Learn to be Green Together Picture Books

Family Literacy Week 2025's (Jan 25- Feb 1) theme is "Learn to be Green Together." Start the conversation with these picture books!

Updated January 4, 2025
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Walking Together
Paper Book
This bestselling, innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk--or Two-Eyed Seeing, the gift of multiple perspectives in the Mi'kmaw language--as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration...
How to be human : a bear's guide
Kolinas, Sophia
Paper Book
A bear and a girl form an unlikely friendship as they show each other the important things in life Once there was a bear who lived in a forest and did all the regular bear things. But as his home and the world around him change--fewer fish, fewer trees, and less quiet--he notices how...
Mermaid Kenzie : protector of the deeps
Sherman, Charlotte Watson
Paper Book
Kenzie turns her fierce love for the ocean into action, resourcefully cleaning up the beach after her mermaid-tail swimsuit tangles in floating plastic bags. When Kenzie slips on her mermaid tail, she becomes Mermaid Kenzie, protector of the deeps. One day as Kenzie snorkels...
Minnow : the girl who became part fish /
Poll, Willie
Paper Book
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey; learning from our ocean-living relatives. When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change.This story is told in lyrical rhyme and helps children gain a better respect for Indigenous water...
Little land
Sudyka, Diana
Paper Book
Inspire a love of nature in young readers with this gorgeous, simple guide--and learn how, through millennia of transformations, life and land have always found a way to begin anew, for nature-loving fans of Kate Messner's Over and Under series.  Do you know...
Angela's glacier
Scott, Jordan
Paper Book
Award-winning author Jordan Scott's luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that's always there to listen. Angela listened to the glacier; the glacier listened to Angela. As soon as she's born, Angela's father...
Animals in Need. The Bear Circle
DeLange, Ellen.
A sweet and informative picture book about bears. For animal lovers ages 5 years and up. When Little Teddy Bear receives an invitation to a secret meeting, he doesn't hesitate and leaves right away. Upon arriving at the meeting place after a long journey, he's surprised to see seven large...
A good place
Cousins, Lucy
Paper Book
From the creator of Maisy, a joyful picture book with a gentle environmental message finds four insect friends in search of a good place to live. Bee, Ladybug, Beetle, and Dragonfly are looking for somewhere to live. And each has a different want: Bee loves flowers, Ladybug...
Walking trees
Gay, Marie-Louise
Paper Book
Lily wants a tree for her birthday. Although she and her father live in a tiny dark apartment, she promises to give it water and sun and air. But after she receives her tree--whom she names George--even Lily can't imagine how their daily walks will change the neighborhood! With George in a...

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