Environmental Activism, Sustainability, Appreciation of Nature
Fiction
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Phillipe Cousteau and Deborah Hopkinson
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg – a boy plants a tree for a more sustainable future after he has an unpleasant dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-9JCqMO5Wo
Prince William by Gloria Rand- a young girl rescues a seal covered with oil
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=prince+william+book+seal+gloria+rand
Thanks to the Animals by Allen J. Sockabasin
The Eagles Are Back! By Jean Craighead George – a young boy assists in saving eagles
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmbSJjXzFk
Nonfiction
A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry – a river goes from pristine to polluted, but with effort recovers its original beauty
Brother Eagle Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers – Chief Seattle’s words of wisdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milJHghIdII
Eye of the Whale: A Rescue Story by Jennifer O’Connell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEovaA0WQl4
Luna & Me: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Rachel Carson and her Book that Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
Redwoods by Jason Chin
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynee Cherry – animals whisper to a sleeping man who had started to cut down a tree in the rainforest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw
Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter – about the Nobel Prize Winner’s greening of Kenya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YId88oYpyMM