We love reading in my house and one of my favorite ways to spark interest in reading whenever we are in a reading rut is to read books that will spark your little ones back into reading. There are a few book authors that have created a series of children’s books that share fun landmarks and facts about all of the 50 states. I don’t mean in one book, but rather a book for each state. So I’ve made a list of books that mention Georgia in them since that is where we are. Most of the books listed below are also available for other states as well. Our favorites are the holiday-themed ones. We have the Littlest Bunny in Georgia and Santa is Coming to Georgia! Check out the books in your state!
The Littlest Bunny in Georgia: An Easter Adventure
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It’s Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he’s actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!
Available in other states as well.
P is for Peach: A Georgia Alphabet
– As you travel through the Okefenokee Swamp, keep an eye out for Tiger Swallowtails and Brown Thrashers, and be sure to pick some Yellow Confederate Daisies before taking a nap under a Live Oak Tree. This is the Georgia that becomes a wondrous reality within the beautiful rhyming verses of Carol Crane and the colorful images of Mark Braught. At the same time the rhymes entertain and inform younger readers, Crane’s in-depth expository text will appeal to older ones, creating a two-tiered teaching tool for educators in the Peach State and across the country.
Good Night Georgia (Good Night Our World)
– Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions, and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.
Available in other states as well.
Good Night Atlanta (Good Night Our World) –
Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions — such as the Rocky Mountains in Denver, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Lake Ontario in Toronto, and volcanoes in Hawaii. Rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.
Available in other cities as well.
Santa Is Coming to Georgia –
It’s Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa’s packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over:
•Fox Theater, Atlanta
•Hay House, Macon
•Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta
•Pebble Hill Plantation, Thomasville
•Forsyth Fountain, Savannah
•World ofCoca-Colaa, Atlanta
•Ezekiel Harris House, Augusta
•Stone Mountain
•MLK Birthplace
•City Hall, Athens
•The Varsity
•KFC Chicken Sign, Marietta
“Ho, ho ho!” laughs Santa. “Merry Christmas, Georgia!”
Available in other states as well.
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Georgia (The Twelve Days of Christmas in America) –
Merry Christmas from the Peach State! Jacob’s there visiting his cousin Ava, and together they’ll have a Southern-style holiday hiking the Appalachian Trail, wandering through the Gold Museum, and touring the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.
A Halloween Scare in Georgia –
It’s Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army of monsters, on broomsticks, buses, and bikes, all clamoring in the darkness. What is it they want? Are they coming for you?
This humorous, creative story is the perfect Halloween adventure for children and parents to share.
Available in other states as well.
Our Georgia School: A Wildlife Habitat
Kids only need to step outside to see wildlife and to appreciate the children’s book Our Georgia School: A Wildlife Habitat. Ella, Zack, and their classmates are very happy when Ms. Applebee decides to hold the science class about wildlife habitats outside on the school playground. Much to the surprise and delight of the kids, animals begin to make appearances. By the end of the lesson, the students learn that their Georgia school is a wildlife habitat!
And the Tide Comes In…: Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh (Long Term Ecological Research)
This book is a narrative told from the point of view of a young girl who is showing her visiting cousin a Georgia coastal salt marsh. The children visit the marsh every day for four days, slowly building their knowledge of the ecosystem. As they make their way through the tall marsh grass, the two children slip and slide on marsh mud, discover clusters of ribbed mussels at the base of the grass, and watch as fiddler crabs skitter from burrow to burrow around the edge of a creek. Representative of intertidal marshes throughout the world, the Georgia coastal salt marsh described in this book is typically shared by both land and marine mammals, presenting a unique ecosystem at the water’s edge.
A Kid’s Guide to Atlanta
A Kid’s Guide to Atlanta is your own personal tour guide when you and your family venture out to explore all this great city has to offer! It’s jam packed with colorful pictures and fun facts about Atlanta’s history, landmarks, neighborhoods, and more! All the interesting stuff that makes Atlanta such an amazing place to discover is waiting inside, along with a way-cool map and stickers that will help you along your journey.
Georgia’s Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas
Fun and learning come together in Georgia’s Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets the sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary on coastal wildlife from fifty-foot-long northern right whales to single-cell plankton, from shy coyotes to overbearingly sociable sand gnats. Readers will learn about the lifespan of the gopher tortoise, the acting talents of the hognose snake, the health benefits of eating pawpaws, the importance of tidal fluctuations, and much more. Written for the general reader, yet solidly researched, Georgia’s Amazing Coast will spark our sense of wonder and inspire us to learn even more about our natural heritage and what all of us can do to preserve it.
Little Georgia (Little State)
Iconic Georgia topics and state symbols are presented in a rhyming riddle format with illustrated clues and answers. Peach, brown thrasher, and Cherokee Rose are included in this board book.
A Kid’s Guide to Atlanta
A Kid’s Guide to Atlanta is your own personal tour guide when you and your family venture out to explore all this great city has to offer! It’s jam packed with colorful pictures and fun facts about Atlanta’s history, landmarks, neighborhoods, and more! All the interesting stuff that makes Atlanta such an amazing place to discover is waiting inside, along with a way-cool map and stickers that will help you along your journey.
123 Atlanta (Cool Counting Books)
Brightly colored pictures of things and landmarks one might see in Atlanta, Ga.
What awesome books about Georgia! I will have to check these out!