Earth Day is a call to honor the future every being on Earth shares. People, plants, animals. Every living creature on Earth has a stake in its future, and the following books celebrate that life.
Browsing: ages 5 & up
This Women’s History Month, discover the stories of some extraordinary women who helped change the world for the better with these picture books.
Learn about the woman who mapped Earth’s address in the universe in Galaxy Mapper: The Luminous Discoveries of Astrophysicist Hélène Courtois by Allie Summers and Sian James.
A boy discovers a secret ingredient for nurturing plants and helping ailing loved ones in Planting Hope, by Frederick Joseph and Paul Kellam.
A boy learns how much work raising a pet is in Leo’s Lobo, a picture book by Melissa Cristina Márquez and Maria Gabriela Gama.
A young boy sets out to help jog his elderly neighbor’s disappearing memory in Searching for Mr. Johnson’s Song, by Ariel Vanece and Jade Orlando.
Learn the story of the disappearance of the Aral Sea and the loss of livelihood and biodiversity in The Vanishing Sea, by Dinara Mirtalipova.
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. These Christmas Books were released in 2025.
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your home library. The following picture books were published in 2025.
The most decorated gymnast of all time, joins the ranks of the Ordinary People Change the World picture book biography series in I Am Simone Biles, by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.