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Things Kids Can Do For the Earth
Booklist from Robbins Library Children's Department, 2008

Contents:  Non-Fiction   Audio Visual   Picture Books   Search  

Non-Fiction:

Backyard Composting:  Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings 631.8 BAC

Campbell, Stu
Let it Rot!  The Gardener’s Guide to Composting 631.875 CAM

Fenten, D.X.
Gardening ... Naturally J635 F

Gibbons, Gail
Recycle!  A Handbook for Kids J628.445 GIB

Glaser, Linda
Compost!:  Growing Gardens from your Garbage (MLN)

Graham, Ian (Energy Forever? Series)
Geothermal and Bio-Energy J333.88 GRA
Nuclear Power J333.79 GRA

Green, Jen
Why Should I Recycle? (MLN)

Green, Jen (Precious Earth series)
Energy Crisis J333.7 GRE
Waste and Recycling J333.7 GRE

Hanson, Beth (Ed)
Easy Compost:  The Secret to Great Soil and Spectacular Plants 631.875 HAN

Kalman, Bobbie
Reducing, Reusing and Recycling J363.72 KAL

Koontz, Robin Michal
Composting:  Nature’s Recyclers (MLN)

Lerner, Carol
My Backyard Garden J635 LER

Lovejoy, Sharon
Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots:  Gardening Together with Children J635 LOV

Oechsli, Helen and Kelly
In My Garden:  A Child’s Gardening Book J635 OEC

Portman, Michelle Eva
Compost, by Gosh!:  an Adventure with Vericomposting (MLN)

Richards, Julie (Future Energy Series)
Solar Power J333.7 RIC
Wind Power J333.9 RIC
Geothermal Energy and Bio-Energy J333.8 RIC

Showers, Paul
Where Does the Garbage Go (Let’s Read and Find Out series) J628.4 SHO

Stefoff, Rebecca
Recycling J363.72 STE

Taylor, Barbara
How to Save the Planet J363.7 TAY

Walker, Kate (Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Rethink)
Plastics J363.72 WAL
Household Waste J363.72 WAL
Glass J363.72 WAL
Aluminum J363.72 WAL
Steel J363.72 WAL

Waters, Marjorie
The Victory Garden Kids’ Book J635 WAT

Audio-Visual:

Bill Nye the Science Guy:  Biodiversity
DVD (MLN)

Environmental Health
DVD (MLN)

My First Green Video:  A Kids’ Guide to Ecology and Environmental Activities JVIDEO 574.5 MY

Picture Books
(Arranged alphabetically by author’s last name)

Nolen, Jerdine
Plantzilla

Fleming, Candace
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

Krauss, Ruth
The Carrot Seed

Henderson, Kathy
And the Good Brown Earth (MLN)

Murphy, Stuart J.
Earth Day-Hooray!

Parkinson, Kathy
The Enormous Turnip

Rockwell, Anne
One Bean (Fox Branch)

Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth
Recycle Every Day!

Search

This list is just a sampling of what is available in the Minuteman Library Network.  Call numbers listed are for the Robbins Library in Arlington, unless listed as MLN (Minuteman Library Network).  You can search the MLN internet catalog from home at library.minlib.net.  Some terms to try in the subject field are:

Compost—Juvenile Literature
Ecology
Ecology—Juvenile Fiction
Ecology—Juvenile Literature
Gardens
Gardens—Juvenile Fiction
Gardening
Gardening--Juvenile Fiction
Recycling
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile literature
Solar Energy—Juvenile Literature

Want more recommendations?  Scholastic kids has a list of "Keep It GREEN" books with short descriptions.

Thank you for looking for ways to help the Earth!