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Theresa at the Rathbun Branch Library will be reading Biscuit's Earth Day Celebration & Earth Day Stay tuned afterward for a fun craft! |
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Earth Day, Birthday! by Maureen WrightIt's April 22, and Lion and his friends want to plant trees, recycle bottles and have fun on Earth Day, but silly Monkey wants to celebrate his birthday instead. By the author of Sneezy the Snowman.
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My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlanDie-cut pages invite reader to explore how Earth is a friend to all creatures, watching over us as the year cycles through the seasons.
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Thank you, Earth : A Love Letter to Our Planet by April Pulley SayreThe award-winning photographer and author of Best in Snow presents a striking, visual love letter to the planet that introduces children to concepts in science, nature and other disciplines through vibrant, close-up images of subjects ranging from plants and animals to weather and natural-world landscapes.
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Compost stew : An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary McKenna SiddalsA rhyming recipe explains how to make the dark, crumbly, rich, earth-friendly food called compost while collage illustrations made with recycled and found materials echo the eco-friendly message. By the author of Millions of Snowflakes.
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The Curious Garden by Peter BrownLiam discovers a hidden garden and, with careful tending, spreads color throughout the dark, gray city, in this imaginative picture book with an environmental theme.
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Books For Adults About Earth Day
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The Ends of the World by Peter BrannenA vivid tour of Earth's five mass extinctions profiles the vibrant worlds that were destroyed and rebuilt during each cycle, explaining what today's scientists are learning from ancient fossils about 21st-century climate change. |
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The Green Bookby Elizabeth RogersA valuable handbook on everyday environmental awareness introduces an array of simple but practical personal choices that anyone can make to enhance the environment, from running only full loads in the dishwasher or using fewer paper napkins to adjusting the home thermostat.
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by F. B. M. de WaalA Time magazine top-100 influential notable and the author of Our Inner Ape presents a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence that offers a revolutionary exploration of the intricate and complex nature of the animal mind. |
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signsby Tristan GooleyBased on the author's outdoor experiences, presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon. |
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It's Easy Being Greenby Crissy TraskProvides a comprehensive guide to adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products, shopping for green products online, participating in online activism, and learning tips for cultivating a sustainable environment, such as collecting rainwater from your roof to use in the garden, submerging a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush, and more.
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