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Children's books about the environment

Last Updated: 10-Mar-2015

This guide lists children's books and young adult literature that deal with issues surrounding the environment, ecology, conservation, or pollution.

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Table of Contents

Recently received

Cover image of What's the difference
What's the difference? : an endangered animal subtraction story / by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Joan Waites.
Mount Pleasant, S.C. : Sylvan Dell Publishing, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL83 .S52 2010
Lexile Measure 960; Book level 5; Ages 4-8; Gr.Prk-3
Parrots over Puerto Rico / by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore ; collages by Susan L. Roth.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .P7 R68 2013
Lexile measure 960; Ages 6-11; Gr.2-5
Cover image of Coral Reefs
Coral reefs / Jason Chin.
1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GB461 .C45 2011
Lexile measure 1010; Ages 2-4; Gr.k-3
Can we save the tiger? / Martin Jenkins ; illustrated by Vicky White.
1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL83 .J473 2011 F
Lexile measure 970; Book level 5.9; Ages 7 and up
The mangrove tree : planting trees to feed families / by Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore ; collages by Susan L. Roth.
1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » SD397 .M25 R68 2011
Lexile measure 1190
You are stardust / Elin Kelsey ; artwork by Soyeon Kim.
Toronto, Ont. : Owlkids Books, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GF48 .K453 2012
Ages 4-7; Gr.k-2; "Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they are connected to the natural world around them."

Other books

Cover image of Baby Coyote and the old woman
Baby Coyote and the old woman = El coyotito y la viejita / Carmen Tafolla ; illustrated by Matt Novak.
New edition designed and edited by Bryce Milligan San Antonio, Tex. : Wings Press, c2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » PZ7 .T116 B33 2000
Book level 3.9
Cactus hotel / Brenda Z. Guiberson ; illustrated by Megan Lloyd.
New York : H. Holt, 1993.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QK495 .C11 G85 1993
Ages 4-8
The carbon diaries 2015 / Saci Lloyd.
1st American ed. New York : Holiday House, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3612 .L693 C37 2009
Lexile measure 690; Book level 4.4; Ages 12 and up; Gr.7-12
The chiru of high Tibet : a true story / written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Linda Wingerter.
Boston, [MA] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL737 .U53 M2274 2010
Lexile measure 900; Book level 4.9; Gr.3-5
Cover image of Everglades
Everglades / Jean Craighead George ; paintings by Wendell Minor.
1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1995.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » F317 .E9 G3 1995
Lexile Measure 660; Book level 4; Ages 4-10; Gr.2-4
Fire / Celia Godkin.
Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH545 .F5 G63 2006
Book level 4.9; Ages 6-9;
Hoot / Carl Hiaasen.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2003.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3558 .I217 H66 2002
Lexile measure 760; Book level 5.2; Ages 9-12; Gr.5-8
How we know, what we know, about our changing climate : scientists and kids explore global warming / by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch ; with a foreword by David Sobel.
1st ed. Nevada City, CA : Dawn Publications, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QC981.8 .C5 C475 2008
Lexile measure 1170; Book level 8.4; Ages 10-14; gr.4-7
Cover image of In the small, small pond
In the small, small pond / Denise Fleming.
New York : H. Holt, c1993.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3556 .L438 I5 1993
Book level 2; Ages 3-6
A life in the wild : George Schaller's struggle to save the last great beasts / Pamela S. Turner.
1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL31 .S277 T87 2008
Lexile measure 1020; Book level 7.2; Ages 11 and up; Gr.5-9
The Lorax / by Dr. Seuss.
New York : Random House, c1999.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3513 .E2 L67 1999
Ages 4-8; Gr.Prk-2
My season with penguins : an Antarctic journal / Sophie Webb.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .S473 W42 2000
Lexile measure 1040; Book level 6.9; Ages 11 and up
Cover image of Planting the trees of Kenya
Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai / Claire A. Nivola.
1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c2008 +
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » SB63 .M22 N58 2008
Lexile measure 1030; Book level 3.9; Ages 5-12; Gr.k-4
A river ran wild : an environmental history / Lynne Cherry.
1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » F72 .N37 C44 1992
Lexile measure 670; Book level 4.7; Ages 6-10
Saving the buffalo / Albert Marrin.
New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL737 .U53 M227 2006
Book level 7.1; Ages 11-14; Ages 9-12
Secret place / by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Ted Rand.
New York : Clarion Books, c1996.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3552 .U4735 S43 1996
Lexile measure 590; Book level 3; Ages 5-8
Cover image of Seeds of change
Seeds of change : planting a path to peace / by Jen Cullerton Johnson ; illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler.
1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » SB63 .M22 J646 2010
Lexile measure 820; Book level 4.8; Ages 7-10; Gr.2-4
Ship breaker / by Paolo Bacigalupi.
1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3602 .A3447 S48 2010
Lexile measure 690; Book level 4.4; Ages 12 and up; Gr.9-12
This is my planet : the kids' guide to global warming / Jan Thornhill.
Toronto : Maple Tree Press, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QC981.8 .G56 T46 2007
Book level 7.6; Ages 8-14
Ting and the possible futures / [writer, Carole Douglis ; illustrator Adrienne Kennaway].
[Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme], 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QC981.8 .C5 D68 2008
Cover image of Togu and the trees of life
Togu and the trees of life / [writer, Carole Douglis ; illustrator, Adrienne Kennaway].
[Nairobi, Kenya] : United Nations Environment Programme, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3604 .O934 T64 2007
Tracking trash : flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion / Loree Griffin Burns.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GC232 .B87 2007
Lexile measure 1200; Book level 8.5; Ages 10-16; Gr.5-9
Where once there was a wood / Denise Fleming.
1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1996.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL59 .F58 1996
Book leavel 2.5; Ages 5-8; Gr.k-2
Weird weather : everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out / Kate Evans ; with an introduction by George Monbiot.
Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QC903.15 .E93 2007
Ages 12 and up; gr.7-12