Fall Printable Books for Kids

I love little printable books for kids. There seem to be books on just about every theme you can think of that people have made, and they allow kids to practice a little bit of vocabulary/reading, number recognition, color recognition or other skills depending on the subject.

I usually throw a book or two into my activity roundups, but there are so many cute emergent reader books for fall that I thought it was worth having a whole post just for them.

Real Life at Home has a cute printable book about the colors of fall, which kids can color as they learn about red, orange, yellow, green, blue and other colors (the printable is seven pages and can be assembled into a mini book).

Primary Games has a printable mini book that’s also about colors, but in this case all the colors are related to fall leaves. Kids can color the leaves and practice writing the color words.

Yet another colors of fall printable book is available from Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station. You can fill up your coloring area with all of these super cute books to help kids learn their colors. This one also has space for writing the color word where kids can trace the letters.

You can find a couple of different fall-themed mini books at 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1. These books can be printed in color or black and white so kids can just read them or color and read.

And if you’re looking for a counting printable book with a little bit of a Halloween twist, check out this one from Crystal and Comp. It includes numbers from one to 10 and allows kids to see the digits, count and color the items on the page, and trace the number word as they go. Plus it’s really cute.

My brother went through a phase where he was obsessed with maps. He loved to look at maps and he would draw maps of places real and imagined. He even drew maps that followed our route when we’d go to visit our grandparents in another state!

I assume there are still kids who go through map phases, and kids with an interest in history and how things got to be the way they are. Both kinds of kids will enjoy the book Borders: Understanding the Lines that Unite and Separate Us by Karim Ressouni-Demigneux, with illustrations by Karine Maincent.

The book describes how the original borders were natural, such as oceans, rivers, mountains and deserts, and while some of those borders are still in use today, many borders are human made, decided by treaties or carved out by colonizers. It covers the history of people congregating in one place and how city-states evolved into empires, how maps are drawn and how human conflicts can reshape borders.

There are stories about walls that reinforce borders, how borders work in the air and at sea, how people cross borders with passports or as refugees and how climate change is altering the borders of some countries.

You’ll also learn some fun border facts like the fact that if you stand in the middle of the bridge over the Zambezi River you can be in four countries at once because that’s where the borders of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe meet. Or how there is only one border crossing between India and Pakistan that’s closed each night in an elaborate ceremony.

The book talks about time zones, border towns and places where countries and parts of countries are inside other countries and places where borders are less important such as the European Union.

While there are serious subjects in the book, it’s still a fun read that’s sure to interest those kids around ages 8-12 who like travel, maps and weird but true facts.

About the book: 72 pages, hardcover, published 2026 by Blue Dot Kids Press. Suggested retail price $21.95.

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