Books on
Nature

A Sea of Words: An ABC of the Deep Blue Sea

By Toft, Kim Michelle

A Tree is a Plant

By Clyde Robert Bulla
Illustrated by Stacey Schuett

A Tree Is Nice

By Janice May Udry
Illustrated by Marc Simont

Aani and the Tree Huggers

By Jeannine Atkins
Illustrated by Venantius J. Pinto

Amoako and the Forest

By Deborah Cowley
Illustrated by Kathy Knowles

Ancient Ones: The World of the Old-Growth Douglas Fir

By Barbara Bash
Illustrated by Barbara Bash

Ang Huling Puno (The Last Tree)

By Retold by Richard Reynante
Illustrated by Arnould Nuestro

Atlantic

By Karas, G. Brian

Bird Songs

By Betsy Franco
Illustrated by Steve Jenkins

Bird Talk: What Birds are Saying and Why

By Lita Judge

Can We Drink the Ocean?: A Book about Water

By Roceles-Jimenez, Gidget
Illustrated by Roxas, Isabel

Can We Live Without Trees?

By May Tobias-Papa
Illustrated by Jill Milroy

Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life: A Story of Sustainable Farming

By Reynolds, Jan

Dingo’s Tree

By Gladys Milroy and Jill Milroy
Illustrated by Jill Milroy

El Regalo de Fernando (Fernando’s Gift)

By Douglas Keister

Feathers: Not Just for Flying

By Melissa Stewart
Illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves

By Julia Rawlinson
Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke

For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson

By Peggy Thomas
Illustrated by Laura Jacques

Green

By Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?

By Rita Gray
Illustrated by Kenard Pak

In the Heart of the Village: The World of the Indian Banyan Tree

By Barbara Bash

In The Tree House

By Andrew Larsen
Illustrated by Dusan Petricic

Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream

By Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by Wendell Minor

Island: A Story of the Galápagos

By Jason Chin
Illustrated by Jason Chin

Let’s Plant Trees

By Vinod Lal Heera Eshwe

Lost in the Gardens

By J.H. Low

Mama Built a Little Nest

By Jennifer Ward
Illustrated by Steve Jenkins

Mango Trees

By Tae-yeon Kim, English Edited by: Joy Cowley
Illustrated by Gu-seon Muhn

Maple

By Lori Nichols

Moon Forest

By Patricia MacCarthy

Narmada: A Pictorial Journey down the River

By Vidya Shah
Illustrated by Photographs by Parthiv Shah

Noong Unang Panahon (Once Upon a Time)

By Rafaelita Valera
Illustrated by Ghani Madueño

On the Wing

By David Elliott
Illustrated by Becca Stadtlander

Our Home is the Sea

By Levinson, Riki
Illustrated by Luzak, Dennis

Our Planet

By Jimi Lee

Paddy the Flying Pulai

By Ong Su Qing Miranda, Mock Yuan Ning, Darryl Lee Xing Jie, Ong Dingjie, Ng Jun How Melvin
Illustrated by Sean Yap, Summer Seet Shiying

Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City

By Janet Schulman
Illustrated by Meilo So

Picture A Tree

By Barbara Reid

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai

By Claire A. Nivola

Rainforest Surprise

By Samantha Ong
Illustrated by Low Khay Yhooi

Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

By Joyce Sidman
Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski

Rice is Life

By Gelman, Rita Golden
Illustrated by Choi, Yangsook

Seed Magic

By Jane Buchanan
Illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb

Sequioa

By Tony Johnston
Illustrated by Wendell Minor

Shinsekai e (To the New World)

By Hiroshi Abe

Shu Ye Niao (Leaf Birds)

By Bing Bo
Illustrated by Fei Jia

Splash! Poems of Our Watery World

By Levy, Constance
Illustrated by Soman, David

Surprise

By Mies Van Hout

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audobon

By Jacqueline Davies
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet

The Curious Garden

By Peter Brown

The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian tale

By Lucine Kasbarian
Illustrated by Maria Zaikina

The Iridescence of Birds

By Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrated by Hadley Hooper

The Journey of a Little Coconut

By Maung Ye Thu

The King of Sailfish

By Li Ruqing
Illustrated by Li Ruqing

The Little Humming Bird

By Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Illustrated by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

The Lorax

By Dr. Seuss

The Lost Lake

By Say, Allen

The Mango Tree

By Hidayah Amin
Illustrated by Idris Ali

The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families

By Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore

The Old Tree

By Ruth Brown

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree

By Gail Gibbons

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist

By Margarita Engle
Illustrated by Aliona Bereghici

The Tin Forest

By Helen Ward
Illustrated by Wayne Anderson

The Tree in the Ancient Forest

By Carol Reed-Jones
Illustrated by Christopher Caynon

The Tree Lady: The Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

By H. Joseph Hopkins
Illustrated by Jill McElmurry

The Trees in the Garden

By Cheewan Wisasa
Illustrated by Preeda Panyachand

Thea’s Tree

By Judith Clay

There Was a Tree

By Rachel Isadora
Illustrated by Nancy Paulsen Books

Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth

By Rochelle Strauss
Illustrated by Margot Thompson

Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab

By Barbara Bash

Turtle and Dolphin : Making the Beach Clean

By Dunkle, Maggie
Illustrated by Margiyono

Water Hole Waiting

By Kurtz, Jane. Kurtz, Christopher
Illustrated by Christiansen, Lee

Water Stories from Around the World

By Menon, Radhika & Rao, Sandhya (Editors)

Wave

By Suzy Lee

We Planted A Tree

By Diane Muldrow
Illustrated by Bob Staake