The Best Biology Books for Kids

One illustrated reference maps cells, genetics, plants, animals, ecology, and the systems of the human body.

Match remarkable noses, ears, tails, eyes, feet, and mouths to the animals that put them to work.

A talkative skin cell explains membranes, organelles, division, and how trillions of tiny units make one living body.

Follow the Galápagos Islands from volcanic birth to the arrival, adaptation, and evolution of their extraordinary life.

A is for anatomy, B is for bacteria, and the alphabet keeps going all the way to zoology.

One twisting strand of DNA connects the growth of microbes, mushrooms, plants, animals, and people.

A tradesman builds better lenses than the experts and finds an entire living world inside one drop of water.

A museum in book form arranges more than 160 plants from the first mosses through palms, orchids, and carnivores.

A skeleton hosts a graphic-novel variety show in which every body system takes its turn onstage.

Each cutout page turns one thing into the next — egg to chicken, seed to flower — until the last turn circles back.

Enter a paper museum of molds, yeasts, lichens, mushrooms, spores, and the vast networks working underfoot.

Use raisins, leaves, earthworms, yeast, and other ordinary materials for 101 experiments about living things.