Earth Day 2024 will take place on 22 April. To support any activity you may want to run, we have collated a booklist with a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction books with strong themes of nature and conservation.
We would love to hear what books you’d recommend on social media using #booklist and tagging @readingagency. You can see our past booklists here.
Books
Younger children
- Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies (author), Emily Sutton (illustrator)
- Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees by Nina Chakrabarti
- My Heart Was a Tree: Poems and stories to celebrate trees by Michael Morpurgo (author), Yuval Zommer (illustrator)
Older children
- Every Leaf a Hallelujah by Ben Okri,
- Finding Bear by Hannah Gold (author), Levi Pinfold (illustrator)
- Leila and the Blue Fox by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (author), Tom de Freston (illustrator)
Young people (14+) – please note these may have mature themes and you can find more specific age ratings on publisher websites
- Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
- Green Rising by Lauren James
- Lark by Anthony McGowan (author), Nick Hayes (cover design/artwork)
Adults
- Be a Birder by Hamza Yassin
- Landlines by Raynor Winn
- Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden by Marchelle Farrel
