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The 2025 Book Nook
These books were displayed at the 2025 Education Tent on Winter in Illinois, Where Do they Go! in the Book Nook. This list is not complete. Other books on the market are also accurate and a good source of information. This list will give you a good starting point to find reliable and accurate information to read to youth and children. This list does not represent endorsement to any book or author by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Books listed under the various reading ages can be read either at the level above or below depending on the child.
Youngest Readers (2 to 5 years)
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
Tracks in the Snow by Wong Herbert Yee
When Winter Comes by Aimee M. Bissonette
Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft & Richard G. Van Gelder
Whose Prints? by Kari Allen
Young Readers (4 to 8 years)
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
Where Do Worms Go in Winter? By Ellen Labrecque
When Winter Comes by Aimee M. Bissonette
Snow Birds: A Picture Book by Kirsten Hall
Frozen Frogs and Sleeping Squirrels: Animals in Winter by Joanne Mattern
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
First Questions and Answers: Where Do Animals Go in Winter by Katie Danes
Plants in Winter by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Hibernation (Scholoastic Reader, Leve 2) by Tori Kosara
Birds in Winter by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft & Richard G. Van Gelder
Frozen Wild: How Animals Survive in the Coldest Places on Earth by Jim Arnosky
Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart
Winter Survival: Animal Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation by L,R, Hanson
Animals in Fall Preparing for Winter by Martha E. H. Rustad
Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story by Sean Taylor and Alex Morss
Winter Tree Finder by May Theolgaard Watts and Tom Watts
Animal Hibernation by Jeanie Mebane
Hungry Coyote by Cheryl Blackford
Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys by Mike Unwin
Whose Prints? by Kari Allen
Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers; How Animals Adapt in Winter by Jessica Kulekjian
Middle Readers (9 to12 years)
Frozen Frogs and Sleeping Squirrels: Animals in Winter by Joanne Mattern
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
First Questions and Answers: Where Do Animals Go in Winter by Katie Danes
Animals in Winter: Exploring Animal Life in Winter by Nimesha Udani
Frozen Wild: How Animals Survive in the Coldest Places on Earth by Jim Arnosky
Winter Survival: Animal Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation by L,R, Hanson
What do You do in the Winter: Learning About Animals by Lou Adsmond
Winter Tree Finder by May Theolgaard Watts and Tom Watts
Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys by Mike Unwin
Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers; How Animals Adapt in Winter by Jessica Kulekjian
Older Readers (11 to15 years)
Animals in Winter: Exploring Animal Life in Winter by Nimesha Udani