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Arthur Turns Green

Marc Brown - Little, Brown
Format: Paperback

Celebrated author/illustrator Marc Brown revisits his beloved bestselling character in the first new Arthur picture book in almost ten years! Arthur comes home from school and begins sneaking around the house, taking notes and talking about a Big Green Machine. D.W. is suspicious of her brother's...
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Rocket Says Clean Up!

Nathan Bryon - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

.Rocket, is off to the islands to visit her grandparents. Her family loves nothing better than to beach comb and surf together...but the beach is clogged with trash! When she finds a turtle tangled in a net, Rocket decides that something must be done! Like a mini Greta Thunberg, our young...
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Charlie and Lola: We Are Extremely Very Good Recyclers

Lauren Child - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

After Charlie convinces Lola to recycle her old toys instead of throwing them away, Lola discovers a recycling competition. If she can recycle one hundred plastic, metal, and paper items, she can get her very own real live tree to plant. But she only has two weeks, so Lola decides to ask her classmates...
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One Little Bag: An Amazing Journey

Cole, Henry - SCHOLASTIC

From a tall tree growing in the forest--to the checkout counter at the grocery store--one little bag finds its way into the hands of a young boy on the eve of his first day of school. And so begins an incredible journey of one little bag that is usedand reusedand reused again. In...
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Curious George A Home for Honeybees

H. A. Rey - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Paperback

In this springtime adventure based on the Emmy Award-winning PBS TV show, George and Steve find themselves in a sticky situation when they accidentally eat all of Betsy's delicious honeycomb for her Earth Day presentation about bees. Now they need to find a way to replace the honeycomb...
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Curious George Plants A Tree

H. A. Rey - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

George loves to go to the science museum. So, when he finds out that the museum is planning a Green Day dedicated to recycling and planting trees, and George is curious and wants to help out! But little monkeys eager to help can sometimes become little monkeys getting into trouble. When...
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Curious George: Trash into Treasure

H. A. Rey - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In this Green Light Reader based on Curious George, the Emmy Award-winning PBS TV show, Curious George is part of a team challenge to clean up the city streets -- until he finds hidden treasures along the way! George is part of a team challenge to help clean up the city on Pretty City Day....
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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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The Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean

Deborah Diesen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Mr. Fish and his friends have noticed something strange in their ocean -- a big, big MESS! How did it get there? What can they do about it? The closer they look, the more they see where the mess came from . . . and they'll have to work together to get rid of it. This newest jacketed...
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Think Green!

Disney Book Group - Disney Press; Nov edition
Format: Print book

Mayor Rosa has asked Manny to help get the town ready for its annual Earth Day celebration held each year on April 22nd. As the team prepares for the big event, Manny and the citizens of Sheet Rock Hills teach the tools about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling!Manny features...
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Dora Celebrates Earth Day!: Little Green Nickelodeon

Emily Sollinger - Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Format: Print book

Dora explores the ways we can all make a difference and help save the planet by doing simple things at home.Perfect for teaching preschoolers about the environment and what they can do to help protect the planet, This book will be printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper with...
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Pick Up the Park (My Little Planet)

Charles Ghigna - Picture Window Books
Format: Library Binding

In this delightfun poem, children learn to do their part and help keep the park clean.
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Recycling Is Fun (My Little Planet)

Charles Ghigna - Picture Window Books
Format: Library Binding

Children learn that sorting recycling and giving new life to old things is not only good for the environment. It is a whole lot of fun, too!
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The Trouble with Dragons

Debi Gliori - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

The trouble with dragons is . . . everything! From chopping down forests to wasting food, the dragons are making an absolute mess of the planet. Their careless ways could spell the end for Earth—unless they can find a way to turn things around. From the beloved author and illustrator...
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Emeraldalicious

Victoria Kann - HarperCollins; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover

When Pinkalicious and Peter decide to visit their favorite park, they find that it's no longer their favorite place - the park is now filled with stinky trash! Pinkalicious has an idea and makes an extra-special wand out of a stick and some flowers. Now whenever Pinkalicious makes a wish,...
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Stuff!: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Steven Kroll - Two Lions
Format: Hardcover

Pinch is a packrat. He collects lots of stuff. When his friends decide to hold a tag sale, Pinch is horrified. The last thing he wants to do is recycle his things. But then he realizes that he can make money at a tag saleenough money to buy more stuff!How Pinch changes and finds a way to beautify...
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Katie Saves the Earth

Fran Manushkin - Picture Window Books
Format: Paperback

It is almost Earth Day, and Katie and her friends all want to keep the Earth green. To do her part, Katie organizes a yard sale.
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It's Earth Day!

Mercer Mayer - Harperfestival
Format: Print book

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After Little Critter's class takes an Earth Day trip to the local recycling center, Little Critter goes home to teach his family everything he learned and to do his part to help protect the environment.
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Earth Day (Ready-to-Read. Level 1)

Margaret McNamara - Simon Spotlight; Original edition
Format: Paperback

The kids in Mrs. Connor's class are celebrating Earth Day, and everyone has lots of ideas on how to save the Earth...except Emma. Emma is worried that her ideas are not good enough. With the help of her dad and Mrs. Connor, Emma learns that her small ideas can have big results!
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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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When Santa Turned Green

Victoria Perla - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

A creative holiday story that introduces kids to environmental awareness with ways that they can make a big difference.Its November up in the North Pole. Everythings going along smoothly at Santas workshop until he discovers a leak in his roof. Santa soon learns that this little leak is connected...
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Sid the Science Kid: Earth Day Fun

Jennifer Frantz - HarperColl
Format: Paperback

Sid’s dad has bought some potting soil so he and Sid can plant a tree for Earth Day. But what exactly is in dirt? Sid and his Dirt Detective friends are going to find out!
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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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Greta and the Giants

Zoe Tucker
Format: Hardcover


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Gabby and Grandma Go Green

Monica Wellington - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When Gabby and Grandma get together, Green Day means Fun Day. From sewing their own cloth bags and buying vegetables at the Farmers Market to recycling their bottles, these two know how to have a good time while doing good things for the earth. The illustrations in Monica Wellingtons popsicle-bright...
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Big Earth, Little Me

Thom Wiley - Cartwheel Books; Ltf edition
Format: Print book

Printed with organic-soy-based ink, this book with flaps empowers young readers by teaching 10 simple, everyday ways to save the world!I can help.I can recycle.I can turn off the water.I can turn off the lights.Printed with organic-soy-based ink, this simple picture book with flaps is made...
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Earth Day, Birthday!

Maureen Wright - Two Lions
Format: Book

It's April 22, and Lion and his friends want to plant trees, recycle bottles, and have fun on Earth Day. But not Monkey. He wants to celebrate his birthday. Can he convince the other animals that it really is his birthday? Violet Kim's humorous artwork, rendered in paper, photographs,...
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Nonfiction

How Recycling Works

Geoffrey Barker - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: eBook

Paper, metal, and glass are all commonly recycled items. Most cities have a recycling program in place to make it easier for residents to contribute items to the process. But waste is still a big problem! Readers will be encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle containers and items that...
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Recycling Materials

Sue Barraclough - Sea-to-Sea
Format: Print book

This series takes a friendly-hands-on approach to environmental issues. Each book encourages children to play a part in the reducing and recycling process. Simple actitivies and ideas to raise environmental awareness have been included.
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Reducing Garbage

Sue Barraclough - Sea to Sea Publications
Format: Print book

Presents tips for how to reduce the amount of garbage thrown away, from buying items that have less packaging at the store to reusing plastic bottles and composting food waste.Title: Reducing GarbageAuthor: Barraclough, SuePublisher: Black Rabbit BooksPublication Date: 2007/08/01Number...
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Respecting Our World

Sue Barraclough - Sea-to-Sea
Format: Print book

This series encourages children to play a part in the reducing and recycling process. It is a friendly, hands-on approach to environmental issues with simple activities and ideas to raise environmental awareness.
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Reusing Things

Sue Barraclough - Sea to Sea Publications
Format: Hardcover

Discover how to make a difference to the planet by reusing things, reducing rubbish, recycling materials and respecting our world. Find out how you can play an active part, from repairing things to giving unwanted items away.
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How to Reduce your Carbon Footprint (Energy Revolution)

Amanda Bishop - Crabtree Pub Co; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

How to Reduce your Carbon Footprint explains to young readers in a simple way how they can measure their own carbon footprint, i.e. the amount of carbon emissions they produce.
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The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle (What Do You Know About? Books)

Rosa M. Curto - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback

Attractive color illustrations and easy-to-follow text combine to present factual information that younger boys and girls will readily absorb and understand. The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle is one in a series of four entertaining What Do You Know About? books, for very young...
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Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle

Erica Fyvie - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover

Think you know all about how your stuff impacts the environment? Think again!Where did all our "stuff" come from? And where does it go when were done with it? Kids find out by tracking the life cycles of typical items in a school backpack - water, food, clothing, paper, plastic,...
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100 Ways to Make the World Better!

LISA M GERRY - National Geographic Society
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding)

This uplifting book inspires the next generation to step up and make the world a better place. In keeping with the Nat Geo Kids mission, it is full of practical, positive, and powerful ideas that every kid can consider, from simple acts of kindness to creative adventures to good-for-the-planet...
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AN Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming

Al Gore - Viking Juvenile
Format: Paperback

Former Vice President Al Gore's New York Times #1 bestselling book is a daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming. Now, Viking has adapted this...
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Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis

Al Gore - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

In this follow-up to his groundbreaking AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, former Vice President Al Gore explores the causes of the current climate crisis and what we can do to help solve it. In full color, with photographs, graphics, and illustrations throughout. ,
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Composting

Dwayne Hicks - PowerKids Press
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Good gardeners know how to grow healthy plants. Great gardeners know the secret may be composting, a practice that has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years. Young gardeners will learn the basics of composing with this text, whose hands-on approach to classroom science concepts makes...
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Disney Go Green: A Family Guide to a Sustainable Lifestyle

Asthildur Jonsdottir - Edda USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Overview Go Green is a new brand of Disney books, encouraging families to lead a sustainable lifestyle. It is however not only a line of books but an opportunity for families to spend time together. It is an all around guide for families to take steps towards transforming their lives to live...
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Earth Day (Library of Holidays)

Amy Margaret - PowerKids Press
Format: Hardcover

Briefly explains what Earth Day is, how it originited, how it has changed, and when it is celebrated.
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Fun and Easy Crafting with Recycled Materials: 60 Cool Projects that Reimagine Paper Rolls, Egg Cartons, Jars and More!

Kimberly McLeod - Page Street Kids
Format: Paperback

Eco-friendly adults can help their kids make cool crafts everyone will love from materials they already have. Egg cartons become flowers, old pool noodles transform into pirate ships and toilet paper rolls become tree trunks. Kimberly McLeod, founder of the popular kids' crafting blog...
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Earth Day--Hooray!

Stuart J Murphy - HarperCollins Pub.
Format: Print book

Earth Day is on the way, and Ryan, Luke, and Carly have a plan. If they manage to collect and recycle 5,000 aluminum cans, they can make enough money to buy some beautiful flowers for nearby Gilroy Park.CAN they do it?Counting the cans gives Ryan, Luke, and Carly -- along with readers -- a lesson...
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Earth Day (Let's See Library: Holidays)

Marc Tyler Nobleman - Compass Point Books
Format: Library Binding

Discusses the history and events occurring on Earth Day, a holiday to celebrate the environment and planet Earth.
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101 Ways You Can Help Save the Planet Before You're 12!

Joanne O'Sullivan - Lark Books
Format: Paperback

It’s easy being green! Kids have enormous potential to affect change, and this enlightening book harnesses children’s natural energy, enthusiasm, optimism, and drive to make a difference in the world. Young eco-activists will feel empowered as they begin doing simple things...
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What's Sprouting in My Trash?: A Book about Composting

Esther Porter - A+ Books
Format: Hardcover(Library Binding)

You can't recycle a banana peel . . . can you?  Learn about how composting your food scraps, egg cartons, and other wastes helps make Earth a greener place.
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Earth-Friendly Crafts: Clever Ways to Reuse Everyday Items

Kathy Ross - Millbrook Press
Format: Print book

What do you do with old toys, clothes, and other stuff? Instead of throwing them away, get creative and see what crafts you can make! This book shows you how to make crafts out of old playing cards, marker caps, toy cars, neckties, hairbrushes, and more. Color photos of the finished crafts...
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Green Changes You Can Make Around Your Home

Carol Parenzan Smalley - Mitchell Lane Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Book

Can one person really make a difference? Yes! Every environmental change you and your family adopt can make the earth a cleaner and greener planet for you and the generations of people who will follow in your carbon footprints. Discover what you can do in your home to make it a better place...
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