Celebrate our Earth with children’s books that have themes linked to the natural environment.
* Books that are available in more than one South African language
0-3 year olds
Fiction
* Diphoofolo: Multingual Animal Rhymes by Reviva Schermbrucker (New Africa Books)
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle (Puffin)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Puffin)
Non-fiction
My First Animals: Let’s Squeak and Squawk Touch and Feel: Baby Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Jungle Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Wild Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Baby Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Jungle Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Wild Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Baby Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Jungle Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
Touch and Feel: Wild Animals (Dorling Kindersley)
3-6 year olds
Fiction
*Bushbaby Night by Jeremy Grimsdell (Jacana)
* Clever Busy Bee by Awebahe Johannes Hoeseb & Brendan Ruiters (PRAESA)
* Baby Monkey’s bananas by Sue Hepker & Graeme Viljoen (Cambridge University Press)
* Chameleon’s Clever Trick by Helen Pooler & Monika Hollemann (Cambridge University Press)
Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Dragonfly books)
* Yawning is catching by Beverly Burkett et al (Cambridge University Press)
Wow It’s Great Being a Duck! by Joan Rankin (Songololo)
* The Zebra and the Hyena by Lesley Geekie Daw & Nikki Jones (Jacana)
Non-fiction
Animal Atlas (Dorling Kindersley)
Ask a Bug (Dorling Kindersley)
Eye Know: Plant (Dorling Kindersley)
Eye Know: Tree (Dorling Kindersley)
Eye Wonder: Rain Forest (Dorling Kindersley)
Nature Activities: Bug Hunter (Dorling Kindersley)
Nature Explorer (Dorling Kindersley)
Nick Baker’s Bug Zoo (Dorling Kindersley)
A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry (Harpertrophy)
6-12 year olds
Fiction
Adventures of Riley: Amazon River Rescue by Amanda Lumry, Laura Hurwitz & Sarah McIntyre (Eaglemont Press/Pearson Education South Africa)
Adventures of Riley: Dolphins in danger by Amanda Lumry, Laura Hurwitz & Sarah McIntyre (Eaglemont Press/Pearson Education South Africa)
Adventures of Riley: Mission to Madagascar by Amanda Lumry, Laura Hurwitz & Sarah McIntyre (Eaglemont Press/Pearson Education South Africa)
Adventures of Riley: Tigers in Terai by Amanda Lumry, Laura Hurwitz & Sarah McIntyre (Eaglemont Press/Pearson Education South Africa)
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl (Puffin)
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harpertrophy)
The Lorax by Dr Seuss (HarperCollins)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Puffin)
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (Puffin)
The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith (Puffin)
* The Ugly Duckling by Sindiwe Magona & Natalie Hinrichsen (Jacana)
White Fang by Jack London (Puffin)
Non-fiction
* Drip, trickle, roar by Kerry Saadien-Raad & Claudia Fehr-Levin (Cambridge University Press)
Earth Matters by David Rothschild (Dorling Kindersley)
Evolution Revolution by Robert Winston (Dorling Kindersley)
Look Closer Ocean (Dorling Kindersley)
Nature Activities: Bug Hunter (Dorling Kindersley)
Nature Explorer (Dorling Kindersley)
Nick Baker’s Bug Zoo (Dorling Kindersley)
Teach your granny to text and other ways to change the world by Nick Stanhope (Walker Books)
That’s Life by Robert Winston (Dorling Kindersley)
3-D Pop-ups: Earth (Dorling Kindersley)
Nature Explorer (Dorling Kindersley)
Nick Baker’s Bug Zoo (Dorling Kindersley)
Why Insects Don’t Get Fat by Richard Hammond (Dorling Kindersley)
Wow Earth (Dorling Kindersley)