Books About Germs and Washing Hands for Preschool

Here are some books about germs and washing hands for preschool. Reading these books to pre-k children will help encourage safe health and hygiene.

Books About Germs and Washing Hands for Preschool

Whether it’s back to school time or cold/flu/covid season, these books will teach preschoolers how to stay healthy. If you have children asking why they get sick, you need the best preschool books to provide them with knowledge about harmful germs and how viruses work.

Many books on this list help children learn the importance of hand washing as well as the proper way to wash hands.

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Books About Germs and Washing Hands for Preschool

These books will help teach pre-k children about germs, good hygiene, and how to wash their hands.

Wash Your Hands, Mr Panda

by Steve Anthony

Wash Your Hands!: Keeping Clean in a Messy World

by Noreen R. Hussain

Sick Simon

by Dan Krall

Pig in Jeans Fights Germs

by Brenda Li

Germs Are Not for Sharing

by Elizabeth Verdick

Germs, YUK!

by Sky Davis

Benjamin Monkey Wash Your Hands

by Spencer Noodle

Cutie Sue Fights the Germs

by Kate Melton

A Germ’s Journey

by Thomas Rooke M.D.

Germs Make Me Sick!

by Melvin Berger

Do Not Lick This Book

by Idan Ben-Barak

Pete the Kitty: Wash Your Hands

by James Dean

Curious George Discovers Germs

by H. A. Rey

Germs vs. Soap: A Silly Hygiene Book about Washing Hands!

by Didi Dragon

Noses Are Not for Picking

by Elizabeth Verdick

Scrubba Dub, Carlos

by Stuart J. Murphy

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