The Best Animal Migration Books for Kids

Twenty animals cross oceans, continents, ice, and desert on journeys built for survival.

Scientists and volunteers spend decades solving the mystery of where North America’s monarchs go.

A young goose watches every neighbor prepare for winter and wonders what her own wings are for.

Purple finches, indigo buntings, and other traveling birds make a first lesson in color.

A ruby-throated hummingbird flies south through storms, predators, and a long stretch of open water.

More than thirty species show why animals move and how they cross land, water, and sky.

A young whale follows his father’s song through dark water on their long ocean journey.

Satellite collars help scientists discover where thousands of Namibia’s zebras disappear each year.

Birds cross thousands of miles without road signs, maps, or anyone flying ahead to point.

A young Arctic tern sets out on a pole-to-pole flight in pursuit of an endless summer.

One peregrine falcon flies from Alaska to Argentina, hunting and resting along an 8,000-mile route.

A real osprey’s tracking data becomes the story of her first flight from Massachusetts to Brazil.

Monarchs complete a 3,000-mile round trip that no single butterfly lives long enough to finish.

A carefree bird, a worried squirrel, and a hungry cat turn a trip south into a comic chase.

A girl follows monarchs across a sun-scorched future, mapping the insects that make survival possible.