Celebrate Earth Day - Kids

Updated March 14, 2025
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Can I recycle this? : a kid's guide to better recycling and how to reduce single-use plastics
Romer, Jennie
Paper Book
You probably know that you're supposed to recycle--but you may not know how or why. This adaptation of the successful adult book, written by a lawyer and sustainability expert, will answer all your recycling questions. Can I Recycle This? skips over...
Cactus queen : Minerva Hoyt establishes Joshua Tree National Park
Alexander, Lori
Paper Book
A 2025 Bank Street College of Education Cook Prize Contender How did the Joshua Tree National Park in California come to be? Meet Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, an artist, activist, and environmentalist, whose determination saved the desert and helped to create the park, in this STEAM...
Amara and the bats
Reynolds, Emma
Paper Book
Environmental activism gets a nocturnal twist in this utterly charming picture book about a young girl and her mission to save the bats! Amara loves bats! Her favorite thing to do is to collect bat facts and watch the amazing mammals fly at night by her house. But...
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...
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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