This is a gorgeous introduction to gardening for toddlers. It’s a spiral-bound board book with really sturdy and wipe-clean pages. It’s full of beautiful illustrations, hints and tips as well as simple ideas to get you started gardening with your toddler. Activities include sprouting beans, making a magic mini garden, mud kitchen, composting and pressing flowers.

There’s also useful illustrated lists on how to stay sake, gear to get you started and natural gardening as well as which plants are good to get you started.

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This is another guide to gardening for kids which is aimed at slightly older children than Sunflower shoots and muddy boots. It’s perfect for preschool and primary school children with help from grown-ups.

It’s a guide to gardening through the seasons. Starting with spring and sow vegetable and flower seeds, right through to winter where you will learn how to protect plants from frost.

It covers a wide range of plants that it guides you through growing as well as teaching kids about wildlife, water conservation and much more. There are also activities included like how to make a watering can from a milk bottle and how to carve a pumpkin.

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This is a gorgeous book for preschoolers and toddlers. It's a sturdy board book filled with information about growing plants from seeds. It's information aimed at young children. It's not filled with as many detailed activities as some of the other books mentioned here but it's a fantastic first gardening book for introducing it to young children with lots of information, illustrations and a few simple activity suggestions.

This book contains over 60 recipes and gardening activities that are perfect for families. This book is filled with eye-catching photos and really clear instructions. You'll soon be planting herbs in hessian bags, making butterfly banquets and making a mint and raspberry lemonade.

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This book contains more than 30 rewarding activities. There are indoor and outdoor activities for children 7 years and up. You can learn how to grow an avocado tree, forage for edible flowers and even make wildflower seed papers. There is a big emphasis on not needing any fancy equipment so you'll be able to start growing.

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This is a great practical guide to getting started gardening with kids. It has entries for how to grow loads of different fruit and vegetables as well as loads of projects for introducing wildlife into your garden and also recycling in the garden.

It's a gorgeous and colourful book filled with photos that really inspire you with confidence for getting kids in the garden.

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This is another great book for linking gardening and cooking for children and families. It's full of colourful photos and loads of recipes to try with kids. As well as a simple introduction to gardening with kids. It covers enough to get children interested in gardening without boring them with the details. Hopefully, by getting kids involved in growing and cooking the vegetables, they will try a bigger range.

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This is a beautiful book that is perfect for nature-loving kids. The illustrations are truly beautiful and simple in some ways but also quite detailed. The story is a simple one about a little girl who lives in a magic garden and the changes that happen in her garden through the day and night and across the seasons. Children will enjoy the story without realising that they are learning lots about nature. 

At the end of the book, there are a few pages of more factual content. These short questions and answers are great for helping curious kids learn about different things like why and how do spiders spin and weave? and how do snakes eat meals that are bigger than they are? I love how this book inspires kids to slow down and notice what is going on around them.

This is a gorgeous board book full of flaps and cut out bits that my girls love. The illustrations are colourful and rich in detail. It’s packed full of information about our gardens, including the insects and wildlife that we share them with, the vegetable patch and the compost heap. 

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The illustrations are colourful and engaging for children. It’s perfect for toddlers as there isn’t too much text on each page so it helps to keep their attention. It’s a lovely book about a little girl who wants to grow flowers. The story starts with buying the seeds, caring for them and finishes with Lul and her friends playing in her beautiful flower garden. Another great book for inspiring and teaching young children about gardening.

This is a truly beautiful book that we have completely fallen in love with. The illustrations are as adorable as the story.

Ruby lives in a caravan with her grandmother who has taught her to treat everyone and everything with respect. In the story, we learn about all the things they love including their garden as well as keeping hens, drinking tea and napping in the garden.

Kate uses words and beautiful illustrations to teach children about enjoying the simple things in life. This book is part of a series of books about Ruby and I can’t wait to read the others. This book is perfect for children 3+.

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This is one of my favourite children's books about spring. It's a sweet story about two girls and their dad who go out to start gardening in spring. They learn about the wildlife and plants in their garden waking up for spring. The illustrations are gorgeous too.

There is a section at the back that is more fact-based so children can learn more about spring including how it affects plants and animals.

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