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Author
Series
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
In this classic of literary nonfiction, Annie Dillard takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and
...Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
So much of nature functions faster or slower, lighter or darker, larger or smaller than can be appreciated with the naked eye. The subtle nuances and hidden majesty of the natural world will now be revealed by using all of modern technology to manipulate time, light, and size in order to analyze the speed of life.
8) Canoe days
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Language
English
Description
A canoe ride on a northern lake during a summer day reveals the quiet beauty and wonder of nature in and around the peaceful water.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
A mother explains to her son that in nature, an end is also a beginning as day gives way to night, winter ends and spring begins, and, after it stops falling, rain makes clouds for other storms.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons -- from a crow spied on New Year's Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring -- what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket.
14) Wonder walkers
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--
15) Old Turtle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
Discover how Old Turtle brings peace to all the beings of the world in this classic fable of respect for the earth and the diverse human family. Sing along with author/composer Douglas Wood and his friends as they celebrate Old Turtle's message.
16) The lost spells
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted readers with its poetry and illustrations of the natural world. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of everyday nature, conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws, and more in poems and illustrations that flow between the pages and into readers' minds. Robert Macfarlane's spell-poems...
Author
Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world--dandelion, otter, bramble and acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer...
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Language
English
Description
"From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories--stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. For centuries, this richness has been widely overlooked by readers of environmental literature. Including work from more than thirty contributors of widely diverse backgrounds, this...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring...