Ponds & Wetlands
Create your own storytime at home or in the classroom using this thematic starter. You'll find links to selected books in our catalog on this page and a downloadable PDF that includes additional elements like songs/rhymes and suggested materials.
Explore the great outdoors or just right outside your door with these stories of ponds and wetlands and the animals that call them home.
Books for babies
- Row, row, row, your boat, Kubler - CPC
- Little White Duck, Whippo - CPC
- After it rains: a counting book, Schwartz - BOARD
- In the small, small pond, Fleming - FAVORITES
- I kissed the baby!, Murphy - BOARD
Books for toddlers
- Ah Ha! Mack - FAVORITES
- Watersong, McCanna - NATURE
- Swim, duck, swim! Lurie - NATURE
- Ribbit, Hurley - NATURE
- Pond Babies, Falwell - NATURE
Books for preschoolers
- Over & Under the Pond, Messner - NATURE
- Gator, gator, gator!, Bernstrom - STORIES
- We are water protectors, Lindstrom - NATURE
- Somos guardianes del agua, Lindstrom - WRLDLNG
- Scoot!, Falwell - NATURE
- Hop aprende a nadar, van den Berg - WRLDLNG
- Water Rolls, Water Rises / El agua reuda, el agua sube, Pat Mora - BILING
- I know the river loves me / Yo se que el rio me ama - BILING
- Silencio, Uyá - WRLDLNG
Books for school-age
- A different pond, Phi - ADVANCED
- Otters love to play, London - NATURE
- The secret pool, Ridley - 577.636 R437s
- Creekfinding, a true story, Martin - 577 M364c
- That’s Papa’s way, Banks - STORIES
Take a nature walk together! Children learn to recognize familiar colors, directions, shapes, and sounds through observation. Spend time outside together, listening and watching (and bonding!) in nature.
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