21 Best Geography Books for Kids

This fantastic book is aimed at kids between 7 and above.

I wish I had found this book sooner, but my son luckily received this for his 12th birthday and we both LOVE it.

If you buy any book from this list, let it be this one.

This isn't really a fiction book, but I have included it here so you see it first! Honestly it is excellent.

Travel to 100 of the worlds most obscurrest places while you learn!

This is a classic book that everyone should read in their lifetime.

The perfect age to read this book would be in middle school.

This is a fun picture book from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Can you discover what animal pooped in the park?

This fun picture book is aimed at children aged 5-9.

Join two traveling sisters as they travel the world and learn new cultures. In this book, the girls are exploring Paris, and learn to speak a little French along the way. Join them as they visit the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, ride the metro and enjoy all things Parisian!

They also travel to Rome, London and other places in other books in the series.

If you are studying geograhy with your kids or they are learning about it in school, I highly recommend you get this geography of the world book.

Learn all about the world, the people, places, trends, and developments in this atlas. This is a fantastic geography resource for elementary aged students.

From the amazing creators of Horrible Histories and Horrible Science there is now Horrible Geography.

• Bloomin' Rainforests
• Cracking Coasts
• Desperate Deserts
• Earth-Shattering Earthquakes
• Freaky Peaks
• Monster Lakes
• Odious Oceans
• Raging Rivers
• Stormy Weather
• Violent Volcanoes

*Please note the description on Amazon states 12 books, but this is incorrect there are only 10 books included which I have listed above.

This book is excellent and a real eye opener even for us adults. For example:

There are 6,000 languages spoken throughout the world, but more than half of the people in the world speak these 8 languages:

• Chinese 19%
• English 13%
• Hindi 8%
• Spanish 7%
• Arabic 6%
• Bengali 4%
• Russian 4%
• Portugese 3%

Therefore the remianing 36% of people speak one of 5,992 other languages!

If you are studying the UK you are going to love this book. As we are from England I have fact checked it, but it is a great book for elementary aged children.

This is a Lonely Planet book for kids, traveling around 200 countries.

The kids are going to love this book, in fact you will learn a lot too.

Great for curious students the book dives head first into some really fun questions. For example, where are the best dive spots located!

This is a fantastic children's atlas with over 50 maps full of beautiful illustrations that the kids will love.

This will be such a great party trick when the kids are older!

Learn the countries capitals and flags. They will be able to surprise friends and family when they can name some of the more obscure countries!

This is a huge book with 2 large pages for each state and we refer to it all the time. It talks about famous landmarks from each state, famous people who were born in those states and much more.

How to remember the states

We love all National Geographic Books as they all have fantastic photography in, and are great to look at.

It is a more series version of the 50 States book. We love both, so you will have to choose which you prefer.

This is the American version of if the world were a village which we discussed earlier. I don't have this one yet, however, as the other book was so good I wanted to include this one too.

Learn about geological processes that have shaped our planet for thousands of years. Including the ice ages, earthquakes, global warming, and tsunamis.

There are 100s of pages filled with interesting facts, and fantastic pictures.

Let's learn about our super Earth with this very detailed and colorful encyclopedia.

It discusses extreme weather, natural disasters, and much more.

This book focuses on rock formation, rivers, and much more. It is another excellent geography book for kids that they should read.

Despite the National Geographic Bee being permanently discontued the kids are going to love this book.

The guide includes social studies, earth and space science, the environment, and culture. Of course, geography is at its core, and the guide features the latest country and geographic statistics.

This geography book is for younger children, and is excellent.

With pop ups, rotating wheels, pull tabs and more the kids will definitely see the Earth in a new way.