Books like Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish
By Michael Foreman
For the kid who already asks hard questions about litter and pollution, this classic fable turns those worries into a story with real weight. Wistful, strange, quietly urgent — a fable with teeth under its gentle illustrations.
A mysterious creature called the Once-ler tells the story of how he chopped down every Truffula Tree to build his factory, ignoring the Lorax's warnings until the forest and its animals were gone.
A boy who shrugs off nature falls asleep in his own bed and wakes in a series of dream landscapes that show him a polluted, damaged future Earth.
A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.
In a real Harlem neighborhood, a girl named Nevaeh calls an abandoned lot the haunted garden, until a caring man invites the local kids to transform it into a thriving farm.
A father and daughter hike down into the Grand Canyon, layer by layer, uncovering fossils and creatures that reveal millions of years of history hidden in the rock.
On her first camping trip, a costumed superhero girl tries hard to keep her basset hound Bingo on his leash — but when he slips free to explore the forest alone, she has to track him down before marshmallow time at the campfire.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
A rabbit who can't resist Crackenhopper Field's fattest carrots starts seeing and hearing them everywhere he goes — and has to figure out if they're really following him.
A hermit crab outgrows his old shell and moves into a new one, decorating it month by month with sea creatures he meets along the way — until he must leave it all behind and start again.
On the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain, a herdsman named Ki-pat sets out to bring the rain back, told in a cumulative rhyme that builds line by line like The House That Jack Built.
A young squirrel named Squeakers scampers through the forest and comes upon a dangerous Crickle-Crack tree — and despite knowing better, curiosity pulls him closer.
A girl named Allashua sneaks onto the sea ice to fish against her parents' warning, and gets caught by the Qallupilluit, forcing her to outwit them with a dangerous promise.
