Science Literature Links
Science tasks in Scientific Inquiry for the 21st Century are linked to children's literature and various science kit activities. We have broken these down into the science content areas listed below:
| PROPERTIES OF MATTER (5 SENSES AND OBSERVATIONS) | |
|---|---|
| The Wonders of Me from A to Z | by Bobbie Kalman |
| The Story of Jumping Mouse | by John Steptoe |
| Owl Moon | by Jane Yolen |
| Time of Wonder | by Robert McCloskey |
| A Tree is Nice | by Janice May Udry |
| Everybody Needs a Rock | by Byrd Baylor |
| The Sky was Blue | by Charlotte Zolotow |
| PROPERTIES OF MATTER (SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, GASES) | |
| About Water | by Laurent deBrunhoff |
| Gorky Rises | by William Steig |
| Splash! All About Baths | by Susan K. Buxbaum |
| Very Last First Time | by Jan Andrews |
| Water's Way | by Lisa W. Peters |
| Supersuits | by Vicki Cobb |
| There's a Hippo in My Bath | by Kyoko Matsuoka |
| Floating and Sinking | by Franklyn Branley |
| Water is Wet | by Sally Cartwright |
| Liquids | by William Lumsden |
| Who Sank the Boat | by Pamela Allen |
| Hot Air Henry | by Mary Calhoun |
| A Chilling Story: How Things Cool Down | by Eve and Albert Stwertka |
| Bartholomew and the Oobleck | by Dr.Suess |
| Horrible Harry and the Green Slime | by Suzy Kline |
| Salt | by Harve Zemach |
| Two Bad Ants | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Legend of the Bluebonnet | by Tomie DePaola |
| Bubbles | by Bernie Zubrowski |
| The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee | by Lucretia Hale |
| How to Think Like a Scientist | by Stephen P. Kramer |
| Stories to Solve: Folk Tales from Around the World | by George Shannon |
| Chemical Changes | by Kathryn Whyman |
| Strega Nona's Magic Lessons | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Chemist Who Lost His Head | by Vivian Grey |
| Mystery Day | by Harriet Ziefert |
| Susannah and the Poison Green Halloween | by Patricia Elmore |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | by Jean Merrill |
| Top Secret | by John R. Gardiner |
| The Monster Garden | by Vivien Alcock |
- Structure and Function
- Reproduction and Heredity
- Regulation and Behavior
- Population and Ecosystems
- Evolution, Diversity, Adaptations
| STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION | |
|---|---|
| Curious Clownfish | by Eric Maddern |
| Dinosaurs are Different | by Aliki |
| Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | by Byron Barton |
| Eric Carle's Animals Compiled | by Laura Whipple |
| The Busy Day | by Eric Carle |
| A House for a Hermit Crab | by Eric Carle |
| Lizard in the Sun | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Mixed-Up Chameleon | by Eric Carle |
| Mousekin's Golden House | by Edna Miller |
| Pretend You're a Cat | by Jean Marzollo |
| Swimmy | by Leo Lionni |
| My Father Doesn't Know About the Woods and Me | by Dennis Haseley |
| Nicky the Nature Detective | by Ulf Svedberg |
| The Snail's Spell | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Flower Alphabet Book | by Jerry Pallotta |
| Chameleon Was a Spy | by Diane R. Massie |
| How to Hide a Butterfly an Other Insects | by Ruth Heller |
| Who's Hiding Here? | by Yoshi |
| Pinkie Leaves Home | by Peter O'Donnell |
| When Woods Hum | by Joanne Ryder |
| Hello Tree | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| REPRODUCTION AND HEREDITY | |
|---|---|
| Wild Mouse | by Irene Brady |
| Where Butterflies Grow | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Very Hungry Catepillar | by Eric Carle |
| The Legend of Bluebonnet | by Tomie dePaola |
| The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush | by Tomie dePaola |
| Who do You Think You Are?: Digging for Your Family Roots | by Suzanne Hilton |
| Whisper from the Woods | by Victoria Wirth |
| Stellaluna | by Janell Cannon |
| Chickens Aren't the Only Ones | by Ruth Heller |
| The Tiny Seed | by Eric Carle |
| REGULATIONS AND BEHAVIOR | |
|---|---|
| Linnea's Windowsill Garden | by Christina Bjork |
| The Rose in My Garden | by Arnold Lobel |
| Mysteries and Marvels of Plant Life | by Barbara Cork |
| Bean and Plant | by Christine Back |
| The Tiny Seed | by Eric Carle |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| The Carrot Seed | by Ruth Krauss |
| The Plant Sitter | by Gene Zion |
| Pumpkin Pumpkin | by Jeanne Titherington |
| The Caribou Alphabet | by Mary Beth Owens |
| Charlotte's Web | by E.B. White |
| Fireflies in the Night | by Judy Hawes |
| The Frog Alphabet Book | by Jerry Pallotta |
| The Girl Who Loved Caterpillers | by Nancy W. Parker |
| Gay-Neck; The Story of a Pigeon | by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| Living with Dinosaurs | by Patricia Lauber |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | by Robert C. O'Brien |
| My Side of the Mountain | by Jean C. George |
| Never Cry Wolf | by Farley Mowat |
| Nicky the Nature Detective | by Ulf Svedberg |
| On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon | by Barbara Brenner |
| Owl Moon | by Jane Yolen |
| Lizard in the Sun | by Joanne Ryder |
| Chipmunk Song | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Very Hungry Caterpiller | by Eric Carle |
| POPULATIONS AND ECOSYSTEMS | |
|---|---|
| Mathew's Meadow | by Corine Bliss |
| Nature Spy | by Shelley Rotner |
| A House is a House for Me | by Mary Ann Hoberman |
| Keep Looking | by Millicent Selsam |
| The Butterfly Hunt | by Yoshi |
| How to Hide a Butterfly and Other Insects | by Ruth Heller |
| Where Does the Butterfly Go When it Rains? | by May Garelick |
| Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna | by Nancy W. Carlstrom |
| A Song for the Seasons | by Jamake Highwater |
| Song for the Ancient Forest | by Nancy Luenn |
| The Great Kapok Tree | by Lynne Cherry |
| Look! | by April Wilson |
| Somewhere Today | by Bert Kitchen |
| The Gift of the Tree | by Alvin Tresselt |
| Farewell to Shady Glade | by Bill Peet |
| At Home in it's Habitat | by Phyllis Busch |
| The Great Kapok Tree | by Lynne Cherry |
| One Small Square... | by Donald Silver |
| And So They Build | by Bert Kitchen |
| The Giving Tree | by Shel Silverstein |
| A Tree is Nice | by Janice Udry |
| The Forgotten Forest | by Laurence Anholt |
| Forests | by David Lambert |
| Keep Looking | by Millicent Selsam |
| The Last Free Bird | by Harris Stone |
| The Rock | by Peter Parnall |
| Heron Street | by Ann Turner |
| Just a Dream | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The River | by David Bellamy |
| Disappearing Wetlands | by Helen J. Challand |
| Water, Water, Everywhere | by Melvin and Gilda Berger |
| Our Dirty Water | by Sarah M. Elliot |
| A Sea of Troubles | by J.J. McCoy |
| A Clean Brook | by Margaret Farrington |
| Chattanooga Sludge | by Molly Bang |
| The Lorax | by Dr. Suess |
| Michael Bird-Boy | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Wump World | by Bill Peet |
| The King's Fountain | by Lloyd Alexander |
| The Talking Earth | by Jean C. George |
| And Still the Turtle Watched | by Sheila MacGill-Callahan |
| EVOLUTION, DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS | |
|---|---|
| Once There Was a Tree | by Natalie Romanova |
| One Day in the Prairie | by Jean C. George |
| One Day in the Tropical Rainforest | by Jean C. George |
| Out in the Night | by Karen Liptak |
| The Roadside | by David Bellamy |
| Will We Miss Them? | by Alexandra Wright |
| The Lamb and the Butterfly | by Arnold Sundgaard |
| The Song in Walnut Grove | by David Kherdian |
| Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City | by Barbara Bash |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | by Richard and Florence Atwater |
| Drylongso | by Virginia Hamilon |
| An Oak Tree Dies and a Journey Begins | by Louanne Norris |
| The Empty Lot | by Dale H.Fife |
| The Fall of Freddie Leaf | by Leo Buscaglia |
| Whisper from the Woods | by Victoria Wirth |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| Go Fish | by Mary Stolz |
| In the Night, Still Dark | by Richard Lewis |
| An Egg is an Egg | by Nicki Weiss |
| EARTH'S STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS | |
|---|---|
| The Weather Sky | by Bruce McMillan |
| A Rainy Day | by Sandra Markle |
| What Will the Weather Be | by Linda DeWitt |
| Thunder Cake | by Patricia Polacco |
| Raintalk | by Mary Serfozo |
| Katy and the Big Snow | by Virginia Lee Burton |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | by Judy and Ron Barret |
| Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean | by Arthur Dorros |
| The Pebble in my Pocket | by Meredith Hooper |
| The Big Rock | by Bruce Hiscock |
| The Amazing Dirt Book | by Paulette Bourgeois |
| Our Patchwork Planet | by Helen Sattler |
| Miss Rumphius | by Barbara Cooper |
| Sunflower Island | |
| Listen to the Rain | by Bill Martin Jr. |
| The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks | by Joanna Cole |
| The Watching Game | by Louise Borden |
| Water's Way | by Lisa W. Peters |
| Why the Tides Ebb and Flow | by Joan C. Bowden |
| When the Tide is Low | by Sheila Cole |
| A Year at Maple Hill Farm | by Alice and Martin Provensen |
| Hill of Fire | by Thomas P. Lewis |
| Time of Wonder | by Robert McCloskey |
| The Water's Journey | by Eleonore Schmid |
| The Stream | by Naomi Russel |
| EARTH'S HISTORY | |
|---|---|
| Mitzi and Fredrick the Great | by Barbara Williams |
| Motel of Mysteries | by David Macauley |
| My Backyard History Book | by David Weitzman |
| Who Put the Cannon in the Courthouse Square? | by Kay Cooper |
| If You are a Hunter of Fossils | by Byrd Baylor |
| Nate's Treasure | by David Spohn |
| New Providence: A Changing Cityscape | by Renata Von Tscharmer |
| How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World | by Faith McNulty |
| Under Your Feet | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth | by Joanna Cole |
| The Rock | by Peter Parnall |
| When Clay Sings | by Byrd Baylor |
| Skara Brae: The Story of a Prehistoric Village | by Olivier Dunrea |
| A Pebble in my Pocket | by Meredith Hooper |
| The Big Rock | by Bruce Hiscock |
| Our Patchwork Planet | by Helen Sattler |
| How Mountains are Made | by Kathleen Zoehfeld |
| Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking | by M. Schleir |
| Dinosaur Dream | by Dennis Nolan |
| Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up | by John R. Horner |
| The Last Dinosaur | by Jim Murphy |
| The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard | by B.G. Hennessy |
| Fossils Tell of Long Ago | by Aliki |
| SOLAR SYSTEM | |
|---|---|
| Why Do We Have Different Seasons? | by Issac Asimov |
| Seasons | by Melvin Berger |
| Sunshine Makes the Seasons | by Franklyn Branley |
| The Circle of Seasons | by Gerda Muller |
| What the Moon is Like | by Franklyn Branely |
| The Moon | by Seymour Simon |
| Boat Ride with Lillian Two Blossom | by Patricia Polacco |
| Follow the Drinking Gourd | by Jeanette Winter |
| Grandfather Twilight | by Barbara Berger |
| How Many Stars in the Sky? | by Lenny Hort |
| Many Moons | by James Thurber |
| Moon-Watch Summer | by Lenore Blegvad |
| Night on Neighborhood Street | by David Weisner |
| The Night of the Stars | by Douglas Gutierrez and Maria F. Oliver |
| Sing Down the Moon | by Scott O'Dell |
| The Planet of Junior Brown | by Virginia Hamilton |
| Sky Songs | by Myra Cohn Livingston |
| The Truth About the Moon | by Clayton Bess |
| Why the Sky is Far Away | by Mary-Joan Gerson |
| Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky | by Elphinstone Dayrell |
| NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | |
|---|---|
| The Gift of the Tree | by Alvin Tresselt |
| Heron Street | by Ann Turner |
| Just a Dream | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The River | by David Bellamy |
| Disappearing Wetlands | by Helen J. Challand |
| Water, Water, Everywhere | by Melvin and Gilda Berger |
| Our Dirty Water | by Sarah M.Elliot |
| A Sea of Troubles | by J.J. McCoy |
| The Clean Brook | by Margaret Farrington |
| Chattanooga Sludge | by Molly Bang |
| The Lorax | by Dr. Suess |
| Michael Bird-Boy | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Wump World | by Bill Peet |
| The King's Fountain | by Lloyd Alexander |
| The Endless Pavement | by Jacqueline Jackson |
| The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest | by Lynne Cherry |
| Who Really Killed Cock Robin? | by Jean C. George |
| A River Ran Wild | by Lynne Cherry |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The Clean Brook | by Margeret Farrington Bartlett |
| PROPERTIES OF MATTER (5 SENSES AND OBSERVATIONS) | |
|---|---|
| The Wonders of Me from A to Z | by Bobbie Kalman |
| The Story of Jumping Mouse | by John Steptoe |
| Owl Moon | by Jane Yolen |
| Time of Wonder | by Robert McCloskey |
| A Tree is Nice | by Janice May Udry |
| Everybody Needs a Rock | by Byrd Baylor |
| The Sky was Blue | by Charlotte Zolotow |
| PROPERTIES OF MATTER (SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, GASES) | |
| About Water | by Laurent deBrunhoff |
| Gorky Rises | by William Steig |
| Splash! All About Baths | by Susan K. Buxbaum |
| Very Last First Time | by Jan Andrews |
| Water's Way | by Lisa W. Peters |
| Supersuits | by Vicki Cobb |
| There's a Hippo in My Bath | by Kyoko Matsuoka |
| Floating and Sinking | by Franklyn Branley |
| Water is Wet | by Sally Cartwright |
| Liquids | by William Lumsden |
| Who Sank the Boat | by Pamela Allen |
| Hot Air Henry | by Mary Calhoun |
| A Chilling Story: How Things Cool Down | by Eve and Albert Stwertka |
| Bartholomew and the Oobleck | by Dr.Suess |
| Horrible Harry and the Green Slime | by Suzy Kline |
| Salt | by Harve Zemach |
| Two Bad Ants | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Legend of the Bluebonnet | by Tomie DePaola |
| Bubbles | by Bernie Zubrowski |
| The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee | by Lucretia Hale |
| How to Think Like a Scientist | by Stephen P. Kramer |
| Stories to Solve: Folk Tales from Around the World | by George Shannon |
| Chemical Changes | by Kathryn Whyman |
| Strega Nona's Magic Lessons | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Chemist Who Lost His Head | by Vivian Grey |
| Mystery Day | by Harriet Ziefert |
| Susannah and the Poison Green Halloween | by Patricia Elmore |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | by Jean Merrill |
| Top Secret | by John R. Gardiner |
| The Monster Garden | by Vivien Alcock |
| MOTION AND FORCES | |
|---|---|
| Machines at Work | by Byron Barton |
| Force: The Power Behind the Movement | by Lionel Bender |
| The Way Things Work | by David Macauley |
| Wheels at Work | by Bernie Zubrowski |
| Bouncing and Rolling | by Terry Jennings |
| Choo Choo | by Virginia Lee Burton |
| Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel | by Virginia Lee Burton |
| Wheels Away | by Dayle Anne Dodds |
| The Lazy Dog | by John Hamberger |
| Making Things Move | by Neil Ardley |
| Cars and How They Go | by Joanna Cole |
| Fun on Wheels | by Joanna Cole |
| Adventures with a Ball | by Harry Milgram |
| Force and the Power | by Eric Laithwaite |
| Forces and Motion | by Simonde Binna |
| The Science Book of Machines | by Neil Ardley |
| Raceways: Having Fun with Balls and Tracks | by Bernie Zubrowski |
| The Science Book of Motion | by Neil Ardley |
| Simple Science Experiments with Marbles | by Eiji Orii and Masako |
| How Things Work | by National Geographic Society |
| TRANSFERAL AND TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY | |
|---|---|
| Amazing Magnets | by David Adler |
| Blinkers and Buzzers: Building and Experimenting with Electricity and Magnetism | by Bernie Zubrowski |
| Where Does Electricity Come From? | by Susan Mayes |
| Quick Anni, Give me a Catchy Line: Samual Morse | by Robert Quackenbush |
| Generating Electricity | by Gregory Vogt |
| Coils, Magnets, and Rings: Michael Farady's World | by Nancy Veglahn |
| Danny Dunn and the Swamp Monster | by Jay Williams |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | by Beverly Cleary |
| Einstein Anderson Lights up the Sky | by Seymour Simon |
| Einstein Anderson Shocks his Friends | by Seymour Simon |
| Everything Happens to Stuey | |
| Introduction to Electronics | by Pam Beasart |
| Discovering Electricity | by Natalie Lunis |
| The Light Bulb | by Sharon Cosner |
| What's the Big Idea | by Jean Fritz |
| The Compass | by Paula Hogan |
| Electricity and Magnetism | by Kathryn Whyman |
| Amazing Magnets | by David Adler |
| Experiments with Magnets | by Helen Challand |
| Magnets | by Terry Jennings |
| Electricity and Magnets | by Barbara Taylo |
| Einstein Anderson Sees Through the Invisible Man | by Seymour Simon |
| Fireflies in the Night | by Judy Hawes |
| Keep Looking | by Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt |
| The Snowy Day | by Ezra Jack Keats |
| Ox-Cart Man | by Donald Hall |
- Structure and Function
- Reproduction and Heredity
- Regulation and Behavior
- Population and Ecosystems
- Evolution, Diversity, Adaptations
| STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION | |
|---|---|
| Curious Clownfish | by Eric Maddern |
| Dinosaurs are Different | by Aliki |
| Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | by Byron Barton |
| Eric Carle's Animals Compiled | by Laura Whipple |
| The Busy Day | by Eric Carle |
| A House for a Hermit Crab | by Eric Carle |
| Lizard in the Sun | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Mixed-Up Chameleon | by Eric Carle |
| Mousekin's Golden House | by Edna Miller |
| Pretend You're a Cat | by Jean Marzollo |
| Swimmy | by Leo Lionni |
| My Father Doesn't Know About the Woods and Me | by Dennis Haseley |
| Nicky the Nature Detective | by Ulf Svedberg |
| The Snail's Spell | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Flower Alphabet Book | by Jerry Pallotta |
| Chameleon Was a Spy | by Diane R. Massie |
| How to Hide a Butterfly an Other Insects | by Ruth Heller |
| Who's Hiding Here? | by Yoshi |
| Pinkie Leaves Home | by Peter O'Donnell |
| When Woods Hum | by Joanne Ryder |
| Hello Tree | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| REPRODUCTION AND HEREDITY | |
|---|---|
| Wild Mouse | by Irene Brady |
| Where Butterflies Grow | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Very Hungry Catepillar | by Eric Carle |
| The Legend of Bluebonnet | by Tomie dePaola |
| The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush | by Tomie dePaola |
| Who do You Think You Are?: Digging for Your Family Roots | by Suzanne Hilton |
| Whisper from the Woods | by Victoria Wirth |
| Stellaluna | by Janell Cannon |
| Chickens Aren't the Only Ones | by Ruth Heller |
| The Tiny Seed | by Eric Carle |
| REGULATIONS AND BEHAVIOR | |
|---|---|
| Linnea's Windowsill Garden | by Christina Bjork |
| The Rose in My Garden | by Arnold Lobel |
| Mysteries and Marvels of Plant Life | by Barbara Cork |
| Bean and Plant | by Christine Back |
| The Tiny Seed | by Eric Carle |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| The Carrot Seed | by Ruth Krauss |
| The Plant Sitter | by Gene Zion |
| Pumpkin Pumpkin | by Jeanne Titherington |
| The Caribou Alphabet | by Mary Beth Owens |
| Charlotte's Web | by E.B. White |
| Fireflies in the Night | by Judy Hawes |
| The Frog Alphabet Book | by Jerry Pallotta |
| The Girl Who Loved Caterpillers | by Nancy W. Parker |
| Gay-Neck; The Story of a Pigeon | by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| Living with Dinosaurs | by Patricia Lauber |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | by Robert C. O'Brien |
| My Side of the Mountain | by Jean C. George |
| Never Cry Wolf | by Farley Mowat |
| Nicky the Nature Detective | by Ulf Svedberg |
| On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon | by Barbara Brenner |
| Owl Moon | by Jane Yolen |
| Lizard in the Sun | by Joanne Ryder |
| Chipmunk Song | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Very Hungry Caterpiller | by Eric Carle |
| POPULATIONS AND ECOSYSTEMS | |
|---|---|
| Mathew's Meadow | by Corine Bliss |
| Nature Spy | by Shelley Rotner |
| A House is a House for Me | by Mary Ann Hoberman |
| Keep Looking | by Millicent Selsam |
| The Butterfly Hunt | by Yoshi |
| How to Hide a Butterfly and Other Insects | by Ruth Heller |
| Where Does the Butterfly Go When it Rains? | by May Garelick |
| Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna | by Nancy W. Carlstrom |
| A Song for the Seasons | by Jamake Highwater |
| Song for the Ancient Forest | by Nancy Luenn |
| The Great Kapok Tree | by Lynne Cherry |
| Look! | by April Wilson |
| Somewhere Today | by Bert Kitchen |
| The Gift of the Tree | by Alvin Tresselt |
| Farewell to Shady Glade | by Bill Peet |
| At Home in it's Habitat | by Phyllis Busch |
| The Great Kapok Tree | by Lynne Cherry |
| One Small Square... | by Donald Silver |
| And So They Build | by Bert Kitchen |
| The Giving Tree | by Shel Silverstein |
| A Tree is Nice | by Janice Udry |
| The Forgotten Forest | by Laurence Anholt |
| Forests | by David Lambert |
| Keep Looking | by Millicent Selsam |
| The Last Free Bird | by Harris Stone |
| The Rock | by Peter Parnall |
| Heron Street | by Ann Turner |
| Just a Dream | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The River | by David Bellamy |
| Disappearing Wetlands | by Helen J. Challand |
| Water, Water, Everywhere | by Melvin and Gilda Berger |
| Our Dirty Water | by Sarah M. Elliot |
| A Sea of Troubles | by J.J. McCoy |
| A Clean Brook | by Margaret Farrington |
| Chattanooga Sludge | by Molly Bang |
| The Lorax | by Dr. Suess |
| Michael Bird-Boy | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Wump World | by Bill Peet |
| The King's Fountain | by Lloyd Alexander |
| The Talking Earth | by Jean C. George |
| And Still the Turtle Watched | by Sheila MacGill-Callahan |
| EVOLUTION, DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATIONS | |
|---|---|
| Once There Was a Tree | by Natalie Romanova |
| One Day in the Prairie | by Jean C. George |
| One Day in the Tropical Rainforest | by Jean C. George |
| Out in the Night | by Karen Liptak |
| The Roadside | by David Bellamy |
| Will We Miss Them? | by Alexandra Wright |
| The Lamb and the Butterfly | by Arnold Sundgaard |
| The Song in Walnut Grove | by David Kherdian |
| Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City | by Barbara Bash |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | by Richard and Florence Atwater |
| Drylongso | by Virginia Hamilon |
| An Oak Tree Dies and a Journey Begins | by Louanne Norris |
| The Empty Lot | by Dale H.Fife |
| The Fall of Freddie Leaf | by Leo Buscaglia |
| Whisper from the Woods | by Victoria Wirth |
| The Reason for a Flower | by Ruth Heller |
| Go Fish | by Mary Stolz |
| In the Night, Still Dark | by Richard Lewis |
| An Egg is an Egg | by Nicki Weiss |
| EARTH'S STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS | |
|---|---|
| The Weather Sky | by Bruce McMillan |
| A Rainy Day | by Sandra Markle |
| What Will the Weather Be | by Linda DeWitt |
| Thunder Cake | by Patricia Polacco |
| Raintalk | by Mary Serfozo |
| Katy and the Big Snow | by Virginia Lee Burton |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | by Judy and Ron Barret |
| Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean | by Arthur Dorros |
| The Pebble in my Pocket | by Meredith Hooper |
| The Big Rock | by Bruce Hiscock |
| The Amazing Dirt Book | by Paulette Bourgeois |
| Our Patchwork Planet | by Helen Sattler |
| Miss Rumphius | by Barbara Cooper |
| Sunflower Island | |
| Listen to the Rain | by Bill Martin Jr. |
| The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks | by Joanna Cole |
| The Watching Game | by Louise Borden |
| Water's Way | by Lisa W. Peters |
| Why the Tides Ebb and Flow | by Joan C. Bowden |
| When the Tide is Low | by Sheila Cole |
| A Year at Maple Hill Farm | by Alice and Martin Provensen |
| Hill of Fire | by Thomas P. Lewis |
| Time of Wonder | by Robert McCloskey |
| The Water's Journey | by Eleonore Schmid |
| The Stream | by Naomi Russel |
| EARTH'S HISTORY | |
|---|---|
| Mitzi and Fredrick the Great | by Barbara Williams |
| Motel of Mysteries | by David Macauley |
| My Backyard History Book | by David Weitzman |
| Who Put the Cannon in the Courthouse Square? | by Kay Cooper |
| If You are a Hunter of Fossils | by Byrd Baylor |
| Nate's Treasure | by David Spohn |
| New Providence: A Changing Cityscape | by Renata Von Tscharmer |
| How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World | by Faith McNulty |
| Under Your Feet | by Joanne Ryder |
| The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth | by Joanna Cole |
| The Rock | by Peter Parnall |
| When Clay Sings | by Byrd Baylor |
| Skara Brae: The Story of a Prehistoric Village | by Olivier Dunrea |
| A Pebble in my Pocket | by Meredith Hooper |
| The Big Rock | by Bruce Hiscock |
| Our Patchwork Planet | by Helen Sattler |
| How Mountains are Made | by Kathleen Zoehfeld |
| Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking | by M. Schleir |
| Dinosaur Dream | by Dennis Nolan |
| Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up | by John R. Horner |
| The Last Dinosaur | by Jim Murphy |
| The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard | by B.G. Hennessy |
| Fossils Tell of Long Ago | by Aliki |
| SOLAR SYSTEM | |
|---|---|
| Why Do We Have Different Seasons? | by Issac Asimov |
| Seasons | by Melvin Berger |
| Sunshine Makes the Seasons | by Franklyn Branley |
| The Circle of Seasons | by Gerda Muller |
| What the Moon is Like | by Franklyn Branely |
| The Moon | by Seymour Simon |
| Boat Ride with Lillian Two Blossom | by Patricia Polacco |
| Follow the Drinking Gourd | by Jeanette Winter |
| Grandfather Twilight | by Barbara Berger |
| How Many Stars in the Sky? | by Lenny Hort |
| Many Moons | by James Thurber |
| Moon-Watch Summer | by Lenore Blegvad |
| Night on Neighborhood Street | by David Weisner |
| The Night of the Stars | by Douglas Gutierrez and Maria F. Oliver |
| Sing Down the Moon | by Scott O'Dell |
| The Planet of Junior Brown | by Virginia Hamilton |
| Sky Songs | by Myra Cohn Livingston |
| The Truth About the Moon | by Clayton Bess |
| Why the Sky is Far Away | by Mary-Joan Gerson |
| Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky | by Elphinstone Dayrell |
| NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | |
|---|---|
| The Gift of the Tree | by Alvin Tresselt |
| Heron Street | by Ann Turner |
| Just a Dream | by Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The River | by David Bellamy |
| Disappearing Wetlands | by Helen J. Challand |
| Water, Water, Everywhere | by Melvin and Gilda Berger |
| Our Dirty Water | by Sarah M.Elliot |
| A Sea of Troubles | by J.J. McCoy |
| The Clean Brook | by Margaret Farrington |
| Chattanooga Sludge | by Molly Bang |
| The Lorax | by Dr. Suess |
| Michael Bird-Boy | by Tomie DePaola |
| The Wump World | by Bill Peet |
| The King's Fountain | by Lloyd Alexander |
| The Endless Pavement | by Jacqueline Jackson |
| The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest | by Lynne Cherry |
| Who Really Killed Cock Robin? | by Jean C. George |
| A River Ran Wild | by Lynne Cherry |
| The Lost Lake | by Allan Say |
| The Clean Brook | by Margeret Farrington Bartlett |
| DESIGN TECHNOLOGY | |
|---|---|
| Better Mousetraps: Product Improvements that Led to Success | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Egg Drop Blues | by Jacqueline Turner Banks |
| Machines and How They Work | by David Burnie |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | by Jean Merrill |
| Freckle Juice | by Judy Blume |
| The Great Brain | by John D. Fitzgerald |
| Invention Book | by Steven Caney |
| Mistakes that Worked | by Charlotte Foltz Jones |
| The Rejects: People and Products that Outsmarted the Experienced | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Stories Behind Everyday Things | by Jane Polley |
| The Way Things Work | by David Macaulay |
| Inventor's Workshop | by Alan J. McCormick |
| Science from Toys | by Don Radford |
| Science, Models, and Toys | by Don Radford |
| Robot Named Chip | by Phillippe Dupasquier |
| Bored-Nothing to do | by Peter Spier |
| Jesse Builds a Road | by Lawrence Pringle |
| The Last Hundred Years: Household Technology | by Daniel Cohen |
| The Invention of Ordinary Things | by Donald Wulffson |
| An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer | by Edward DeBono |
| Weird and Wacky Inventions | by Autumn Stanley |
| Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions | by Jim Haskins |
| Galimoto | by Karen L. Williams |
| DESIGN TECHNOLOGY | |
|---|---|
| Better Mousetraps: Product Improvements that Led to Success | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Egg Drop Blues | by Jacqueline Turner Banks |
| Machines and How They Work | by David Burnie |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | by Jean Merrill |
| Freckle Juice | by Judy Blume |
| The Great Brain | by John D. Fitzgerald |
| Invention Book | by Steven Caney |
| Mistakes that Worked | by Charlotte Foltz Jones |
| The Rejects: People and Products that Outsmarted the Experienced | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Stories Behind Everyday Things | by Jane Polley |
| The Way Things Work | by David Macaulay |
| Inventor's Workshop | by Alan J. McCormick |
| Science from Toys | by Don Radford |
| Science, Models, and Toys | by Don Radford |
| Robot Named Chip | by Phillippe Dupasquier |
| Bored-Nothing to do | by Peter Spier |
| Jesse Builds a Road | by Lawrence Pringle |
| The Last Hundred Years: Household Technology | by Daniel Cohen |
| The Invention of Ordinary Things | by Donald Wulffson |
| An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer | by Edward DeBono |
| Weird and Wacky Inventions | by Autumn Stanley |
| Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions | by Jim Haskins |
| Galimoto | by Karen L. Williams |
| DESIGN TECHNOLOGY | |
|---|---|
| Better Mousetraps: Product Improvements that Led to Success | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Egg Drop Blues | by Jacqueline Turner Banks |
| Machines and How They Work | by David Burnie |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | by Jean Merrill |
| Freckle Juice | by Judy Blume |
| The Great Brain | by John D. Fitzgerald |
| Invention Book | by Steven Caney |
| Mistakes that Worked | by Charlotte Foltz Jones |
| The Rejects: People and Products that Outsmarted the Experienced | by Nathan Aaseng |
| Stories Behind Everyday Things | by Jane Polley |
| The Way Things Work | by David Macaulay |
| Inventor's Workshop | by Alan J. McCormick |
| Science from Toys | by Don Radford |
| Science, Models, and Toys | by Don Radford |
| Robot Named Chip | by Phillippe Dupasquier |
| Bored-Nothing to do | by Peter Spier |
| Jesse Builds a Road | by Lawrence Pringle |
| The Last Hundred Years: Household Technology | by Daniel Cohen |
| The Invention of Ordinary Things | by Donald Wulffson |
| An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer | by Edward DeBono |
| Weird and Wacky Inventions | by Autumn Stanley |
| Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions | by Jim Haskins |
| Galimoto | by Karen L. Williams |