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Earth Day
Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World
Pete Salmansohn and Stephen W. Kress
Non-Fiction
Ages 10 to 13
Tilbury House, 2003, 0-88448-237-5
To find out more about Earth Day please visit the Earth Day website. For more book reviews related to this topic visit the National Arbor Day Feature page for some wonderful books about trees.
Eye of the Wolf
Daniel Pennac
Illustrated by Max Grafe
Fiction
Ages 12 and up
Candlewick Press, 2002, 0-7636-1896-9
Turtle Bay
Saviour Pirotta
Illustrated by Nilesh Mistry
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 7
Frances Lincoln UK, 1997, 0-7112-1168-X
The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle
Lynne Cherry
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, 0-374-36482-6
River
Debby Atwell
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 6
Houghton Mifflin, 1999, 0-618-43952-8
Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
Picture Book
Ages 4 and up
Penguin, 1985, 0-14-050539-3
The Blue & Green Ark: An Alphabet for Planet Earth
Brian Patten
Illustrated by eleven notable children's book illustrators
Picture Book
Ages 5 and up
Scholastic UK, 1999, 0-590-11389-5
The Paper Bag Prince
Colin Thompson
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Random House UK, 1994, 0-0999-3320-9
Moondog
John A. Rowe
Picture Book
Ages 3 to 5
Penguin, 2005, 0-698-40031-3
Earth Day Birthday
Pattie Schnetzler
Illustrated by Chad Wallace
Picture Book
Ages 4 to 7
Dawn, 2003, 1-58469-054-2
The Trouble with Henry: A Tale of Walden Pond
Deborah O’Neal and Angela Westengard
Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Historical Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 9
Candlewick Press, 2005, 076361828-4
Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America
Kathi Appelt
Illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 7 to 10
HarperCollins, 2005, 0-06-001107-6
Earth Day
Linda Lowery
Illustrations by Mary Bergherr
Foreword by Gaylord Nelson
Non-Fiction
Ages 5 to 8
Lerner, 1991, 1-57505-620-8
I Love Our Earth
Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson
Photographs by Dan Lipow
Non-Fiction
Ages 3 to 6
Charlesbridge, 2006, 1-58089-106-3
Re-Cycles
Michael Elsohn Ross
Illustrated by Gustav Moore
Non-Fiction
Ages 6 to 8
Lerner, 2002, 0-7613-1949-2
Planet Patrol: A Kid’s Action guide to Earth Care
Marybeth Lorbiecki
Illustrated by Nancy Meyers
Non-Fiction
Ages 8 to 12
Two-Can Publishing, 2005, 1-58728-514-2
John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist
Kathryn Lasky
Illustrated by Stan Fellows
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 11
Candlewick Press, 2006, 076361957-4
Abigale the Happy Whale
Peter Farrelly
Illustrated by Jamie Rama
Picture Book
Ages 6 to 8
Little Brown, 2006, 0-316-01190-8
Uno’s Garden
Graeme Base
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Abrams, 2006, 08109-5473-7
Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth
Lee Welles
Illustrated by Ann Hameister
Fiction (Series)
Ages 9 to 12
Daisyworld Press, 2006, 1-933609-00-1
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
David McLimans
Non-Fiction picture Book
Ages 4 to 6
Walker, 2006, 0-8027-9563-3
A North America Rain Forest Scrapbook
Virginia Wright-Frierson
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 6 to 10
Walker, 1999, 0-8027-7651-5
Our Big Home: An Earth Poem
Linda Glaser
Art by Elisa Kleven
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Lerner, 2000, 0-7613-1776-7
Someday a Tree
Eve Bunting
Illustrated by Ronald Himler
Picture Book
Ages 5 to 8
Clarion, 1993, 0-395-76478-5
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