Growing Good Kids Book Award

Given by American Horticultural Society

103 Works 125,078 Books 3,810 Reviews 4.2
Awarded by the American Horticultural Society and the Junior Master Gardener Program for excellence in children's literature.
Categories:
All, Classics (40), No Category (63)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (4), 2021 (3), 2020 (4), 2019 (3), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (3), 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (4), 2007 (3), 2006 (5)
Announced:
July 15: 2023 Recent
WorkCategoryYear
Sun in My Tummy by Laura Alary
2023
I LOVE Strawberries by Shannon Anderson
2023
Maybe You Might by Imogen Foxell
2023
The Garden Next Door by Collin Pine
2023
Rooftop Garden by Danna Smith
2023
Saguaro's Gifts by Kurt Cyrus
2022
The Wall and the Wild by Christina Dendy
2022
Little Dandelion Seeds the World by Julia Richardson
2022
Let's Pop, Pop, Popcorn! by Cynthia Schumerth
2022
Mae the Mayfly by Denise Brennan-Nelson
2021
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies by Deborah Hopkinson
2021
One Little Lot: The 1-2-3s of an Urban Garden by Diane C. Mullen
2021
Badger's Perfect Garden by Marsha Diane Arnold
2020
Right This Very Minute: A table-to-farm book about food and farming by Lisl H Detlefsen
2020
We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines
2020
The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter by Shabazz Larkin
2020
Up in the Leaves: The True Story of the Central Park Treehouses by Shira Boss
2019
Errol's Garden (Child's Play Library) by Gillian Hibbs
2019
Seed School: Growing Up Amazing by Joan Holub
2019
Bloom: An Ode to Spring by Deborah Diesen
2018
Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything by Anita Sanchez
2018
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market by Schaub Michelle
2018
Blue Corn Soup by Caroline Stutson
2018
What Will Grow? by Jennifer Ward
2018
Good Trick Walking Stick by Sheri M. Bestor
2017
Secrets of the Vegetable Garden (Shine-A-Light) by Carron Brown
2017
Sleep Tight Farm: A Farm Prepares for Winter by Eugenie Doyle
2017
The Night Gardener by Terry Fan
2017
Because of an Acorn by Lola M. Schaefer
2017
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
2016
Zora's Zucchini by Katherine Pryor
2016
If You Love Honey by Martha Sullivan
2016
Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson
2015
The Prairie That Nature Built by Marybeth Lorbiecki
2015
What's in the Garden? by Marianne Berkes
2014
First Peas to the Table: How Thomas Jefferson Inspired a School Garden by Susan Grigsby
2013
Molly's Organic Farm by Carol L. Malnor
2013
Our School Garden! by Rick Swann
2013
Planting the Wild Garden by Kathryn O. Galbraith
2012
The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth
2012
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F. Yezerski
2012
Water, Weed, and Wait by Edith Hope Fine
2011
In the Garden with Dr. Carver by Susan Grigsby
2011
Nibbles: A Green Tale by Charlotte Middleton
2011
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
2010
Our Shadow Garden by Cherie Foster Colburn
2010
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis by Robbin Gourley
2010
The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward
2010
Big Yellow Sunflower (Fold Out and Find Out) by Frances Barry
2009
Flip, Float, Fly!: Seeds on the Move by JoAnn Early Macken
2009
The Apple-Pip Princess by Jane Ray
2009
The Old Tree by Ruth Brown
2008
If I Were A Tree by Dar Hosta
2008
The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle von Olfers
2008
The Runaway Garden: A delicious story that's good for you, too! by Jeffery L. Schatzer
2008
A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Aston
2007
Josias, Hold the Book by Jennifer Elvgren
2007
Once Around the Sun by Bobbi Katz
2007
Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America by Kathi Appelt
2006
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
2006
Earth Mother by Ellen Jackson
2006
The Tree Farmer by Chuck Leavell
2006
Our Apple Tree by Görel Kristina Näslund
2006
Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman
Classics2004
Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy
Classics2003
How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry
Classics2003
Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen
Classics2002
A Place to Grow by Stephanie Bloom
Classics2002
The Gazebo by Ethel Pochocki
Classics2002
Clara Caterpillar by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Classics2001
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden by Edith Pattou
Classics2001
The Tin Forest by Helen Ward
Classics2001
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Classics2000
Wild Child by Lynn Plourde
Classics1999
Scarlette Beane by Karen Wallace
Classics1999
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
Classics1999
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
Classics1999
The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
Classics1998
Sunflower Sal by Janet S. Anderson
Classics1997
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
Classics1997
The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Classics1997
The Leaf Men by William Joyce
Classics1996
Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
Classics1996
Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
Classics1996
Oliver's Vegetables by Vivian French
Classics1995
Inch by Inch: The Garden Song by David Mallett
Classics1995
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Classics1995
Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
Classics1994
Wanda's Roses by Pat Brisson
Classics1994
Pumpkins: A Story for a Field by Mary Lyn Ray
Classics1992
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Chief Seattle
Classics1991
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Classics1990
The Empty Pot by Demi
Classics1990
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Classics1987
Once There Was a Tree by Natalia Romanova
Classics1985
Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Björk
Classics1985
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Classics1982
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Classics1971
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Classics1964
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Classics1945
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Classics1910
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Classics1902
Lily's Garden by Deborah Kogan Ray
Classics1642
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