Fostering Environmental Awareness in Early Childhood
Explore hundreds of printable PDF books that teach kids about animals, plants, and the planet. Help your children understand nature so they learn to love it!
Nature Story Books (Mammals) (Total: 14 Books)
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The Remarkable Babirusa: The Secret Wild Pig of Sulawesi
Step into the lush tropical rainforests of Indonesia with The Remarkable Babirusa: The Secret Wild Pig of Sulawesi, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the wonderful world of babirusas. Children will love discovering how these unique wild pigs have astonishing, upward-curving tusks that grow right through their snouts toward their foreheads, how they love to wallow in cool mud, and why they need our help to protect their island home! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature and wildlife science, The Remarkable Babirusa offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Fascinating Tarsiers
Step into the emerald-green jungle canopies of Sulawesi, Indonesia with The Fascinating Tarsiers, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the wonderful world of tarsiers. Children will love discovering how these tiny primates—small enough to fit in the palm of a hand!—have giant owl-like eyes that cannot move, super-long legs for leaping like tiny frogs, and the amazing ability to rotate their heads a full 180 degrees to spot bugs in the dark. Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature and wildlife science, The Fascinating Tarsiers offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Amazing Anteaters
Step into the lush tropical jungles and savannas of Central and South America with The Amazing Anteaters, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the wonderful world of anteaters. Children will love discovering how these unique mammals have an incredibly long snout, no teeth at all, massive front claws for opening hard termite mounds, and a super-sticky tongue that can flick out thousands of times a day to catch delicious ants! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature and wildlife science, The Amazing Anteaters offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Fierce Tasmanian Devils
Journey to the wild forests of Australia with The Fierce Tasmanian Devils, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the fascinating world of Tasmanian devils. Children will love discovering how these amazing marsupials act as nature's ultimate cleanup crew, crunch through bones with incredibly powerful jaws, rest inside cozy hollow logs during the day, and let out funny growls and screeches in the night! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature, The Fierce Tasmanian Devils offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal science discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Gentle Capybaras
Journey to the warm wetlands of South America with The Gentle Capybaras, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the wonderful world of capybaras—the largest rodents on Earth! Children will love discovering how these amazing mammals swim gracefully with webbed feet, wallow in muddy riverbanks, graze on fresh river grass, and share a legendary friendliness that makes other animals love to sit right on top of them! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature, The Gentle Capybaras offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal science discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Prickly Porcupines
Step into the wild woodlands with The Prickly Porcupines, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the unique world of porcupines. Children will love discovering how these amazing rodents wear coats of thousands of sharp, defensive quills, climb skillfully high up into tree branches, munch on tasty woody bark, and raise sweet baby "hoglets" in cozy forest dens! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature, The Prickly Porcupines offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal science discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Bold Bison
Journey across the open grasslands with The Bold Bison, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the wonderful world of bison. Children will love discovering how these magnificent mammals use thick shaggy coats to survive snowy winters, roll around in fun dust baths to protect their skin, push away snow with woolly heads to find grass, and travel together in friendly herds! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature, The Bold Bison offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal science discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.
The Masked Bandits of the Woods
Step into the leafy forest with The Masked Bandits of the Woods, an engaging non-fiction storybook created specifically for Level 1 readers and kindergarteners. Featuring simple, easy-to-read text and captivating wildlife facts, this book introduces young readers to the clever world of raccoons. Children will love discovering how these forest mammals use their sensitive, hand-like paws to touch everything, why they wear iconic black bandit masks across their eyes, how they wash their food in streams, and how sweet baby kits grow in cozy tree hollow dens! Designed to build early reading confidence, enrich vocabulary, and inspire a love for nature, The Masked Bandits of the Woods offers the perfect mix of early literacy and animal science discovery for storytime, beginner reading practice, or classroom libraries.