Want to instill a healthy pro-environment mentality in your children? Check out this Green Reading List from the National Environmental Education Foundation, which includes a fantastic selection of new and classic books for all ages.
Elementary School:
The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute (Anymore) by Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Where There Once Was a Wood by Denise Flemming
The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein
Where does the garbage go by Paul Showers
Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap by Larraine Roulston
A Day in the Salt Marsh by Kevin Kurtz
Where Butterflies Grow by Joann Ryder
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
The Dragon and the Unicorn by Lynne Cherry
Forests for All by Melanie Richardson Dundy
Middle School:
The Big Book for Our Planet by Jean Craighead George
Bird Boy by Elizabeth Starr Hill
The Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Ecological Mystery by Jean Craighead George
The Earth is Painted Green: A Garden of Poems about Our Planet by Barbara Brenner
How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch
Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau by Jim Murphy
High School:
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists by Jeannine Atkins
Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists by Paul Russell Cartright
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers
To view the full list, please visit: http://www.eeweek.org/resources/green_reading.
