Weather is a natural science topic for young children. After all, they experience it every day! Read these weather books for preschoolers to talk about different kinds of weather and to introduce vocabulary and concepts to your preschoolers. Check online used booksellers or your local library to expand your reading without a lot of cost.
Weather Books for Preschoolers
These books are perfect for a weather theme in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. They will also make great additions to your science center, a weather station dramatic play area, or your class library.
Gusts and Gales: A Book About Wind by Josepha Sherman
Find out about the different types of winds, including global winds, trade winds, local winds, and breezes. Learn about severe wind weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. Your kids will love learning about the different types of weather created by wind.
Lightning by Erin Edison
Watch it light up the sky. Hear its booms. It’s important to have non-fiction books about any topic you discuss in your classroom to complement your fiction books.
Rain by Erin Edison
Jump in a puddle. Carry an umbrella. It’s time to learn about rain.
Learn About the Weather
Books are one of the best ways to introduce vocabulary and build background knowledge for preschoolers. Choose books that use words that describe different kinds of weather. The context of the pictures and surrounding words help kids understand new words, even without formal definitions.
Rain by Robert Kalan
Blue sky. Yellow sun. White clouds. Then, suddenly, gray clouds. Gray sky. RAIN.
Snow by Erin Edison
Catch a snowflake on your tongue. Toss a snowball.
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Vivid full-color illustrations capture a young boy’s delight in the first snowfall of the year.
The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind!
Wind by Erin Edison
Fly a kite. Watch leaves swirl. It’s time to learn about wind.
Clouds by Erin Edison
Discover what clouds are, how they move, and what they do.
Sunlight by Erin Edison
Sunlight comes from the sun. Sunlight causes temperature to change and helps form clouds. Explore more about sunlight in this book with simple photographs and text.
Best Weather Books For Preschool Kids
As you read books about weather with preschoolers, invite them to talk about their own experiences. Encourage conversation about times they have seen shapes in clouds or jumped in puddles or chased shadows. Connect the children’s lives to the text in books.
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Little Cloud floats through the sky. He changes into different shapes before rejoining the other clouds to make a rainstorm.
Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
A little girl plays like a windy day.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw
Sometimes it looked like spilt milk. Sometimes it looked like a pig or a sheep or an ice cream cone. But it wasn’t any of those things.
Worm Weather by Jean Taft
Two children experience a rainy day (which the worms enjoy, too).
Today is a Sunny Day by Martha E. H. Rustad
It’s a sunny day! What do we do?
Today is a Windy Day by Martha E. H. Rustad
Explore a windy day and what to do in it.
Engaging Preschool Books About Weather
Compare books about the same topic. Find words or pictures that are the same in books about wind or rain. Making connections between books builds broader knowledge for preschoolers.
The Rain Came Down by David Shannon
The rain begins to fall. The chickens squawk and the cat yowls. That’s just the beginning. And still the rain came down. Will things ever settle back down?
A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
A boy wants to catch a rainbow for his very own.
Rain by Manya Stojic
The land is hot and dry. But the animals know the rain it coming – they can smell it, see it, hear it, feel it and taste it.
Splish! Splash!: A Book About Rain by Josepha Sherman
Learn more about rain and the water cycle.
All About Weather by Huda Harajli
What is weather? This book explores what weather is and the different kinds of weather we experience.
Explore My World: Clouds by Marfe Ferguson Delano
Why are clouds in the sky? What kinds of clouds are there? What do they look like? This book explores these questions and more. Plus great photos!
Sunlight by Erin Edison
Learn more about sunlight. Includes a glossary to help explain more weather words related to sunlight.
Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle
With fun rhymes and warm illustrations, this book tells what happens when a thunderstorm brings a group of people together to become new friends.
Explore My World: Weather by Lisa Gerry
From snowflakes to raindrops to puddles, from sunny days to cloudy days to blustery days, young readers will be amazed by the wondrous and ever-changing world of weather.
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