Children's books about the environment: Recently received
This guide lists children's books and young adult literature that deal with issues surrounding the environment, ecology, conservation, or pollution.
Recent books
- Black beach: a community, an oil spill, and the origin of Earth Day by Shaunna Stith & John Stith; Maribel Lechuga (Ill.)Publication Date: 2023Ages 6-9; Gr.2-3.
Based on actual events, Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day follows Sam and her classmates as they fight back. Sam initially feels powerless watching her parents and neighbors try to clean up the oil spill. But as her awareness grows, she learns she's not alone in caring for the Earth. The impact of the spill seeps into living rooms and classrooms across the nation. People everywhere are motivated to act, and a movement to protect and celebrate the environment is born. - Little Tree and the wood wide web by Hannah Abbo (Ill.); Lucy BrownridgePublication Date: 2023Ages 5-7; Gr.1-Gr.2.
Little Tree and the Wood Wide Web is a powerful picture book, that teaches children about a the world of trees and the community which they create. - The forest in the sea: seaweed solutions to planetary problems by Anita SanchezPublication Date: 2023Ages 8-12; Gr.3-6.
Meet an unlikely climate change hero- the wet, slimy stuff known as seaweed. Imagine forests where you can float weightlessly among schools of fish. Huge green pastures where sea turtles graze. Forests that capture carbon from seawater and breathe out oxygen. The answers to many of our planet's problems may lie underwater, in these forests of seaweed. - A river of dust: the life-giving link between North Africa and the Amazon by Jilanne Hoffmann; Eugenia Mello (Ill.)Publication Date: 2023Lexile measure AD1180L; Ages 5-8; K-Gr.3.
The dust of the Sahel--a ribbon of land between the Sahara and the savannah--lifts with the harmattan wind each winter season. But this is not just any dust. The Sahel's dust will mix with dust from the Sahara and travel thousands of miles westward, across the African continent and the Atlantic Ocean, to reunite with its unforgotten home deep in the Amazon basin.
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