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MADELYNE ROSENBERG - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

This simple verse story relays that kindness to the world is as easy as planting trees, tending to flowers, and being nice to animals. And being kind to others can be as simple as choosing nice words and sharing a smile. Because the world belongs to all of us!
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The Earth Gives More

Sue Fliess - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

From leaves falling and becoming fertilizer to raindrops bringing plants to life in the spring, the cycle of every season has something to enjoy. While delighting in all nature offers, we need to remember to respect and treasure the world around us. This sweet rhyming story follows the change...
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Me, Toma and the Concrete Garden

Andrew Larsen - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

Vincent is staying with his aunt Mimi for the summer while his mom recuperates from surgery. Mimi's drab city neighborhood, complete with an empty dirt lot across the street, doesn't seem too promising. But then Vincent meets Toma, a boy who lives nearby, and things start looking...
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The Curious Garden

Peter Brown - Little
Format: Hardcover

One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This...
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The EARTH Book

Todd Parr - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Rei/Pstr edition
Format: Hardcover

"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..."With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture...
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The Seekers

Hari & Deepti - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A small band of brave adventurers journey to save their village in this stunning debut picture book from papercut artists Hari & Deepti. Perfect for fans of Aaron Beckers Journey.. Mio and Nao live in the valley of Krum, above a great river that provides everything they need to survive....
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Heartbeat

Evan Turk - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This cinematic picture book from critically acclaimed author and illustrator Evan Turk follows the life of a baby whale from birth, to song, to silence, to a new song of compassion and hope for a brighter future.Two hearts, one song. A young whale and her mother sing together. Heartbeat....
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Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

Eileen Spinelli - Albert Whitman
Format: Print book

When Miss Fox shows up at school riding her bicycle, Mouse asks, "Do you have a flat tire?" "No," Miss Fox tells her students. "I am going green!" Soon everyone in the class is working to keep the earth healthy. Mouse takes shorter showers (and does her singing...
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Ants in Your Pants, Worms in Your Plants!:

Diane deGroat - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Gilbert has trouble coming up with ideas. First he couldnt think of a springtime poem, and now he needs an idea for an Earth Day project! Everyone else in Mrs. Byrds class is busy working on posters about recycling and saving water and electricity, but Gilbert wants to do something original....
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Mr. King's Machine

GenevieÌ?ve CoÌ?té - Kids Can Press
Format: Print book

When Mr. King the cat discovers that one of the pretty flowers near his home has been chewed by a caterpillar, he is NOT happy. He decides to build himself a Caterpillar-Catcher to track down the culprit who did it. VOOM! VOOM! VOOM! But as he speeds up and down the hillsides, Mr. King...
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What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?

Lauren Child

Clarice Bean needs a science project or she's in BIG trouble. Her brother Kurt just wants to save the planet. And now they're both up a tree."Sometimes I think gravity is a pity," says Clarice Bean, who is learning all about planet Earth in school. When Mrs. Wilb
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Ballyhoo Bay

Judy Sierra - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Ballyhoo Bay, where Mira Bella the artist teaches painting and sculpture to grannies and kids. Sun, sea, sand, and sky - what could be more fun? Until one gray day a billboard goes up, announcing a high-rise building and all kinds of stuff. No more sand or seashells or painting...
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These Seas Count!

Alison Formento - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Mr. Tate's class helps clean up a local beach and listens to the sea as it tells them about all the wildlife that make it their home. One whale, two giant sea turtles, three marlins. . . and more. Of course, the class discovers that "this sea counts!" These Seas Count! explores...
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If You Plant a Seed

Kadir Nelson - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Kadir Nelson, acclaimed author of Baby Bear and winner of the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Awards, presents a resonant, gently humorous story about the power of even the smallest acts and the rewards of compassion and generosity.With spare text and breathtaking...
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OK Go

Carin Berger - Greenwillow Books; 2nd Print edition
Format: Hardcover

In a world of go! go! go! go! go! it's time to stop! and find a new way.Carin Berger's playful new picture book is a jubilant celebration of going green.
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Mother Earth

Nancy Luenn

Mother Earth in all her magnificence is presented in this glorious picture book which portrays in poetic language and vibrant art how all living creatures and all elements exist as the bountiful products of a mother's generosity. Waldman's vivid and sweeping illustrations perfectl
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