Children's books about the environment

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

Table of Contents

Recently received

Pond / Jim LaMarche.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3562 .A42167 P66 2016
PrK-Gr.2
Journey : based on the true story of OR7, the most famous wolf in the West / Emma Bland Smith ; illustrated by Robin James.
Cover image of Journey : based on the true story of OR7, the most famous wolf in the West
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3619 .M5842 J68 2016
Gr.1-3
Endangered sea turtles / Bobbie Kalman.
New York, N.Y. : Crabtree Pub. Co., ©2004.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL666 .C536 K34 2004
Ages 8-10; Gr.3-6
Sara vai à praia / Gisele Gama Andrade.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PQ9698.41 .N363 S27 2013
Elementary; written in Portuguese
Stripes in the forest : the story of the last wild thylacine / written by Aleesah Darlison ; illustrated by Shane McGrath.
Cover image of Stripes in the forest : the story of the last wild thylacine
2016 collector's edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR9619.4 .D354 S77 2016
Elementary
Animal ark : celebrating our wild world in poetry and pictures / photographs by Joel Sartore, Photo Ark creator ; words by Kwame Alexander ; with Mary Rand Hess and Deanna Nikaido.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3601 .L35388 A84 2017
K-Gr.3
Green city : how one community survived a tornado and rebuilt for a sustainable future / Allan Drummond.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GE195.5 .D78 2016
Lexile measure 770; Ages 5-8; K-Gr.3
Because of an acorn / by Lola M. Schaefer and Adam Schaefer ; illustrations by Frann Preston-Gannon.
Cover image of Because of an acorn
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH104.5 .C66 S33 2016
Ages 3-6; PrK-K; Outstanding Science Tradebooks, 2017
Animals by the numbers : a book of infographics / Steve Jenkins.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL49 .J4453 2016
Lexile measure 840; Ages 8-12; Gr.2-6; Outstanding science trade books, 2017
About marine mammals : a guide for children / Cathryn Sill ; illustrated by John Sill.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL713.2 .S547 2016
Lexile measure AD550L; Ages 3-7; PrK-Gr.2; Outstanding science trade books, 2017
Hopping ahead of climate change : snowshoe hares, science, and survival / Sneed B. Collard III.
Cover image of Hopping ahead of climate change : snowshoe hares, science, and survival
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL737 .L32 C655 2016
Ages 7-12; Gr.2-5
Rivers of sunlight : how the sun moves water around the earth / by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm ; illustrated by Molly Bang.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GB848 .B36 2016
Lexile measure AD820L; Ages 5-7; PrK-Gr.3
A global warming primer : answering your questions about the science, the consequences, and the solutions / Jeffrey Bennett.
Earth Sciences Library (Branner) » Stacks » QC981.8 .G56 B466 2016
Gr. 9 and up; NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2017
Creekfinding : a true story / Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Claudia McGehee.
Cover image of Creekfinding : a true story
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH541.14 .M35 2017
Ages 5-8; Gr.1-3
One plastic bag : Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia / Miranda Paul ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » HD4485 .A358 P38 2015
Lexile measure AD480L; Ages 5-9; Gr.1-4
Tokyo digs a garden / Jon-Erik Lappano ; pictures by Kellen Hatanaka.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR9199.4 .L368 T65 2016
Ages 3-7; PrK-Gr.2
I am Sausal Creek = Soy el Arroyo Sausal / story/cuento Melissa Reyes ; illustrations/ilustraciones Robert Trujillo ; translation/traducción Cinthya Muñoz.
Cover image of I am Sausal Creek
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GB1227 .S28 R49 2015
Elementary
Untamed : the wild life of Jane Goodall / Anita Silvey, forward by Jane Goodall.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL31 .G58 S55 2015
Lexile measure 1100; Ages 8-13; Gr.4-7
Wangari Maathai : the woman who planted millions of trees / Franck Prévot ; illustrated by Aurélia Fronty.
First US edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » GE56 .M33 P7413 2015
Ages 6-9; Gr.2-5
Nature ranger / by Richard Walker ; Consultant, Dr. Don E. Wilson, Curator Emeritus, Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Cover image of Nature ranger
Revised edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH48 .W25 2015
Ages 8-12; Gr.2-7
Cry jungle children / Bonnie Lubega.
Nairobi : East African Literature Bureau, 1974.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR9379.9 .L83 C79 1974
Thara meets the Cassipoohkaman / by Gaele Sobott-Mogwe ; illustrated by Hannie Koch.
Harare : Baobab Books, [1992?]
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR9390.9 .S63 T48 1992
Eyes wide open : going behind the environmental headlines / Paul Fleischman.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » TD170.15 .F54 2014
Ages 12 and up; Gr.6-10
What's the difference? : an endangered animal subtraction story / by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Joan Waites.
Cover image of What's the difference
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
Coral reefs / Jason Chin.
Cover image of Coral Reefs
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

Baby Coyote and the old woman = El coyotito y la viejita / Carmen Tafolla ; illustrated by Matt Novak.
Cover image of Baby Coyote and the old woman
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
Everglades / Jean Craighead George ; paintings by Wendell Minor.
Cover image of Everglades
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
In the small, small pond / Denise Fleming.
Cover image of In the small, small pond
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
Planting the trees of Kenya : the story of Wangari Maathai / Claire A. Nivola.
Cover image of Planting the trees of Kenya
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
Seeds of change : planting a path to peace / by Jen Cullerton Johnson ; illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler.
Cover image of Seeds of change
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
Togu and the trees of life / [writer, Carole Douglis ; illustrator, Adrienne Kennaway].
Cover image of Togu and the trees of life
[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