Children’s Books Set in Colorado

Are you looking for a wonderful list of children’s books set in Colorado? Here are some of our favorites! Each of these children’s books is either set in Colorado or features a person who has close ties to the state of Colorado. Home of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado’s natural beauty is almost unsurpassed in terms of its clean air, rugged mountain scenery, and natural rock formations. If you’d like more information on each book, read more by clicking on the affiliate links listed below.

Kit Carson, an American frontiersman, joins a wagon train heading west along the Santa Fe Trail. 

A freed slave heads west to Colorado to start a new life and try to find her daughter sold away...

Elk Sister is a Ute Indian living in the Rocky Mountains with her tribe in 1860. 

A young native boy is sent to live on an isolated Colorado farm and embarks on a journey to open...

When a cougar attacks a hiker in Mesa Verde National Park, the Landon family must solve the mystery. 

A young boy visits his grandfather in Colorado and helps a crippled donkey who has a similar disability to his...

Based on the true story of an 8-year-old girl and her attempt to climb Longs Peak, the tallest mountain in...

A British teenager leaves England to mine for gold in Colorado in the early 1860s. 

Young Katerina and her family dream of owning their own farm in America, but will their dream come true? 

Young Ralph and his family of eight move west from New Hampshire to Colorado in the early 1900s. This is...

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Several of these books are also featured in Read Through the USA lesson plans, so be sure to check them out if you’re studying more general U.S. geography.