Youth Book Lists

"In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings."

Illustrations and rhyming text describe all the special things a Puerto Rican boy enjoys doing with his grandparents throughout the year.
**NOTE: This bilingual book is shelved in the Spanish-language section.

Learn about the seasons in Spanish and English in Días y días /Days and Days by the popular team behind the bilingual classics ¡Fiesta! & Siesta.

An Amish girl describes a year in her life and the activities that fill it, from early spring through the following winter.

A counting book depicting the growth in a village and surrounding countryside during twelve months.

From spring through the fall, a young bear and rabbit share the joys of friendship, which remain with them through the winter.

An orange begins its life as a blossom where bees feast on the nectar, and reaches the end of its journey, bursting with the seasons inside it, in the hands of a child.

When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.

In the spring, a blue bird awakens a rabbit and invites him to play, and they enjoy every day together until it is time for the bird to fly south for the winter, with a promise to return again next spring.

An admiring granddaughter hikes in all seasons with Grandma, the quintessential North Woods girl. Together they see squirrels gathering nuts, hear wood frogs peep, inhale piney scents, and choose the finest skipping stone.

Explores, through brief text and illustrations, various aspects of each season of the year.

A picture book comically following one girl through each of the four seasons.

A poem for each month of the year reflects the major and minor events in the life of a young boy.

Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.

The changing nature of their apple tree, as it grows and goes through the seasons, reminds Leigh and Vin of their grandfather, who is gone but lives on in their memories.

Five senses, four seasons. From the sounds of the birds singing in the trees to the feel of the first snowflake, it's a whole year of discovery and changes, a whole year to grow and learn with nature...

A lion finds a wounded bird in his garden and decides to care for it through the winter. When spring arrives, the bird's flock returns. The bird goes off with its flock. Lion is sad. But autumn brings a wonderful surprise.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the seasons of the year and the joy each one brings.

Illustrations and rhyming text explore the sights and sounds of nature in each season of the year.

As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree. Includes a recipe for apple pie and a description of how an apple cider press works.

Text and pictures take us through a year of seasons beginning when spring arrives and a calf is born.

In Fibonacci's Field, Lonely and Chalk Rabbit meet, snuggle together, and then spend a year trying to cope with their ever-increasing brood and the seasonal changes that bring a new challenge each month.

A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors.

Best friends Agnes Pig and Clarabelle Chicken share their favorite activities for each season, from collecting hazelnuts in winter, to celebrating Clarabelle's birthday in spring, to spending a day at the beach in summer, to buying new sneakers in autumn.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.

While looking outside the window, a child sees something new each day and throughout the seasons.

Throughout the seasons the workers at the Village Garage are busy taking care of the town and its residents.

A little boy worries throughout the summer that he's not getting bigger, but at the end of the season he tries on his winter clothes and realizes that he has grown.

A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together.

Twin sisters Ling and Ting have fun together playing in all kinds of weather.

Plant a seed to watch it grow. Press on the cloud to make it rain. Jiggle the book to scatter the seeds. Interactive text teaches very young children how flowers sprout and mature.

Simple words and cut paper illustrations follow an apple as it falls from a tree, becomes part of a school girl's lunch, and is buried through the changing seasons until it sprouts anew.

When the snow falls, a young boy makes a snowman that becomes his friend until the seasons change.

Two native American girls, one from the past and one from the present, live through the seasons, side-by-side, in the warm embrace of their families. The past is nearly 400 years ago, when the Lenape people lived a traditional life barely touched by European traders. The present is contemporary America, as the Lenape continue to adapt to a changing world while remaining close to the land and to each other.
**NOTE: This book is shelved in the Dwight Watson Collection

Every season is full of its own magic, every change brings new excitement, and every experience is better when it's shared.

Ava is delighted when she discovers a red poppy in the field of her house. She sits with the flower in the sunny days of summer and shields it in the rain until one day the petals start to drop and the beautiful flower fades. But when spring comes again, Ava is surpised anew.

As four kittens who have never seen winter watch the seasons pass, three of them declare the reasons they will dislike snow when it arrives, while the fourth cannot wait to experience it for himself.

In every season a little mouse pops out of his hole in the meadow and explores his world, gathering the food and supplies he will need when winter comes.

"However you celebrate the changing of the seasons, every year feels like an extraordinary miracle!"

The months and seasons of the year offer fun times for everyone.

Nature displays different colors to announce the seasons of the year.

A curious bear observes how leaves change throughout the seasons.

Rhyming text provides a descriptive word for each month of the year and takes a country family through the changes and surprises of the year's cycle.

The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.

Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the country he runs straight for Country Frog's rock to play games with him, but during the winter things change for them both.

Follows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home.

A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.

Panda bear, Koo, challenges readers to stretch their minds and imaginations with 26 haikus about the four seasons.

A collection of poems in haiku celebrating the four seasons.

Play with Lilly as the world goes around and the seasons change.

A book of poetry moving through the seasons.