Geography Action!
Habitats: Home Sweet Home
and Children’s Literature
This list is a starting point to include Children’s literature into Geography
Action. By no means is it a complete list; just a springboard to get started.
PB - Crinkleroot’s Guide to Animal Habitats – Jim Arnosky
PB - Magic School Bus: Hops Home; A Book About Animal Habitats – Patricia
Relf
PB - Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
PB - Curious George and the Dump Truck – Margaret & H.A. Rey
PB - Lizard Sees the World – Susan Tews
PB - On the Same Day in March – Marilyn Singer
PB - Crawdad Creek – Scott Russell Sanders
PB - Magic School Bus: Explores the World of Animal Habitats; Visit Six Animal
Habitats – Nancy White
PB - The Water Hole – Graeme Base
PB - New Mexico A to Z – Dorothy Hines-Weaver
PB - Exploring National Parks – Mary Maruca
PB - Earth song – Sally Rogers
PB - Mountain Meadow 1-2-3 – Caroline Stutson
PB - On the River A-B-C – Caroline Stutson
PB - Magic School Bus: Gets All Dried Up; A Book about Deserts – Suzanne
Weyn
PB - Over in the Grassland – Anna Wilson
PB - Who’s Home – Nancy Twinem
PB - Cactus Hotel – Brenda Z. Guiberson
PB – Baby Einstein: Jane’s Animal Expedition – Julie Aigner-Clark
PB – Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nests in the City – Barbara Bash
PB – All Kinds of Habitats – Sally Hewitt
YAF - Julie of Wolves – Jean Craighead George
YAF - Missing Gator of ‘ Gumbo Limbo: An Ecological Mystery - Jean
Craighead George
YAF - My Side of the Mountain Trilogy - Jean Craighead George
YAF - One Day on the Alpine Tundra - Jean Craighead George
YAF - One Day in the Desert - Jean Craighead George
YAF - One Day in the Prairie - Jean Craighead George
YAF - One Day in the Tropical Rainforest - Jean Craighead George
YAF - One Day in the Woods - Jean Craighead George
YAF - Who Really Killed Cock Robin? - Jean Craighead George
YAF - Hoot – Carl Hiaasen
YAF - The River – Gary Paulsen
YAF - Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
YAF - Brian’s Winter - Gary Paulsen
YAF - Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
YAF - Poppy – Avi (Ragweed and Poppy & Rye)
JFACT - Wildlife Atlas – John Farndon
JFACT – Where the Wild Things Live – Randi Hacker
JFACT – Animal Among Us: Living with Suburban Wildlife – Fran Hodgkins
JFACT - Endangered Animals and Habitats Series – various authors
JFACT - Mondo’s Exploring Series – various authors
JFACT - Animals in their Habitats Series – Francine Galko
JFACT - Exploring Habitats Series – various authors
JFACT - Small Worlds Series: In a House; A Saguaro Cactus; A Freshwater
Pond; A Tidal Pool; In a Backyard; Under a Stone; etc – various
authors
PB: Picture Book
YAF: Young Adult Fiction
JFACT: Juvenile Fact Book