There exist three essential relationships in the human experience: relationship with oneself, relationship with others, and relationship with the natural world. This article focuses on one of these relationships and how children's literature may be used to support and enhance it: relationship with the natural world. The author chose this relationship because it is perhaps the most endangered one and it offers possibilities for insight into the other relationships as well. The books discussed in this article feature children of different times, cultures, and social situations finding comfort, peace, healing, wisdom, and restoration through communion with the natural world. In presenting these possibilities, such books beckon children into restoring an endangered relationship that is central to the human experience.