Earth Day books
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- April
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It’s Earth Day and a perfect time to read and find out more about ecology, nature and our planet.
Here are some suggestions for everyone:
• At the federal Environmental Protection Agency you can check out a list of books including “The ABCs of Environmental Education” and also download a coloring and activity book for children called “The Happy Earth Day.”
•Amazon.com is featuring “Lets Celebrate Earth Day” by Connie and Peter Roop with illustrations by Gwen Connelly (Millbook Press, 2001), a question-and-answer book about our wonderful planet. There are plenty of other related titles for children and adults.
• Riverkeeper, the environmental organization, has its own Reading Room on its Web site with a selection of titles to check out from “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson to “The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River” by Stephen P. Stanne, Roger G. Panetta and Brian E. Forist to “Fidelity” by Grace Paley, a poet and activist to “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning” by George Monbiot.
• Check out an online map of nature sites in the United States at the Nature Conservatory.
• The Sierra Club, which has a chapter devoted to Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, now has a online bookshop from its national Web site. Here you can also download audio portions of some titles. The group has just published “Galen Rowell: A Retrospective” about the life and work of the nature photographer. Plenty of other publications are noted on the site in categories including Just for Kids and Publisher’s Pick.
• At the Yonkers Public Library at 4:00pm today at 1 Larkin Center is a program called “Treasures from Trash.” Celebrate Earth Day at the public library by making a craft from recycled materials from house and garden. Riverfront Library, Community Room.
Happy Earth Day — and feel free to share your book idea.
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