snow fall
Rainbow by Marion Dane Bauer; John Wallace (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit ER BAU
ISBN: 9781481463379
Publication Date: 2016-05-17
Rainbows and how they form
Wind by Marion Dane Bauer; John Wallace (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit ER BAU
ISBN: 9781481462150
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
What is wind and how it can become a storm.

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom; Michaela Goade (Illustrator)
Call Number: Child Lit E - LIN
ISBN: 9781250203557
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
Water pollution and water conservation