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20+ Books to Enhance Your Spring Lesson Plans

Grow your students’ love for learning with these popular spring titles.

By Scholastic Editors
February 11, 2025

As you're organizing your spring lesson plans this year, stock up on books that inspire students to ask more questions, support learning materials, or can be read aloud when a spring-themed lesson finishes with extra time to spare. 

With captivating themes like plant growth and development, baby animals, and cyclical weather patterns, these books have engaging text and vivid imagery that can be used throughout the year for any lessons about nature.

Explore Scholastic Teachables for more spring-themed resources, including free printables. 

Whether you are introducing STEM concepts with A Seed Is the Start or engaging in a fun-filled Spring search-and-find with I Spy™ an Egg in a Nest, there is something for everyone. If you're refreshing your shelves this season, be sure to also check out these spring-cleaning tips for your classroom library

Shop the top books about spring below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.  

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Frog on a Log?

Grades Pre-K - 1
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A silly read-aloud story with funny rhymes and hilarious illustrations.

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When Spring Comes

Grades Pre-K - 1
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Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and flowers blossom, the grass turns green, and the mounds of snow shrink and shrink. Spring brings baby birds, sprouting seeds, rain and mud, and puddles. You can feel it and smell it and hear it - and you can read it!

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The Very Impatient Caterpillar

Grades K - 2
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Is it time yet? This STEM-focused romp about pupation will tickle little ones who know how hard it is to wait.

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Worm Weather

Grades Pre-K - 1
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While children splash in puddles above, down below an earthworm delights in a rainy day. The lively comparison will delight preschoolers.

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Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring

Grades K - 1
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Say hello and goodbye to the seasons in this gorgeously illustrated picture book as children walk through town and nature.

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Spring Stinks

Grades K - 2
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Ruth the bunny is excited to share the smelly springtime smells of spring with Bruce! But what will Bruce think of all that stink?

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That zany old lady is back, and with a serious case of spring fever! This time she's swallowing items to make the most of the season...with a beautiful garden!

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick!

Grades Pre-K - K
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This time, the hungry old lady swallows a chick, some straw, an egg, some candy, a basket, and a bow! And just as she's hopping and skipping along, who should she meet but the Easter Bunny! 

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Patience pays off for Gus in this sweet and simple story.

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Who Likes Rain?

Grades Pre-K - 1
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In this lyrical picture book, one spunky little girl discovers just who likes rain—and who doesn't—as she explores the rainy-day habits of the world around her.

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In this easy-to-read chapter book, Poppleton the pig charms young readers with his quirky adventures, whimsical ideas, and engaging community of friends! In three wonderful springtime stories, Poppleton tries his hand at spring cleaning, riding a bike, and staying up all night in his new tent.

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In the Spring

Grades K - 1
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Carefully leveled text and supporting photograph provide a joyful exploration of Spring while helping build early reading skills.

 

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Hello Seasons!: Hello Spring!

Grades Pre-K - 2
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Vivid photographs capture changes as plants, animals, and people transition from season to season.

 

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Lola Plants a Garden

Grades Pre-K - 1
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After Lola reads a book of garden poems, she wants to plant some flowers. She gets books from the library and chooses her plants. Then Lola and her mommy buy the seeds, make the garden, and mark the rows. Now it's time to wait...

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I See Plants introduces emergent readers to a variety of common plants while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once.

 

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Grow Flower, Grow!

Grades Pre-K - K
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How do you make a flower grow? 

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Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt

Grades 1 - 3
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Explore the hidden, changing world of a garden, from the leaves, sprouts, and vegetables to the earthworms, snakes, sand animals that make a garden their home.

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Learn all about the plant cycle, from how seeds grow, the fascinating ways they travel, and what it takes for a seed to become a plant.  

New easy-to-read text by Marzollo is paired with Wick's amazing photographs from previous I Spy books to create a fun-filled Spring search-and-find.

 

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Lively texts with bold, bright illustrations will engage children and make these books favorites to return to again and again. Include notes to parents and teachers.

 

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Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Spring Smiles

Grades Pre-K - K
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It's wonderful springtime, and there are so many flowers, leaves, and seeds outside. Siblings Feather, Flap, and Spike want to explore on a sunny day. But will Spike"s sneezes make him the odd dino out? ACHOO!

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Flower Garden

Grades Pre-K - 1
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Bring nature into your classroom with this glorious, picture-book celebration of flowers, growth, and possibility - a fiction offering that makes an innovative and yet seamless connection to seed-planting and science activities.

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Earth Day from the Black Lagoon

Grades 2 - 3
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Funny and upbeat cartoons pepper the story with earth facts, zany jokes, and wacky side characters (and make sure to check out Eric's ecology riddles at the back!). This cheerful tale about the changing environment is an entertaining take on a serious subject, which will engage, inform, and inspire young readers.

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