The great thing about fall children’s books is they can be used anytime over the months of fall. Fall books can be used to fill in around the holidays at home with your kiddos or at school. There are so many great choices out there for you, but I’ve found a few that I love and wanted to share, so here are my 9 best books to read during the fall.
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Leaves by David Ezra Stein
In this book, students explore the season of fall through the eyes of a baby bear. He worries when the leaves start falling off the trees and tries to put them back. The bear hibernates, then gets to experience everything growing anew in the spring. This book about fall for preschoolers shows them that even though fall seems sad with everything dying, spring is just around the corner with new growth. Your kiddos at home or students at school will get to experience the seasons in a new way through the bear’s eyes.
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
As a Caldecott Winner, your little ones will get to experience the amazing story as well as the award-winning illustrations with real life leaves in this fall book. The author makes the voyage of a collection of fallen leaves seem magical and exciting. The leaf man must go where the wind blows, so he does. First, he floats east with the wind by the marsh, then abruptly follows a westwardly gust over the orchards. You never know which way the leaf man will go or what he will see next in this amazing children’s book about fall.
Why Do Leaves Change Color by Betsy Maestro
This children’s book about fall is sure to please every student in your class, even the ones who don’t like to read very much. Your kids will love that they can touch and feel what they are reading while answering their favorite stand-by question, “Why?” This book explores ideas and questions your little ones have asked you a hundred times. “How do leaves feed trees?” “What kind of weather brings out the best colors?” “Why is winter a time of rest for trees?” This science-focused fall book will help your learners understand the world around them.
Apples by Gail Gibbons
In this fall book for preschool and young school-age kiddos, your learners will understand all about apples. They will learn about the different kinds of apples, how apples grow, and how apples are taken from place to place. They will get to see how seeds are brought to new places, planted, and grown. Your little ones will also learn about why apples are so special.
Apples for Everyone by Jill Esbaum
This fall book is a nonfiction book about apples. Apples are very versatile fruits and your students will learn some of their traditional uses. In the fall, teachers are often presented with apples as gifts of well-wishes from students. When it starts to get cold outside, we squeeze apples into juice for apple cider. For special events and parties, apples even get coated with candy and caramel for even more people to enjoy.
A Day At the Pumpkin Patch by Megan Faulkner & Adam Krawesky
In this children’s book about fall, and one of everyone’s favorite autumnal pastimes, we get to explore the pumpkin patch! The pumpkin patch has long been a fall tradition for children and adults to enjoy together, but this book brings the experience to life. From picking out pumpkins to hay rides, you can use this fall book to get your kiddos ready for their trip to the pumpkin patch.
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson
Pumpkins are one of the most exciting things about the fall season for the youngsters in your life. Help them learn more about this vegetable through this exciting fall book. Your students will get to explore the life cycle of a pumpkin and learn to understand that it is indeed a circle without end. Even though an individual pumpkin eventually dies and rots away, the seeds are how the next pumpkins are grown. In essence, the pumpkin circle never ends.
Seed, Sprout, Pumpkin, Pie by Jill Esbaum
Another great seasonal children’s book about fall, this book focuses on pumpkins and their uses in our lives. Pumpkin is one of everyone’s favorite fall treats. This book explores all the ways we can use pumpkins to spice up our food in the fall. From picking and carving pumpkins to making pumpkin pie and pumpkin-flavored drinks and cakes, every reader will find their mouth watering and longing for the fall treat.
I Like Pumpkins by Jerry Smath
This fall book may be set around Halloween, but it is full of pumpkins. Pumpkins can be carved or drawn on, but they can also be eaten. This children’s book about fall has a little girl telling her audience all about the wonderful things you can do with pumpkins. Yes, you can make jack-o-lanterns, masks, and roasted pumpkin seeds at Halloween, but you can also make pumpkin pie. Yum!
Fall is a great time for learning about the changing seasons as the plant life around us goes dormant in preparation for the long winter months. Take some time to read these children’s books about fall to the learners in your life so they can better understand the world around them. The more we understand the world around us, the better we can help to take care of it.
Fall Activities for Your Classroom
If your students can’t get enough of Fall children’s books, be sure to check out these Fall coloring pages! You’ll find all kinds of options that focus on helping your students learn! There are color-by-numbers, color-by-letters, and even color-by-sight words! These coloring pages are great for keeping your students entertained while helping them learn! These packages contain 28-46 pages, depending on which one you select. But the best part of all? Your students can use what they’ve been learning from the books to help them color these pages!
Are you still looking for more ideas? Check out the FREE Reading Graphic Organizer today! This tool can help students identify the main idea, story elements, and the beginning, middle, and end of stories. It can be used with any story you want to introduce in your classroom, and best of all, it’s FREE!
