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This selection of books from 1970 to present
was prepared by Gretl Cox of EPA's
Headquarters Library. It is arranged in two
sections. The first section is for children from
kindergarten through the sixth grade with books
grouped by grade level. The second section is
for students in grades seven through twelve;
books are listed by subject area.
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Selected Books for
Kindergarten to Grade 6
Kindergarten - Grade 1
ABC OF ECOLOGY by Frances Womsak. Los
Altos Hill, CA: Davenport, 1982.
ABOUT GARBAGE AND STUFF by Ann Z. Shanks.
New York: Viking, 1973.
CLEAN STREETS, CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR by
Cynthia Chapin. Chicago: A.
Whitman, 1970.
GARBAGE DELIGHT by Dennis Lee. New York: F.
Watts, 1978.
JUNK by Nick Ward. Bridgeport, CT:
Merrimack, 1984.
LET'S BE NATURE'S FRIEND! by Jack Stokes. New
York: H.Z. Walch, 1977.
THE MUD GRUMP by Jack Greene. Lexington
Park, MD: Golden Owl, 1980.
POLLUTION by Herta Breiter. Milwaukee:
Raintree, 1978.
SAVE THE EARTH: AN ECOLOGY HANDBOOK FOR
KIDS by Betty Miles. New York:
Knopf, 1974.
WHERE CAN THE ANIMALS Go? by Ronald Wegen.
New York: Greenwillow Books,
1978.
WHERE DOES THE GARBAGE Go? by Paul
Showers. New York: Crowell, 1974.
WHO CARES? I Do by Munro Leaf. New York:
Lippincott, 1971. (Waste Disposal)
WHO WILL CLEAN THE AIR? by Thomas Biddle
Perera. New York: Coward-McCann
& Geoghegan, 1971.
WHO WILL WASH THE RIVER? by Wallace
Orlowsky. New York.
Coward-McCann. 1970.
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Grade 2 - 4
ANIMALS IN DANGER by Benjamin Kalman. New
York: Random House, 1982.
CONSERVATION AND POLLUTION by Lawrence
Santrey. Mahwah, NJ: Troll
Associates, 1985.
ENDANGERED ANIMALS by Lynn Stone. Chicago:
Children's Press, 1984.
EVERY DAY Is EARTH DAY by Ilia Podendorf.
Chicago: Children's Press, 1971.
LITTER: THE UGLY ENEMY by Dorothy Edwards
Shuttlesworth. New York:
Doubleday, 1972.
THE LIVING OCEAN by Rupert Ormond. Chicago:
Children's Press, 1981.
MARSHES AND SWAMPS by Lynn Stone. Chicago:
Children's Press, 1983.
NATURE'S ASSISTANT by Victoria Cox. New
York: Golden Press, 1974. (Waste
Disposal)
ONCE THERE WAS A STREAM by Joel Rothman.
Merrick, NY: Scroll Press, 1973.
POLLUTION by Herta Breiter. Milwaukee:
Raintree, 1983.
RANGER RICK'S ANSWER BOOK ed. by Howard
Robinson. Vienna, VA: National
Wildlife Federation, 1981.
SAVING OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS by Susan McGrath.
Washington, DC: National
Geographic Society, 1986.
THREE DROPS OF WATER by Sigmund Kalina.
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shephard,
1974.
Too MUCH GARBAGE by Patricia Lauber.
Champaign, IL: Garrard, 1974.
WETLANDS: BOGS, MARSHES AND SWAMPS by
Lewis Buck. New York: Parents
Magazine Press, 1974.
WHAT HAPPENS TO GARBAGE? by Rona Beame.
New York: J. Messner, 1975.
WHAT'S UNDER THE SEA? by Solveig Paulson
Russell. Nashville: Abingdon, 1982.
THE WORLD BENEATH THE SEA by Susan Harris.
New York: F. Watts, 1979.
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Grade 5 - 6
ANIMAL RESCUE by William Wise. New York:
Putnam, 1978.
ANIMALS IN DAGGER ed. by National Geographic
Society. Washington, DC: National
Geographic Society, 1978.
CITY AND SUBURB: EXPLORING OUR ECOSYSTEM by
Laurence Pringle. New York:
Macmillan, 1975.
CLEAN AIR by Beulah Tannenbaum. New York:
McGraw Hill, 1973.
DREAMS OF A PERFECT EARTH by Margery Milne.
New York: Atheneum, 1982.
FOR CRYING OUT CLOUD: A STUDY OF AGIO RAIN
by Maria Coyne. Minneapolis: Tasa
Pub. Co., 1981.
KEEPING OUR CITIES CLEAN by Ross Robert
Olney. New York: }. Messner, 1979.
MAN'S MARK ON THE LAND by Arthur S. Gregor.
New York: Scribner, 1974.
THE MYSTERIOUS UNDERSEA WORLD by Jan Leslie
Cook. Washington, DC: National
Geographic Society, 1980.
OIL SPILLS: DANGER IN THE SEA by Joseph E.
Brown. New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co., 1978.
OUR AMAZING OCEAN by David A. Adler.
Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1983.
OUR DIRTY AIR by Sarah M. Elliott. New York:
J. Messner, 1971.
OUR DIRTY LAND by Sarah M. Elliott. New York:
J. Messner, 1976.
OUR DIRTY WATER by Sarah M. Elliott. New
York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.
OUR WILD WETLANDS by Sheila Cowing. New
York: J. Messner, 1980.
POISONED LAND: THE PROBLEM OF HAZARDOUS
WASTE by Irene Kiefer. New York:
Atheneum, 1981.
POLLUTION by Geraldine and Harold Woods.
New York: F. Watts, 1985.
RESCUE FROM EXTINCTION by Joseph E. Brown.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1981.
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THE TRIP OF A DRIP by Vicki Cobb. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co., 1986. (Drinking
Water)
WATER FOR THE WORLD by Franklin Branley.
New York: Crowell Jr., 1982.
WATER RESOURCES by Trudy Hanmer. New
York: F. Watts, 1985.
WETLANDS by William A. Niering. New York:
Knopf, 1985.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE LAND? by
Laurence Pringle. New York:
Crowell, 1981.
WHICH WAY TO THE WILDERNESS? by Tricia
Springstubb. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co., 1984.
Selected Books for
Grades 7 to 12
Air
ACID RAIN by Kathlyn Gay. New York: F. Watts,
1983.
ACID RAIN: A SOURCEBOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE by
Christina Miller. New York: ].
Messner, 1986.
AIR POLLUTION EXPERIMENTS FOR JUNIOR AND
SENIOR HIGH SCIENCE CLASSES by
Donald C. Hunter. Pittsburgh: Air
Pollution Control Assn., 1972.
THE AIR WE Livt IN: AIR POLLUTION, WHAT WE
MUST Do ABOUT IT by James
Marshall. New York:
Coward-McCann, 1970.
CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER FOR TOMORROW'S
WORLD by Reed Millard. New York:
J. Messner, 1977.
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DANGEROUS AIR by Lucy Kavaler. New York:
John Day & Co., 1976.
GOING SOUR: SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF ACID RAIN
by Roy Gould. Cambridge, MA:
Birkhauser Boston Inc., 1985.
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION by Eva and Alexander
Stwertka. New York: F. Watts, 1981.
A KILLING RAIN: THE GLOBAL THREAT OF ACID
PRECIPITATION by Thomas Pawlick.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1984.
THE LONG, LONG POLLUTION CRISIS by Theodore
S. Pettit. New York: Putnam, 1975.
THE NEW YORK TIMES ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY
OF THE ENVIRONMENT by Paul Sarnoff.
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Now OR NEVER: THE FIGHT AGAINST POLLUTION
by Daniel Stephen Halacy. New
York: Four Winds Press, 1971.
POLLUTION: THE AIR WE BREATHE by Claire
Jones. Minneapolis: Lerner
Publications, 1971.
PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT by Grant S.
McClellan. New York: H.W. Wilson,
1970.
TROUBLED SKIES, TROUBLED WATERS: THE STORY
OF ACID RAIN by Jon R. Luoma. New
York: Viking, 1984.
WE ARE THE TARGETS: THE STORY OF
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT by Harold J.
McKenna. New York: Richards
Rosen Press, 1980.
THE WORLD You INHERIT: A STORY OF POLLUTION
by John Gabriel Navarra. New York:
Natural History Press, 1970.
YOUR ENVIRONMENT: AIR, AIR POLLUTION AND
WEATHER by Collins M. Henson.
Danville, IL: Interstate Printers
Publishers, 1971.
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Solid and Hazardous Waste
EVERYONE'S TRASH PROBLEM by Margaret O. and
Bruce G. Hyde. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1979.
How Do THEY GET RID OF IT? by Suzanne
Hilton. Philadelphia: Westminster
Press, 1970.
LAYING WASTE: THE POISONING OF AMERICA BY
Toxic CHEMICALS by Michael Brown.
New York: Pantheon, 1980.
THE POISON THAT FELL FROM THE SKY by John G.
Fuller. New York: Random House,
1977.
POISONED LAND: THE PROBLEM OF HAZARDOUS
WASTE by Irene Kiefer. New York:
Atheneum, 1981.
RECYCLING: RE-USING OUR WORLD'S SOLID
WASTES by James and Lynn Hahn.
New York: F. Watts, 1973.
THROWING THINGS AWAY by Laurence Pringle.
New York: Crowell, 1986.
Toxic THREAT by Stephen Zipko. New York: F.
Messner, 1986.
Toxic WASTE: CLEANUP OR COVERUP by Malcolm
Weiss. New York: F. Watts, 1984.
THE WASTE WATCHERS: A CITIZEN'S HANDBOOK
FOR CONSERVING ENERGY AND
RESOURCES by Arthur H. Purcell. New
York: Anchor Books, 1980.
WASTES by Christina G. Miller. New York: F.
Watts, 1986.
WHO Is POISONING AMERICA ed. by Ralph Nader
et al. San Francisco: Sierra Club
Books, 1981.
Water
THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA AND BEYOND by Carl
Heintze. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1975.
EXPLORING OCEAN FRONTIERS by F. Scott. New
York: Parents Magazine Press, 1970.
EXPLORING THE OCEAN WORLD by C.P. Idyll. New
York: Crowell, 1970.
OCEANS IN PERIL by Christopher Fine. New
York: Atheneum. 1987.
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THE OCEANS IN TOMORROW'S WORLD: How CAN
WE USE AND PROTECT THEM? by David
Reuben Michelsohn. New York: J.
Messner, 1972.
OCEANS OF ENERGY: RESERVOIR OF POWER FOR THE
FUTURE by Augusta R. Goldin. New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1980.
OCEANS OF THE WORLD: OUR ESSENTIAL RESOURCE
by Kirk Polking. New York: Putnam,
1983.
OF RIVERS AND THE SEA by Herbert French. New
York: Putnam, 1972.
OIL SPILLS IN THE SEA by Joseph E. Brown. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1978.
POLLUTION: THE WATERS OF THE EARTH by Claire
Jones. Minneapolis: Lerner
Publications, 1971.
THE SEA IN DANGER by Jacques Yves Cousteau.
New York: World Publications, 1974.
TERRACIDE: AMERICA'S DESTRUCTION OF HER
LIVING ENVIRONMENT by Ron M.
Linton. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,
1970.
WATER: A SCARCE RESOURCE by Henry Gilfond.
New York: F. Watts, 1978."
WATER, THE LIFE SUSTAINING RESOURCE by
Robert Gardner. New York: J.
Messner, 1982.
WATER: THE NEXT GREAT RESOURCE BATTLE by
Laurence Pringle. New York:
Macmillan, 1982.
WATER: THE WONDER OF LIFE by Rutherford
Platt. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
WATER: Too MUCH, Too LITTLE, Too POLLUTED
by Augusta Goldin. New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
Pesticides
PESTS AND PEOPLE: THE SEARCH FOR SENSIBLE
PEST CONTROL by Laurence Pringle.
New York: Macmillan, 1972.
UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION by Ruth M.
Harmer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
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Note: "Silent Spring" written by Rachel
Carson and published by Houghton-Mifflin,
Boston in 1962, should be read by anyone who
is interested in environmental issues. The book
focused national attention on the
environmental damage caused by pesticides
and stirred public concern for protecting the
environment. A follow-up book, "Since Silent
Spring," written by Frank Graham, and
published by Houghton-Mi//Iin in 1970, is also
recommended reading.
Ecology
CHALLENGE FOR SURVIVAL, LAND, AIR AND WATER
FOR THE MAN IN MEGALOPOLIS ed. by
Pierre Dansereau. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1970.
THE CHANGING WORLD OF LIVING THINGS by
Frances L. Behnke. New York: Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
THE CLOSING CIRCLE: NATURE, MAN AND
TECHNOLOGY by Barry Commoner.
New York: Knopf, 1971.
CONSERVATION: THE CHALLENGE OF RECLAIMING
OUR PLUNDERED LAND by C. William
Harrison. New York: J. Messner,
1973.
THE CONSUMER'S CATALOG OF ECONOMY AND
ECOLOGY by Jeanne and Robert
Bendick. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1974.
DECIDING How TO LIVE ON SPACESHIP EARTH by
Allen Rodney. Evanston:
McDougal-Littell, 1973.
THE ECOLOGICAL CONSCIENCE; VALUES FOR
SURVIVAL by Robert Disch.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1970.
ECOLOGY by Martin J. Gutnik. New York: F.
Watts, 1984.
ECOLOGY AND POLLUTION - WATER by Martin J.
Gutnik. Chicago: Children's Press,
1973.
ECOLOGY, SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL by Laurence
Pringle. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
THE ENVIRONMENT by Irving Adler. New York:
John Day & Co., 1976.
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HABITAT by Daniel Stephen Halacy.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Co.,
1970.
IT'S YOUR ENVIRONMENT by Environmental
Action Coalition. New York:
Scribner, 1976.
THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL HANDBOOK ed. by
Garrett DeBell. San Francisco:
Friends of the Earth, 1980.
OUR POLLUTED WORLD; CAN MAN SURVIVE? by
John Perry. New York: F. Watts,
1972.
PLANET EARTH 2000 by David Lambert. New
York: Facts On File, 1985.
THE SHRINKING OUTDOORS by Gary Jennings.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.
THE WOUNDED EARTH by Carl Marzani. Reading,
MA: Young Scott Books, 1972.
Conservation
EARTH, THE GREAT RECYCLER by Helen Ross
Russell. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1973.
THE ECONOMIC GROWTH DEBATE: ARE THERE
LIMITS To GROWTH? by Laurence
Pringle. New York: F. Watts, 1978.
LIVES AT STAKE: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH by Laurence
Pringle. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
ONLY EARTH WE HAVE by Laurence Pringle.
New York: Macmillan, 1970.
ONLY ONE EARTH: THE CARE AND MAINTENANCE
OF A SMALL PLANET by Barbara Ward.
Glendale, CA: Norton, 1972.
To THE RESCUE: SEVEN HEROES OF CONSERVATION
by Rita Vandivert. New York: F.
Warne, 1982.
THE WILDERNESS WAR: THE STRUGGLE TO
PRESERVE AMERICA'S WILDLANDS by
Edward B. Weinstock. New York: J.
Messner, 1982.
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