Earth Day Books

Earth Day Books
1. Wartville wizard
2. Farewell to shady glade
3. Where once there was a wood (Fleming, Denise)=20
4. The lorax (Dr. Seuss)
5. The dumpster drive (Wong, Janet)
6. Uno's garden (Base, Graeme)
7. The water hole (Base, Graeme)
8. Meadowview street (Cole, Henry)
9. Trouble with dragons (Gliori, Debi)
10. Snowy white world to save (Tara, Stephanie Lisa)=20
11.50 simple things you can do to save the earth=20
12. The Edge of the Forest
13. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky:=20
14. A Message from Chief Seattle
15. Someday a Tree
16. "Curious George Plants a Tree"
17. A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry.
18. Caves: Mysteries Beneath Our Feet;=20
19. Glaciers: Nature's Ice Caps; Volcanoes:=20
20. Nature's Incredible Fireworks;=20
21. Oceans: the Vast, Mysterious Deep;=20
22. Mountains: the Tops of the World by David L. Harrison.
Gag - Milliions of cats (greedy)

Kerley - A cool drink of water
Base - Around the water hole
Orr - My grandpa and the sea
MacGill-Callahan - And still the turtle watched Green - The old ladies
who liked cats (web of life)
Abel's Island
By William Steig
Agatha's Feather Bed : Not Just Another Wild Goose Story
by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Laura L. Seeley
Unlimited material for discussion captured in an enchanting story about
"sources of things" -- I cannot say enough great things about this book!
Alejandro's Gift
By Richard Albert, illustrated by Sylvia Long
Be Nice to Spiders
by Margaret Bloom Graham, Margaret Bloy Graham
Great book to spur discussion about how even the smallest creatures are
important.
Ben's Dream
By Chris Van Allsburg
Children of the Earth: Remember
by Schim Schimmel
Out of love and concern for their planet, the animals and people of
Mother Earth work together to protect the natural world.
The Day the Trash Came Out to Play
By David Deadle
Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter from Home
by Schim Schimmel
Mother Earth writes a letter telling people about herself and asking
them to take care of her for themselves and for all living creatures.
Beautiful book for all ages

Dear Children of the Earth
By Shim Schimmel
The Dirt on Dirt
by Paulette Bourgeois with Kathy Vanderlinden, illustrated by Martha
Newbigging
Learn how a grain of African sand can hitch a ride on hot desert air and
travel thousands of miles to settle under your bed. This wide-ranging
book tackles the tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the role mud plays
in the creation of fossils and the mega-problem of landfills tainted by
chemicals. Home project ideas include growing an edible teepee with pole
beans. There are factoids galore: Charles Darwin observed, when he
played classical music to his earthworms, that they ate on high notes
and headed underground on low ones.
Earth Day Birthday
By Pattie Schnetzler
Earth Day-Hooray!
By Stuart J Murphy, illustrated by Renee Andriani
Eco Babies Wear Green
by Michelle Sinclair Colman, illustrated by Nathalie Dion
This bite-size board book features trendy tots decked out in all-natural
knits. Dad's got a rubber ducky tattooed on his arm as he changes baby's
green-colored diaper on the opening page. Eco babies are tree-huggers,
bike passengers, Cheerio-tossing composters and know to always, always
turn off the lights.

Farewell to Shady Glade
By Bill Peet
The Garbage Monster
By Joni Sensel, illustrated by Christopher L: Bibins
The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
"Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy." "Every day the
boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches,
or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew
older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave
and gave."
Gone Wild
By David McLimans
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
by Lynne Cherry
Beautifully illustrated book about conserving the rainforest and the
animal habitats in it.
Great Trash Bash
By Loreen Leedy
The Green Book
By Jill Paton Walsh
Hoot
By Carl Hiaasen
The Hunt for Spring
by Susan O'Halloran, illustrated by Dick Smolinski
I know it's a little late for this year, but I would definitely
recommend that you purchase '10 Things I Can Do to Help My World' by
Melanie Walsh. It is short and to the point, and it really opened up
discussion on Earth Day topics... even with kindergarten! My teachers
have begged me to buy more copies of it for next year. After each
suggestion (I will... turn out the lights when I leave the room.), I had
a ton of hands in the air wanting to tell me that they do that every day
As an extension activity, I had drawings of the earth copied (on
recycled paper!). The students took an Earth Day suggestion from the
book, and drew it in the Earth (the older kids wrote it out in
sentences). They cut it out, and we taped them to the wall to make a
collage of Earth Day suggestions.
I've been using The Earth and I by Frank Asch with my kindergartners.
After reading it, we brainstorm how we help the Earth and how it helps
us, then we make a little craft (!) with markers, a coffee filter, and a
spray water bottle. The Earth comes out looking just like the
watercolors in the book.