Lynne Cherry

Gary Braasch

Describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from alterations in tree rings to bird migration patterns--how students and other citizen-scientists can assist climate change monitoring and what can be done to mitigate global warming.

Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming

How We Know, what We Know, about Our Changing Climate

An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.

An Environmental History

A River Ran Wild

A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.

The Sea, the Storm, and the Mangrove Tangle

The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest

The Great Kapok Tree

An Ennironmental History : Level F

A wandering armadillo sees some of the cities, historic sites, geographic features, and wildlife of Texas.

The Armadillo from Amarillo

Joanne Ryder

Describes what it feels like to change from a caterpillar into a butterfly, and includes gardening tips to attract butterflies.

Where Butterflies Grow

Mark J. Plotkin

In a Tirio village deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, the shaman Nahtahlah has a place of honor in his tribe. Young Kamanya wants to learn the healing secrets of the forest plants--he hopes that he, too, will become the tribe’s shaman, so that he can cure his people. When the villagers fall sick with an illness that Nahtahlah cannot cure, many lose faith in the shaman’s wisdom--until a foreign woman helps them understand its value while giving Kamanya an opportunity to realize his dream. Lynne Cherry returns to the rain forest with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin to tell an important story about the healing plants of the earth-and why we must protect them.

The Shaman's Apprentice

The great kapok tree : a tale of the amazon rain forrest

Lucia Monfried

Introduces the snow leopard as it teaches its cubs to survive in their high mountain home.

Snow Leopard

Valerio the dragon and Allegra the unicorn are driven into hiding when humans begin to destroy the natural beauty of their land, but they receive hope when they befriend the daughter of the man responsible.

The Dragon and the Unicorn

A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on one another" . . . and it works. Cherry’s lovingly rendered colored pencil and watercolor drawings of all the "wondrous and rare animals" evoke the lush rain forests. Features stunning world maps bordered by detailed illustrations of fascinating rainforest creatures. An IRA Teacher’s Choice (1991), ABA’s Pick of the Lists, Reading Rainbow Review Book, NSTA-CBC Outstanding Trade Book for Children.

Lynne Cherry

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