Celebrate Earth Day - Kids

Updated March 26, 2025
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Earth day
Ponto, Joanna.
Paper Book
By reading about Earth Day's history and purpose as well as how it is celebrated the world over, students will learn that there is more to the holiday than just recycling and planting trees. To celebrate our planet, children can create a rock paperweight and make an Earth Day-related recipe to share...
Fire escape : how animals and plants survive wildfires
Stremer, Jessica
Paper Book
A captivating overview of the clever ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature. "Must-reading on a hot topic." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Cactus queen : Minerva Hoyt establishes Joshua Tree National Park
Alexander, Lori
Paper Book
A 2025 Bank Street College of Education Cook Prize Silver Medalist The Nature Generation's 2025 Green Earth Book Award Short List How did the Joshua Tree National Park in California come to be? Meet Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, an artist, activist, and environmentalist, whose...
On our nature walk : our first talk about our impact on the environment
Roberts, Jillian
Paper Book
Key Selling Points This book discusses the environment through an organic conversation starting with a common observation and continuing with follow-up questions that would naturally come from a young child. Sidebars define larger concepts for further discussion with older or more...
Saving Wonder
Knight, Mary
Paper Book
The wind and the trees
Stewart, Todd (Illustrator)
Paper Book
A gentle meditation on the cycle of life, told by two trees One day, a tiny pine seedling strikes up a conversation with a nearby tree. As the seedling grows larger, the older pine shares what it has learned about the strong wind that blows through the forest...
The chaos monster
DasGupta, Sayantani
Paper Book
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING, AND IT'S UP TO TWINS KIYA AND KINJAL TO SAVE IT ALL Ten-year-old Kinjal knows something strange is going on. But he does not expect his dog, Thums-up, to disappear before his eyes in the middle of the night! Even stranger, two enormous flying horses...
This little environmentalist : a love-the-Earth primer
Holub, Joan
Paper Book
Learn all about big leaders who love and protect the Earth in this engaging and inspiring board book perfect for environmentalists-in-training! Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who help protect and take care of our Earth! Highlighting ten...
Pika country : climate change at the top of the world
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
Paper Book
Pikas, tiny rabbit relatives living high in the mountains, serve as an entry point toward understanding the consequences of climate change. Pikas can't live in temperatures higher than 77 degrees F. As the Earth's temperature rises, pikas must keep moving higher and higher...
Frozen in time : what ice cores can tell us about climate change
Van Vleet, Carmella
Paper Book
A dazzling introduction to paleoclimatology for kids, connecting the methods that scientists use to study our climate history with future climate change solutions. Believe it or not, ice isn't always just frozen water.  In fact, most of the ice covering our...

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