Science Literature Links
Science tasks in Scientific Inquiry for the 21st Century: Built for the NGSS are linked to children's literature and various science kit activities. We have broken these down into the science content areas listed below:
- Physical Science
- Life Science
- Earth and Space Science
- Design, Technology and the Application of Science
| 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 |
- Structures and Processes
- Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
- Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Properties of Matter
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Engineering Design
| 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 |
- Physical Science
- Life Science
- Earth and Space Science
- Design, Technology and the Application of Science
| 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 |
| WAVE PROPERTIES | |
|---|---|
| Breaking Waves: Winslow Homer Paints the Sea | by Robert Burleigh |
| Waves: Physical Science for Kids | by Andy Diehn |
| Let's Ride a Wave!: Diving into the Science of Light and Sound Waves with Physics | by Chris Ferrie |
| he Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans | by Elizabeth Rusch |
- Structures and Processes
- Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
- Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
- Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |