Children and Nature: Read Green!

Children and Nature

Books for Parents

• A Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson
• An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
• Beyond Ecophobia, David Sobel
• Creation, Edward O. Wilson
• Desert Solitaire, Edward Abby
• Hands-on Nature, Susan Sawyer
• Infinite Nature, R. Bruce Hull
• Into the Field: A Guide to Locally Focused Teaching, Clare Walker Leslie
• It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living, Crissy Trask
• Kids Nature Book, Susan Milord
• Listening Point, Sigurd Olson
• Listening to Nature, Joseph Cornell
• National Audubon Society Field Guide Series
• Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• The Condor's Shadow, David Wilcove
• The Geography of Childhood, Gary Nabham

Books for Adolescents

• Brian's Winter, Gary Paulsen
• Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Patterson
• Drawn to Nature Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie, Clare Walker Leslie
• Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
• Heidi, Johanna Spyri
• Hoot, Carl Hiassen
• Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth
• My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan
• The Brute, Mike Klaassen
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
• The Wild Girls, Pat Murphy

Books for Children

• A River Ran Wild, Lynne Cherry
• Duck Tents, Lynne Berry
• Earthdance, Joann Ryder
• Jackson Jones and the Curse of the Outlaw Rose, Mary Quattlebaum
• Just a Dream, Chris Van Allsburg
• Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss
• Mud, Mary Lyn Ray
• My First Nature Book, Angela Wilkes
• My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
• Nature In A Nutshell for Kids, Jean Potter
• Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays: The Diane Wilson Story, Molly Bang
• Other Way to Listen, I’m in Charge of Celebrations, Everybody Needs a Rock, Byrd Baylor
• Our Tree Named Steve, Alan Zweibel
• Outside Story, Edited by Chuck Wooster
• Owl Moon, Jane Yolen
• Pond Life (Golden Guide), George K. Reid, Sally D. Kaicher, and Tom Dolan
• Pond, One Small Square - Woods, Cactus Desert, Backyard, Seashore, Coral Reef, Donald Silver
• Reading the Forested Landscape, Tom Wessels
• Reading the Granite Landscape, Tom Wessels
• Ring of Earth, Jane Yolen
• Roxaboxen, Alice McLerran
• Sheep Take a Hike, Nancy Shaw
• Stella Luna, Janell Cannon
• The Adventures of Pelican Pete: Annie The River Otter, Frances and Hugh Keiser
• The Complete Adventures of the Mole Sisters, Roslyn Schwartz
• The Earth Is Painted Green, Barbara Brenner
• The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
• The Stars, H.A. Rey
• The Tree, Dana Lyons and David Lane Danioth
• The Water Boatman, William Mayne
• Tiniest Acorn, Marsha Danzig
• What’s in the Pond, What’s Under the Log, What’s in the Tide Pool, What’s in the Meadow, Grandpa’s Farm, Possum’s Harvest Moon, Anne Hunter
• When the Moon Is Full, Penny Pollock with illustrations by Mary Azarian

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