Autumn is here! Before you know it, it will be time for another harvest season. Now is the perfect time to incorporate harvest books for kids season into your fall activities.
Whether you’re planning a harvest unit study or want to teach your kids about the excitement of a fall harvest, these 20 best harvest books for kids are perfect.

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As a homeschooling and homesteading family, our days include many hands-on activities. We grow vegetables with our kids and raise chickens too. We spend time together outdoors, but we also all love to read.
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So when fall arrives, we often curl up with our favorite harvest books for children.
Some of these books will teach your kids about everything from the harvest moon to picking fall produce in your backyard garden.
These fun read-aloud stories are a great way to bring these concepts to life through fun and visual stories your kids will love. Enjoy!
20 Best Harvest Books for Kids
Welcome to our post about the best picture books to read to children ages three and up about harvest time!
We have collected a list of over 20 great books that will help get your child excited for the upcoming harvest season. Whether they are interested in learning about the farm animals involved in the harvest or simply want to hear a story about the autumn season, we have got you covered.

We Gather Together: Celebrating the Harvest Season
This book is about the fall equinox and harvest time. The fall harvest season is a time to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of long nights. It's also an opportunity for farmers, fishermen - anyone who lives off agriculture or hunting-to start collecting their crops in preparation for winter!

Fall Harvests: Bringing in Food (Cloverleaf Books ™ ― Fall's Here!)
The season of fall is a perfect time to enjoy some delicious food. In the Cloverleaf Books™ collection, find books about all things pumpkin-spice latte and candy corn. These nonfiction picturebooks have friendly text that kids love reading with colorful illustrations, so they learn more than just facts.

It's Harvest Time!: A Book with Foldout Pages
This follow-up title to How Does a Seed Grow? You will watch in awe as the seeds grow and change before your eyes! Follow these fun clues, with each foldout flap representing an important step.

The Berenstain Bears' Harvest Festival (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights: A Faith Story)
All of my kids have loved the Berenstain Bears' books. In this one, the people of Bear Country are excited for the Harvest Festival, which will be a great time with family and friends. They're looking forward to all that autumn has in store!

Harvest Mouse (Small Furry Animals)
Whether they are small and furry or scaly, all of the animals featured in this series make for great reading! This book follows a mouse's life during harvest season.

Curious George Apple Harvest
George is helping the Renkinses harvest their apples when he accidentally sets off a giant cider press! As usual, George’s curiosity gets the best of him and before long, his hands are covered in juice....

Apples, Apples Everywhere!: Learning About Apple Harvests (Autumn)
This fall, head out to the orchard and learn all about apples! How do we pick them without getting our hands dirty (or snacking on some pesky worms? To what types are best suited for snacking-and which ones will give you an autumn stomach ache...

By the Light of the Harvest Moon
The harvest moon shines down as leaf people emerge to celebrate the autumnal equinox. The wind picks up, sending leaves dancing until they settle in a pumpkin patch....

Tractor Mac Harvest Time
When the nights start to get cooler, and it's time for harvest, there is no better place than our farm! Tractor Mac loves this exciting season of change. But he can't wait until next year because this year, he's been stuck working with Farmer Bill in picking apples from his orchard while small Fred is having fun in the pumpkin patch across town...

Harvest Time (Celebrate Fall)
The harvest has come, and it's time to celebrate! This book will tell you all about the joys of fall. Early readers can find easy-to-read text with beautiful photos and bright colors that will surely get your little ones excited for this harvest season.

Possum's Harvest Moon
When Possum sees the full harvest moon that evening, he realizes it's time for him and his friends to say goodbye. So they decide on one last party before winter takes over everything - but nobody seems to be interested in his party!

Hello, Harvest Moon
The harvest moon is climbing into the sky, and it's time for some people to wake up. For others who need their sleep more than anything else in this world or even just one day at a time because they're farmers!

Strega Nona's Harvest
The beloved Strega Nona is back in this fall-themed picture book. The imagery and illustrations are perfect for reflecting on the harvest season, with a bonus chapter celebrating gardens that will make any fan of the original collectible happy. Another of our long-time family favorite picture books!

Barefoot Books Grandpa's Garden
This charming story of a boy and his grandpa working together on the vegetable patch is one we have read many times. It's an unforgettable summer adventure as they dig the hard ground, sow seeds in rows for later harvests-and keep those slugs at bay.

Autumn Harvest
This delightful book tells the story of a family who lives on a farm during harvest time. The first frost brings cold and change, but also geese that come to visit from faraway lands in search of food sources like seeds or berries, which can be found in their home's fields after they've been harvested!

Bitsy's Harvest Party (Carlson, Melody)
Bitsy wants to have a harvest party, but thinks twice about it because of her lack of party skills! I like this book because it is a gentle reminder about gratitude and thankfulness and what is actually important in life.

Too Many Pumpkins
When Rebecca Estelle was a girl pumpkins were often the only food her family had, and she's sick of them. When she tries to cover an enormous pumpkin that smashed in her yard, it grows up the following year!
This is a classic harvest time story and one of my all time favorites.

Apples and Pumpkins
This delightful board book explores the simple pleasures of picking apples and pumpkins on a beautiful autumn day. A favorite with preschoolers.

Apple Farmer Annie
Join Annie, a busy apple farmer who sells her tasty treats at the market. Pick apples all day long, and then make some of these delicious recipes!

Pumpkin Pumpkin
After planting pumpkin seeds in the spring, Jamie watches them grow through the summer. In the autumn, he carves them for Halloween and during harvest saves one last plant of each type to put away for next year. A good introduction to planting seasons and seed saving.
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