| Title | Author | ISBN # | Level | Description |
| Green Thumbs | Hall. Kirsten | 0-439-32095-X | Primary | Easy reader; a class plants seeds in a garden |
| Growing Things | Wilkes, Angela | 0-7460-0122-3 | Elementary | Usborne how-to book with illustrations and activities |
| Jack's Garden | Cole, Henry | 0-688-15283-X | Primary | Cumulative text and illustrations; soil, weather, seeds, plants, insects, birds |
| Magic School Bus Plants Seeds | Relf, Patricia | 0-590-22296-1 | Elementary | Ms. Frizzle's class learns about how living things grow |
| Miss Rumphius | Cooney, Barbara | 0-14-050539-3 | Primary | A lady plants wildflower seeds to make the world more beautiful |
| Plant Life | Cork, Barbara | 0-86020-755-2 | Elementary+ | Usborne question and answer book with facts and illustrations |
| Plants Bite Back! | Platt, Richard | 0-7894-4754-1 | Elementary | Easy Reader Level 3; nonfiction, photographs of spiky and carnivorous plants |
| Sunflower House | Bunting, Eve | 0-590-33036-5 | Primary | Picture book; a child plants sunflower seeds |
| The Great Kapok Tree | Cherry, Lynne | 0-440-84944-6 | Primary | The interdependence of all living things in the rainforest |
| The Reason for a Flower | Heller, Ruth | 0-448-41091-5 | Elementary | Beautifully illustrated, poetic nonfiction |
| The Tiny Seed | Carle, Eric | 0-590-42566-8 | Primary | A seed travels and grows |
| What Shall I Grow? | Gibson, Ray | 0-439-08196-3 | Primary | Usborne how-to book with illustrations and activities |