Reading lists!
Parent & librarian recommended books & videos to inform and inspire!
Infants & Toddlers
Baby Beluga, Raffi [link]
Some Bugs, Angela DeTerlizzi [link]
Planting a Rainbow, Lois Ehlert [link]
Grades K-2
We are Water Protectors, Carole Lindstrom [link]
Something Happened in our Town, M. Celano [link]
The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales, Dawn Casey [link]
Call Me Tree/Llámame Árbol, Maya Christina Gonzalez [link]
Middle School
Forest World, Margarita Engle [link]
Heroes of the Environment, Harriet Rohmer [link]
A Kid's Guide to Saving the Planet [link]
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth, Rachel Ignotofsky [link]
Stamped: Racism, antiracism & you, J. Reynolds, I.X. Kendi [link] [Interview]
Nature films for younger children
Crash Course Kids. <5 min. science videos
Born to Be Wild by PBS (42 min.)
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (553 min.)
Earth by Disney (90 min.)
Jane by National Geographic (90 min.)
March of the Penguins (80 min.)
Winged Migration (90 min.)
Pre-School
Bee & Me, Alison Jay [link]
Green, Laura Vaccaro Seeger [link]
We Planted a Tree, Diane Muldrow [link]
The Skin You Live In, Michael Tyler [video link]
Grades 3-5
Wangari Maathai, Franck Prévot [link]
Buzzing with Questions, Janice Harrington [link]
A Kids Book about Racism, Jelani Memory [link]
Josie & the Trouble with Trash, Handman & Bruno [link]
Not my Idea: A book about whiteness, A. Higginbotham [link]
High School
The Overstory, Richard Powers [link]
The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard [link]
No One is too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg, [link]
Youth v. Gov Documentary [link]
Short climate videos for older children
Climate Change Song (4:23 min.)
What is Climate Change? causes & solutions. Simple animation from Australia (2:40 min.)
Weather v. Climate (3:40 min.)
Climate 101 (2011 retro style) with Bill Nye (4:33 min.)
Climate 101 (2015 National Geographic style) with Bill Nye (4 min.)
TedEd video - Climate Change: Earth’s Giant Game of Tetris (2:48 min.)
Wow in the World: How to be cool to a planet that’s hot (30 min.)
NASA’s Kids’ Guide to Climate Change
Books for adults
The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can by Stan Cox
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
This Changes Everything : Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Climate Justice: Hope Resilience & the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett Carnac
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change & Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren
What We're Fighting for Now is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson