Become a Landscape Architect

Summer Reading List: Books Celebrating Landscape Architecture

Whether you're a parent looking for a fun book to read with your children or an educator seeking books to inspire student's curiosity about outdoor spaces and design learning, ASLA's Best PreK-12 Book list is a great place to start. ASLA invited its members to share the children's book that informed their decision to become a landscape architect. Check out their top picks:

PreK-Elementary Readers

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

 

Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie Lamba, Baldev Lamba, and Sonia Sanchez

 

Green Trees and Sam by Shannon Gapp, ASLA, Bolton & Menk

 

Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans

 

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

 

The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain

 

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas

 

Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano

 

Middle School Readers 

 

Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett