Parent/Teacher : Teacher's Lounge :
Bibliography : Children's Books


Books For Teachers And Parents About The Environment, Science, And Nature:

Ableman, M. 1998. On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm. San Francisco: Chronicle.

Booth, D. 1995. Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press.

Carson, R. 1962. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

______. 1984. The Sense of Wonder. Berkeley, CA: The Nature Company.

Chancer, J. and G. Rester-Zodrow. 1997. Moon Journals: Writing, Art, and Inquiry Through Focused Nature Study. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Coules, V. 1999. Forces of the Wild. UK: Blandford.

Dennis, J. 1992. It's Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky. New York: HarperCollins.

Duensing, E. 1997. Talking to Fireflies Shrinking the Moon: Nature Activities for All Ages.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum.

Elder, J., ed. 1996. American Nature Writers. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons.

Gore, A. 1993. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. New York: Plume.

Hanson, J.K., and D. Morrison. 1991. Of Kinkajous, Capybaras, Horned Beetles, Seladangs and the Oddest and Most Wonderful Mammals, Insects, Birds and Plants of Our World. New York: HarperCollins.

Heinrich, B. 1994. A Year in the Maine Woods. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

______. 1997. The Trees of My Forest. New York: HarperCollins.

Hinchman, H. 1991. A Life in Hand. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith.

Katz, A. 1986. Naturewatch. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Laughlin, R.K. 1996. Backyard Bugs. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle.

McVey, V. 1989. The Sierra Club Wayfinding Book. San Francisco, CA: Little, Brown.

Muir, J. 1988. My First Summer in the Sierra. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club.

Nabhan, G.P. and S. Trimble. 1994. The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston: Beacon Press.

National Geographic Society. 1997. Restless Earth: Disasters of Nature. Washington DC: National Geographic Society.

Orion. Great Barrington, MA: Orion Society and Myrin Institute.

Thoreau, H.D. 1991. Walden or, Life in the Woods. New York: Random House.

Van Dover C.L. 1997. Deep-Ocean Journey: Discovering New Life at the Bottom of the Sea. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Whiteley, O. 1984. Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart. New York: Three Rivers Press.

Williams, T.T. 1994. An Unspoken Hunger. New York: Random House.