The Best Children’s Books About Summer!

This gentle rhyming story and lovely illustrations show how a little girl delights in the small but special moments of summer.

Follow the story as everyone waits for the dry dusty days of summer to end with the coming of the rains. This book is full of gorgeous illustrations by Bundjalung woman Bronwyn Bancroft.

This story is about a girl and her grandfather as they explore how the plans and animals adapt to drought and summer heat. It's filled with gorgeous illustrations and lots of interesting facts.

What will this family do to beat the heat when the power goes out on a hot summer's night? This is a lovely book about a family coming together to enjoy each other's company.

Full of summer sounds, smells, tastes and feelings, this gorgeous book shares all the best traditions of a great summer.

Even a little summer rain can't dampen the vibrant colours of nature in summer! This is such a lovely book to read aloud and share with your kids.

This is a fun story about the great summer tradition of setting up a lemonade stand! Kids will love the spunky main character and all her customers!

Even adults will be enchanted by a trip to this magical beach! This lovely story is part reality and part fantasy, with beautiful illustrations that you'll spend hours look at to find all the tiny details

This book cleverly captures the essence of summer with it's beautiful words and images. It's lovely to read aloud and kids of all ages will love it.

This is a lovely story about a family who spends summer vacations at the lake doing so many fun things that the kids just beg to go back!

his fun and playful story about a girl and her Dad and who they spend the summer encourages everyone to celebrate familiar summer themes and appreciate the small things of the season.

Read about all the things this family does as they spend the summer outdoors exploring and playing together.

This book full of poems celebrates all the different ways you can spend your summer vacation!

Learn all about the midnight sun in this lovely book about when summer comes to the artic circle and sun shines day and night for weeks. Kids will be fascinated by the information shared as well as the lovely story.

How do you escape the summer heat in the city? You head for the coolest place, the library, and escape into a book. This is a lovely story and the collaged images make it extra special.

This is a great book with interesting photo collage images about a perfect hot summers day in the city.

This is a gorgeous story about a little girl who is getting ready to go to bed after a long and wonderful summers day at the beach. This is the perfect bedtime book for summer!

A boy and his grandfather head off on an adventure on the hottest day of the year! Kids will love this fun story and gorgeous illunstrations.

The family is trying to pack everything they need for a summer vacation, but what will they forget? This is a super fun story that kids will love.

The little boy in this story just can't wait for it to be summer and just keeps asking and asking so his Mama shows him all the signs of summer coming. This is a lovely story about the changing of ths seasons.

Summer vacation is over and your teacher wants to know what you did over the summer... Kids will love this hilarious story that gets more and more unbelievable as it goes on.

One hot day in the city Ali decides to draw cooling chalk images on the sidewalk that magically come to life and really cool down her friends and neighbors. This is a delightful book that will inspire a lot of calk art!

This great book is full of gorgeous photos and all kinds of fascinating facts about summer. Including information about plants, animals, people, food, traditions and everything that makes summer awesome.

The signs of summer are explained this nonfiction book with simple text and lots of photograps of all different kids enjoying the season.

This is a great summer book for emergent readers with simple repeated text, using high frequency and decodeable words, and great photos that match the text.

This non-fiction summer book is full of vibrant photos and simple text that shows kids how to recognise the changes that happen during summer. There is also a bonus link to a 3D app to match the book which is super fun.

This lovely book shares information about the history and science behind the summer solstice, with a fun focus on summer celebrations from various cultures around the world, and lovely illustrations to match.

This fun non-fiction book answers the question, 'How do you know its summer?' with simple science information about everything from weather patterns, to animal behaviors, and seasonal activities.

This is another great summer book for beginning readers with lots of information, photographs, a glossary, and bonus reading tips for teachers and parents.

Talk a trip to the beach and learn all about the beach and the animals that call it home in this fun pre-reader book that is perfect for summer.