God’s marvelous gift of pollinators

My Pollinator Garden: How I Plant for Bees, Butterflies, Beetles, and More

Jordan Zwetchkenbaum
Illustrated by Kate Cosgrave
Holiday House, 2025.

Looking for a new nature-themed book to share with the kids in your life this summer? In this lovely children’s book, author Jordan Zwetchkenbaum shares her passion for planting and nurturing her garden for the pollinators that inhabit it and for the betterment of the earth. With a vivacious child as their guide, kids will learn about many different kinds of bees and the specific kinds of flowers they visit: violet miner bees and common blue violet, pure green sweat bees and blue vervain, orange-tipped wood-diggers bees and white beardtongue, unequal cellophane bees and pussy willows, common eastern bumblebees and great blue lobelia, southeastern blueberry bees and highbush blueberry and more. Readers will also learn about other pollinators such as great black digger wasps, fungus gnats, slender flower longhorn beetles, spicebush swallowtail butterflies, white-lined sphinx moths, Mexican long-tongued bats and ruby-throated hummingbirds.

Illustrator Kate Cosgrave’s stunningly vivid artwork and author Jordan Zwetchkenbaum’s informative, inspiring narrative are sure to capture the attention and curiosity of young children and possibly even pique their interest in starting a pollinator garden with the help of an adult. When Christian parents or caregivers of young children share the reading experience, they’ll have the opportunity to talk about God’s marvelous gift of pollinators, share God’s good design for the earth and talk about his calling on our lives to care for creation.

My Pollinator Garden is part of The Books for a Better Earth™ collection, which is “designed to inspire children to become active, knowledgeable participants in caring for the planet they live on.” It includes titles such as Great Carrier Reef, the story of how an aircraft carrier was gutted and turned into the world’s largest artificial reef, and A Tree is a Community, an exploration into how trees are ecosystems that support insects, animals, and more.