GreenPlay Parents' Guide
Your children will bring home GreenPlay stories, but you may want to learn more. Here are some resources that we recommend . . .
Books for Adults
Catriona MacGregor, Partnering with Nature (2010).
Lester Brown, Plan B 4.0 (2009).
Daniel Goleman, Ecological Intelligence (2009).
Michael Stone, Smart By Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (2009).
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (2005).
David Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World (2005).
Peter Forbes, Coming to Land (2004).
Books for Children
Picture Books
Steven Kroll, Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (2009).
Debi Gliori, The Trouble with Dragons (2008).
Dashka Slater, The Sea Serpent & Me (2008).
Henry Cole, On Meadowview Street (2007).
Janet S. Wong, Dumpster Diver (2007).
Frank Asch, The Earth and I (1994).
Short Readers
Ted Kooser, Bag in the Wind (2010).
Peter Brown, The Curious Garden (2009).
Alison Inches, The Adventures of the Plastic Bottle (2009).
N.M. Bodecker, The Mushroom Center Disaster (1978) (a classic - don't miss it!).
Novels
Timothy de Fombelle, Toby Alone (2009).
Timothy de Fombelle, Toby and the Secrets of the Tree (2009).
Carl Hiaasen, Scat (2009).
Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries 2017 (2009).
Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2008).
Carl Hiaasen, Flush (2005).
Carl Hiaasen, Hoot (2002).
Nonfiction
Harriet Rohmer, Heroes of the Environment (2009).
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Our Living Earth (2008).
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, The Future of the Earth (2003).
Catherine Thimmesh, The Sky's the Limit (2002).
The Magic School Bus Series
The Scientists in the Field Series
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