 And Still the Turtle Watched
Sheila MadGill-Callahan
Barry Moser (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0803709315
The turtle carved in rock on a bluff over a river by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years. If you live in or visit New York City, you can see the turtle at the Watson Building of the New York Botanical Garden.
 Pig's Tale
Olivia Newton-John
Sal Murdocca (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0671787780
"Protect our dear earth. Don't throw it away. You, too, could make magic from garbage someday." Ziggy, a pig, and his pop, Iggy, live in a house that is filled to the rafters with all kinds of discarded items that Iggy has collected and saved. The piglets at school tease Ziggy that he lives in a dump. But jeers quickly turn into cheers when Ziggy's pop transforms all the junk into a wondrous creation. Perfect for every young recycler.
.gif) The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore)
Stan Berenstain
Jan Berenstain (Contributor)
ISBN: 0679823514
The bears in Bear County grow concerned about how pollution and waste of natural resources are damaging the world around them, so they form The Earthsavers Club.
 Compost Critters
Bianca Lavies
ISBN: 0525447636
Describes what happens in a compost pile and how creatures, from bacteria and mites to millipedes and earthworms, aid in the process of turning compost into humus through the stunning photos from this former National Geographic photographer. This book proves that nature's wonderful diversity can also be found and encouraged in any backyard
 The Salamander Room
Anne Mazer
Steve Johnson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0394929454
Brian finds a salamander and takes him home. "Where will he sleep?" asks his mother. Her inquiries are answered with imaginative solutions that will be familiar to all those who have tried to convince a parent to let them have a pet. Brian's cozy bedroom is gradually transformed into a dark green forest that overflows the pages as the fantasy becomes more elaborate. Perfect tale of the habitat needed to sustain every living thing?
 The Water Hole
Graeme Base
ISBN: 0-8109-4568-1
As ever-growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.
 Fifty Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
Earthworks Group, John Javna
ISBN: 0836223012
Explains how specific things in a child's environment, like a light switch or a toilet, are connected to the rest of the world; how using them affects the planet; and how the individual can develop habits and projects, like energy conservation and recycling, that are environmentally sound.
 Going Green: A Kid's Handbook to Saving the Planet
John Elkington, Julia Hailes, Douglas Hill and Joel Makower
Tony Ross (Illustrator)
ASIN: 0140345973
This comprehensive guide introduces young readers to the major concepts of ecology and provides them with ways in which they can make a contribution to saving the planet. Includes explanations of ecological issues and projects, and an alphabet of thoroughly practical things - feeding the birds, closing the refrigerator door - that young people can do to help.
My First Green Book
Angela Wilkes
ISBN: 0-679-81780-8
Features environmental activities and projects in such areas as water pollution, recycling, acid rain and wildlife gardens all in an oversized-book format and with beautiful full color photos.
 Worms Eat Our Garbage: Classroom Activities for a Better Environment
Mary Appelhof, Mary Frances Fenton, Barbara Loss Harris, Daniel L. Dindal
ISBN: 0942256050
Information on composting and vermiculture.
And don't forget the classic poem "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take: The Garbage Out"
by Shel Silverstein. (Found on pp. 70-71 in Where the Sidewalk Ends
ISBN: 0060256672
 Why Should I Recycle?
Jen Green
Mark Gordone (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0764131559
What if everybody threw away old bottles and newspapers, littering the world with glass and plastic and tin cans that should be recycled and made into new products? Mr. Jones is a teacher who sets a good example for kids by separating his trash for recycling. When he takes them on a class trip to a recycling plant they learn the value of recycling.
 Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids
Gail Gibbons
ISBN: 0316309435
This lively and informative handbook explains the process of recycling from start to finish. The book focuses on the path of five different types of garbage - paper, glass, aluminum can, plastic, and polystyrene - and describes what happens to each of them when they are recycled into new products.
 Lorax
Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 0394823370
In this classic story, the Once-ler describes how his greedy actions destroyed a beautiful and thriving environment. Children will enjoy the colorful characters and rhyming verse and adults will appreciate the subtle messages about the negative effects of deforestation, habitat destruction, and air and water pollution.
 Climate and the Environment
World Almanac
ISBN: 0836850068
Describes Earth's environment and various climates, as well as the damage being done by air, water, and soil pollution to the Earth and its inhabitants.
 The Earth is My Mother
Bev Doolittle, Elisa MacLay
ISBN: 086713044X
By following clues from a dream and taking photographs of endangered wilderness areas, eleven-year-old Sarah and a Native American environmentalist try to prevent the commercial development of a southwestern canyon.
 Princess Who Danced with Cranes
Annette Lebox
Kasia Charko (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0929005872
A lushly illustrated fable about a beautiful land that is almost destroyed until a princess takes action to save her environment.
 The Red Rock: A Graphic Fable
Tomio Nitto
ISBN: 0888996691
A beaver’s home is under threat by developers who are building a luxury hotel. He and his friends gather together to try and stop the development. Meanwhile, a little girl who loves nature hears about the hotel and joins beaver and his friends in their fight. This is a persuasive tale about the importance of loving – and preserving – an increasingly threatened environment.
 Trash Trouble
Larry Dane Brimner
Christine Tripp (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0516278371
On a field trip to the Nature Center, Three J leads his second-grade classmates on a mission to pick up as much trash as possible after they find a bird caught in a discarded lunch bag.
 One Less Fish
Kim Michelle Toft, Allan Sheather
ISBN: 0881063231
Tropical fish shimmer across the pages as this cautionary tales counts down from 12 to zero warning of threats to a fragile ecosystem. One by one fish disappear – where have they gone? Will the fish come back? Set in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef this book offers straightforward suggestions for preserving underwater environments and shows how to keep this countdown from coming true.
 The Magic School Bus Hops Home
Joanna Cole, Patricia Relf
Nancy Stevenson (Illustrator)
Bruce Degan (Created by)
ISBN: 0590484133
This adventure follows Ms. Fizzel and her class and teaches children about animal habitats.
 To the Young Environmentalist: Lives Dedicated to Preserving the Natural World
Linda Leuzzi
ISBN: 0531113590
Well-known environmentalists from a variety of fields describe how they developed an interest in the environment, how they got where they are today, and things to think about when considering a career that focuses on preserving and protecting the natural world.
 Children Save the Rainforest
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Dan L. Perlman (Photographer)
ISBN: 0525651632
Explores the International Children’s Rain Forest, what it is, the plants and animals that live there, why it is important, and what can be done to preserve it.
Amazing Earth Adventures: A Kid’s Guide to Preserving the Planet
Chapman Mott, Tessa Hill
ISBN: 0590455605
A kid’s guide to preserving the Planet.
 Earth Day Every Day
Jill C. Wheeler
ISBN: 1562390317
Suggests various ways all of us can help the environment and preserve the Earth. |
It’s My Earth Too
Kathleen Krull
ISBN: 0385445563
Text and illustrations pay homage to the Earth and its resources. Includes suggestions that children can follow to help preserve the environment.
 Judy Moody Saves the World!
Megan McDonald
Peter R. Reynolds (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763620874
Judy Moody’s class is learning about the environment and she is amazed to learn about the destruction of the rain forest, the endangered species (not) in her own backyard, and her own family’s crummy recycling habit. Now she’s in a mood to whip the planet into shape. When she gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
 Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
ISBN: 0440421705
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, become involved in another boy’s attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
 Wump World
Bill Peet
ISBN: 0395311292
The Wumps lead a bucolic life on their own planet. One day they are invaded by the Pollutians, who it seems have overdeveloped and destroyed their own world. The Wumps flee in terror, as brigades of bulldozers and armies of machines are unloaded from the spaceships. Eventually, the Pollutians outgrow the Wump’s world. Amid the destruction, the Wumps begin to rebuild.
 Uno’s Garden
Graeme Base
ISBN: 0810954737
When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village grows up around his house. Then a town, then a city…and soon Uno realizes that the animals and plants have begun to disappear.
Uno’s Garden is a tale about how we all unknowingly affect the environment around us, just by being there – and how we can always learn from our mistakes and find ways of doing things better.
 Where Does the Garbage Go?
Paul Showers
Randy Chewning (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0064451143
What happens if you follow a garbage truck? It takes you to a landfill where trash is piling up…an incinerator where trash can be turned into energy…to the recycling center to see how a soda bottle can be turned into a flowerpot. This book explains how we deal with the problem of too much trash and provides ideas for ways to be part of the solution.
 Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?
Anne F. Rockwell
Paul Meisel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0060546719
What is happening to the world and why are things changing? This book helps explain why the climate is changing and what we can do to try and help.
 What Planet Are You from Clarice Bean?
Lauren Child
ISBN: 0763616966
When Clarice has to do a school project on the environment, she and her family become eco-warriors in an attempt to save a tree on their street.
 Be a Friend to Trees
Patricia Lauber
Holly Keller (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0064451208
Discussed the importance of trees as a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on them for food and shelter. Most importantly, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. We much protect trees because we can’t live without them.
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
The Earthworks Group
ISBN: 0836223012
Explains how specific things in a child’s environment are connected to the rest of the world, how using them affects the plant, and how the individual can develop habits and projects that are environmentally sound. This book is full of experiments, facts, and exciting things to do. Helps kids (and adults) learn how to keep the Earth a safe, healthy place.
 Window
Jeannie Baker
ISBN: 0688089186
Chronicles the events and changes in a young boy’s life and in his environment, from babyhood to grownup, through wordless scenes observed from the window of his room.
 Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share
Molly Bang
ISBN: 0590100564
Takes place in a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discussed the challenge of handling our world’s environment safely. A simple story about the growing needs of the townspeopleand the challenges of handling our planet’s natural resources.
 Dirt: The Scoop on Soil
Natalie M. Rosinsky
Sheree Boyd (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1404800123
Discusses the nature, uses, and importance of soil and the many forms of life that it supports. What is dirt made of? Did you know that some of Earth’s deserts used to be thick forests and green fields? Dirt keeps us alive. Children will learn the different types of dirt, the necessity of bugs and creatures in the dirt, and what to do to keep dirt healthy.
 Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Nuria Roca
Rose Maria Curton (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0764135813
The three R’s teaches us many things we can do to reduce pollution. Remembering these three R words is a good way for us to help make our planet a good place to live.
Kid’s Environment Book: What’s Awry and Why
Anne Pedersen
ISBN: 0945465742
Examines our environmental problems, humankind’s historic relationship with the Earth and its living species, how industrialization has dramatically changed our planet, and what much be done to repair the damage.
Rads, Ergs, and Cheeseburgers: The Kid’s Guide to Energy and the Environment
Bill Yanda
Michael Taylor (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0945465750
 Acting for Nature: What Young People around the World Have Done to Protect the Environment
Sneed B. Collard
Carl Dennis Buell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1890771244
This book describes the efforts of some young people to protect the environment in their communities in different countries around the world.
 Hazy Skies: Weather and the Environment
Jonathan D.W. Kahl
ISBN: 0822525305
Describes the connections between pollution and weather, global warming, efforts at pollution control, the destruction of the ozone layer, and alternative energy forms.
 Kid Heroes of the Environment
Earth Works Group, Catherine Dee, Michele Montez
ISBN: 1879682125
This book contains a collection of environmental success stories about real-life kids who are doing great things for the Earth. Each story contains a description of a kid-based project, interviews, and a listing of sources readers can contact for further information – so young readers everywhere can become “Kid Heroes.”
Our Endangered Earth: Our Fragile Environment and What We Can Do to Save It
John J. Langone
ISBN: 0316514152
Takes a look at the environmental crisis, focusing on problems like overpopulation, the pollution of water, air and land, global warming, ozone depletion, and disappearing wildlife. This book suggests way to improve our lives in the twenty-first century.
 I Can Save the Earth: A Kid’s Handbook for Keeping Earth Healthy and Green
Anita Holmes
David Neuhaus (Illustrator)
ISBN: 067174545X
Presents various ways in which everyone can help protect the environment and save the Earth. Offers suggestions for result-bringing activities that are within the reach of most children. Experiments and tests should the results of action or inaction. Offer statistics in a clear, simple manner.
 One Child
Christopher W. Cheng
Steven Woolman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1566563305
One by one, children do simple things, such as walking to school, planting a tree, and cleaning the yard, to help save the environment.
Living Treasure: Saving Earth’s Threatened Biodiversity
Laurence P. Pringle
Irene Brady (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0688077102
Discusses the variety of life on Earth, the origins of the diversity, the rapid loss, and how to save organisms from extinction. Discussions are made with clarity of how millions of species have diversified, how they are being destroyed, and some efforts being made to halt the damage. The author offers examples of important research and conservation efforts. He also discussed the problems of underdeveloped countries, greed, and the tendency to put large amount of money and energy into preserving a few popular species rather than whole habitats.
 Environment Literacy
H. Steven Dashefsky
David Rosenthal (Editor)
ISBN: 0679747745
A comprehensive handbook with key words, expressions, and concepts of one of today’s most crucial issues – the state of our planet. A reference for concerned student, citizens, or anyone who wants or needs to be informed without being overwhelmed.
 Earthwise at Home: A Guide to the Care and Feeding of Your Planet
Linda Lowery
David Mataya (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0876145853
This book suggests activities that can help save our planet, including recycling, power conservation, and smart shopping.
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