2026 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Garden
Let’s get outside and into the garden with this board book list of garden titles for the 2026 Blogging A to Z Challenge. I think teaching kids about nature and gardening at an early age allows them to appreciate it even more. My niece and nephew have helped with the veggie garden at my parent’s house for years and when they were toddlers, they loved picking veggies and popping cherry tomatoes into their mouths! I think given the opportunity, kids will love growing their own foods!
If you’ve got a small space or little outdoor room, try container gardening and plant a couple of flowers or even a strawberry plant! I think that kids will really respond to this STEM lesson in a fun way because who doesn’t love playing in the dirt?!?
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2026 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Garden
Bunny Loves Beans by Jane Whittingham
Preschoolers will explore bright colors, healthy foods, and a variety of adorable animals in this multilayered Big, Little Concepts book. Just like the endearing animals around the world, we eat greens, reds, and blues too! Bunny Loves Beans explores the wonderfully similar and different food that preschoolers and animals both eat.
This fun book serves as a great introduction to fruits and vegetables, and the upbeat language paired with the adorable photographs are sure to encourage your little one to eat their fruits and vegetables! By the end of this book, preschoolers’ will love to eat their greens, yellows, blues, and even pinks with this adorable photographic book!
The rhythmic text is perfect for an energetic read-aloud, and the repetitive language will boost your preschoolers’ word recognition.
Colors in the Garden by Marcos Farina
In the garden you will find…
- Yellow dandelions
- Green clovers
- Pink cherry blossoms
Teach your child early concepts while they delight in the playful depictions of colors found in the garden! Featuring an eclectic collection of plants and animals, children will recognize their favorites and may learn about a new plant or two! Using whitespace and high contrast graphic illustrations, these books make the perfect first gift for baby and toddler development.
Grow, Seed, Grow! by Caroline Derlatka, illustrated by Carole Aufranc
Toddlers will learn all about the how plants grow with theirown hands as they move a seed to the ground, cover it will soil, water it with a metalcan, give it plant food, watch the sun warm it, and then turn a clockto make the plant grow.
One little seed wild and free, blows into the sky and twirls with the breeze. Move it to the ground nice and slow. Let’s make this little seed grow, grow, grow!
Lift-the-flaps, spinners, and pull tabs do all the movement, so little kids can find out how important plants are to our environment!
Hello Garden by Katherine Pryor, illustrated by Rose Soini
Say hello, garden! The sun is up, and it’s time to explore the natural world right outside your door.
- Caterpillars wiggle and butterflies fly as you follow a family on a sensory journey through the sights, sounds, and tastes of their garden.
- Young readers will delight as they imagine their toes touching the dirt and their hands plucking some kale, in this sweet, sensory experience that captures a day enjoying nature while encouraging healthful eating habits and fostering family bonding.
From sunup to sundown, there’s always a warm welcome hello to be found among the inhabitants and vegetation of your own backyard.
Little Snail’s Book of Bugs by Yuval Zommer
Slither and slide with Little Snail and meet all kinds of brilliant bugs and incredible insects on a garden adventure!
Packed with Yuval Zommer’s gorgeous illustrations, fun words to readout loud, and lots of bugs to spot, this chunky board book is perfect for any child with a fascination for creepy crawlies.
Ten species of garden bugs are spotlighted on Little Snail’s journey around the garden. This reimagining of the best-selling The Big Book of Bugs for the youngest readers is designed to instill an early love and curiosity for the natural world.
My First Book of Growing Food by duopress labs, illustrated by Åsa Gilland
Introduce your little one to the joys of growing food with My First Book of Growing Food, a charming board book designed to inspire budding gardeners aged 0-4. Part of the Terra Babies at Home series, this book combines engaging illustrations by Åsa Gilland with simple, playful text to teach children about the wonders of gardening.
From planting lettuce and tomatoes to nurturing herbs like rosemary and mint, toddlers will discover how easy and fun it is to grow their own food. The included 12-step guide to starting an herb garden provides a hands-on activity that families can enjoy together, fostering a connection to nature and healthy eating habits.
Nana’s Garden by Larissa Juliano, illustrated by Francesca De Luca
Explore all of the delights and surprises to be found in NANA’S GARDEN. Join our young gardener as she spends her day picking juicy red tomatoes, counting white daisies in her basket, scooping up caterpillars, hugging her nana under the brown branches, and much more. Larissa Juliano’s joyful wordplay begs to be read aloud again and again to toddlers. The poetic text combines color recognition and counting, while encouraging movement and play. The book’s sturdy format is perfect for little hands. Combines counting and color recognition in a simple and fun-to-read story. A perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Grandparents’ Day, or any time of the year!
Peekaboo, Flowers! by Jillian Miao, illustrated by Riley Samels
Babies and toddlers can play a flower-filled game of peekaboo in this board book teeming with bright plants and garden critters.
With an engaging, rhyming story and bright, details pictures, this sturdy book encourages readers to interact with daffodils, sunflowers, buttercups, and other backyard flowers, introducing them to a garden’s beauty.
Perfect for early morning reading or bedtime snuggles, Peekaboo, Flowers encourages children to appreciate the natural world around them as they develop a love of gardens and learn the names of many favorite plants.
Teeny Tiny Bunny by Rachel Madson
In a teeny tiny garden
Amongst the bugs and weeds,
A teeny tiny bunny
Planted veggie seeds.
The teeny tiny bunny goes on a springtime adventure to look for yummy veggies! But as he hops along the garden path, he realizes he may be too small to collect the perfect-sized carrots. Will the teeny tiny bunny find a way to fill his basket full of treats? Discover this delightful springtime read-aloud, full of vibrant illustrations and bouncy rhymes―perfect for spring and Easter!
Celebrate the seasons with Teeny Tiny!
2026 is my eleventh year participating in the Blogging A to Z Challenge! This year, my theme is Board Books for Babies with a focus on providing book suggestions that parents and caregivers can share with, of course, babies, but also toddlers and preschoolers! Each letter of the alphabet will focus on a different subject and will provide nine titles for each subject. While there are dozens of classic board books out there, this list includes titles published in the past 5-6 years, so you’ll get to learn about new titles, authors, and publishers! Stop by daily to check out the new books and other posts that I’ll be sharing in April.
