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Favorite Science Storybooks- Living Things

Heidi’s Favorite Storybooks that Connect Earth’s Living Things

“The Lorax” By Dr. Suess

“My Little Book of Manatees” By Hope Irvin Marston, Illustrated By Stephanie Mirocha

“The Snow Bear” By Miriam Moss, Illustrated Maggie Kneen

“Mister Seahorse” by Eric Carle

“The Mitten” By Jan Brett

“Sea Turtle Journey:  The Story of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle”  By Lorraine A. Jay, Illustrated by Katie Lee

“This Is The Day” By Nancy Wite Carlstrom, Illustrated By Richard Cowdrey

“Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad” By David Soman and Jacky Davis

“The Very Hungary Caterpillar”  By Eric Carle

“Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?”  By Susan A. Shea

“On the Day You Were Born”  By Debra Frasier

“I’m A Pill Bug”  By Yukihisa Tokuda

“Old Turtle”  By Douglas Wood  Watercolors by Cheng-Khee Chee

“The Minnesota Bug Hunt”  By Bruce Giebink Photos by Bill Johnson

“A Frog Thing”  By Eric Drachman Illustrated by James Muscarello

“The Salamander Room”  By Anne Mazer  Illustrated by Steve Johnson & Lou Francher

“Kid Heroes of the Environment”  By The Earthwoorks Group, Catherine Dee

“Girls Who Looked Under Rocks”  By Jeannine Atkins

“Swing Around the Sun” Poems by Barbara Luster Esbensen, Art by Cheng-Khee Chee, Janice Lee Porter, Mary GrandPre, & Stephen Gammell

“Underground”  By Denise Fleming

“Pagoo”  By Holling Clancy Holling

“The Rainbow Fish”  By Marcus Pfister

January 2013