Table of Contents:

• 1 Pre-School and Lower Elementary (ages 3-9)
• 1.1 Peace Themes
• 1.2 Vegetarian and Environmental Themes
• 1.3 Helping Others, Diversity and Social Justice Issues
• 2 Upper Elementary and Teens (ages 10 and Up)
• 2.1 Peace Themes
• 2.2 Vegetarian and Environmental Themes
• 2.3 Helping Others, Diversity and Social Justice Issues
• 3 Primitive Skills
• 4 Awareness Activities
• 5 Reconnecting
• 6 Feral/Rewilding
• 7 Fauna/Animal Relations
• 8 Edible/Medicinal Plants
• 9 Mushrooms
• 10 Permaculture
• 11 General Indigenous
• 12 Indigenous Resistance
• 13 General Anti-Authoritarian
• 14 Anti-Authoritarian Individuals
• 15 Insurrection/Creation
• 16 Direct Action
• 17 Miscellaneous (Fiction/Homesteading/Self-Sufficiency)
• 18 More Books:
• 18.1 Harriette Gillem Robinet

Pre-School and Lower Elementary (ages 3-9)¶

Peace Themes¶

• Our Peaceful Classroom by Aline D. Wolf
• Sitti’s Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter by Diane Stanley
• Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: an adaptation for children by Ruth Rocha & Otavio Roth
• Cain and Abel: Finding The Fruits of Peace by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
• The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter

Vegetarian and Environmental Themes¶

• I Love Animals by Flora McDonnell
• Madeline and The Bad Hat by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• How Droofus The Dragon Lost His Head by Bill Peet
• Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
• A Prayer For The Earth: The Story of Naamah, Noah’s Wife by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Helping Others, Diversity and Social Justice Issues¶

• Faith The Cow by Susan Bame Hoover
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
• Sister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki
• Uncle Willie and The Soup Kitchen by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan
• Beatrice’s Goat by Page McBrier
• Maria’s Comet by Deborah Hopkinson
• Amelia And Eleanor Go For A Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
• You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! by Shana Corey
• But God Remembered: Stories Of Women From Creation To The Promised Land by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
• Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
• Rare Treasures: Mary Anning And Her Remarkable Discoveries by Don Brown

Upper Elementary and Teens (ages 10 and Up)¶

Peace Themes¶

• Crash by Jerry Spinelli
• The Arrow Over The Door by Joseph Brucher
• Summer’s End by Audrey Couloumbis
• Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
• The Eye of The Heron by Ursula K. LeGuin

Vegetarian and Environmental Themes¶

• Standing Up To Mr. O by Claudia Mills
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
• Hoot by Carl Hiassan
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli
• Owl In The Shower by Jean Craighead George
• Flush by Carl Hiassan

Helping Others, Diversity and Social Justice Issues¶

• Daphne’s Book by Mary Downing Hahn
• Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
• The Landry News by Andrew Clements
• The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
• My Mother The Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
• Taking Sides by Gary Soto
• Trino’s Choice by Diane Gonzales Bertrand
• Monkey Island by Paula Fox
• Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
• Junebug by Alice Mead.
• Tyrell by Coe Booth

Primitive Skills¶

• Whitefeather’s Outdoor Survivl Handbook for Kids – Whitefeather
• Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Survival for Children – Brown
• North American Indians Survival Skills – Liptak
• More than Moccasins – Carlson
• Houses of Bark – Shemie
• Houses of Hides and Earth – Shemie
• Houses of Snow, Skin, and Bones – Shemie
• Houses of Wood – Shemie
• Houses of Earth and Shell – Shemie
• Houses of Adobe – Shemie
• Long Ago Lake – Wilkins
• Crinkleroot Guides – Arnosky

Awareness Activities¶

• Keepers of the Night – Caduto and Bruchac
• Earthways – Petrash
• Native American Crafts Workshop – Bernstein
• Traditional Native American Crafts and Activities – Braman
• Sharing Nature with Children 1 & 2 – Cornell
• Sharing the Joy of Nature – Cornell
• Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon – Duensing
• Kamana for Kids – Repoley
• The Young Naturalist – Repoley
• Keeping a Nature Journal – Leslie
• Ecoart! – Carlson
• Good Earth Art – Kohl
• Earth Child 2000 – Sheehan
• Keepers of the Earth – Caduto

Reconnecting¶

• The Other Way to Listen – Baylor
• Giving Tree – Silverstein
• Weslandia – Fleischman
• Everybody Needs a Rock – Baylor
• Guy Flowering Plum Tree – Stemp
• The Great Change – White Deer
• Moonsong Lullaby – Highwater
• Into the Woods – Krupinski
• Tree of Life – Jackson
• Chipmunk Song – Ryder
• Beyond the Ridge – Goble
• Great Kapok Tree – Cherry
• A River Ran Wild – Cherry

Feral/Rewilding¶

• Wild Children – Landau
• The Boy Who Ran with Gazelles- Mayer
• The Wild Boy – Gerstein
• The Wolf Girls – Yolen
• The Mystery of Human Wolves – Wilson
• Children of the Wild – Burger
• The Forest Child – Edwards
• Wild Child – Plourde
• The Girl who Loved Wild Horses – Goble
• Salamander Room – Mazer
• Jaguar in the Rainforest – Ryder
• Adopted by Eagles – Goble
• Lost Colony of Roanoke – Fritz
• Dream Wolf – Goble
• Dark Horse – Sedgwick
• Wild Girl – Wormwell
• Man Eating Bugs – Menzel

Fauna/Animal Relations¶

• Keepers of the Animals – Caduto
• Skull Alphabet Book – Pallotta
• Amigo – Baylor
• Claws, Coats, and Camouflage – Goodman
• Hawk, I’m Your Brother – Baylor
• Out in the Night – Liptak
• Desert Voices – Baylor
• Thanks to the Animals – Sockabaskin
• Whale Brother – Steiner
• Boy Who Spoke Dog – Morgan
• Big Tracks, Little Tracks – Selsman
• Animal Tracks – Dorros
• Tracks in the Wild – Bowen
• Julie of the Wolves – George

Edible/Medicinal Plants¶

• Green Magic – Kelly
• Fiddleheads and Mustard Blossoms – Derevitzky
• Lobster Pots and Searocket Sandwiches – Derevitzky
• Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America – Fernald
• Wild Plants You Can Eat – Young
• Wild Edibles – Hamilton
• Wild Foods – Pringle
• Milkweed and Winkles
• Acorn Pancakes, Dandelion Salad and Other Wild Dishes – George
• Wild, Wild Cookbook – George
• Medicines from Nature – Thomas
• Ethnobotany – Young
• >From Earth to Beyond Sky – Wolfson
• Song of Seven Herbs – Walking Night Bear
• Mysteries of the Rain Forest: 20th Century Medicine Men – Pascoe
• Keepers of Life – Caduto
• Wildflower Tea – Pochocki
• North American Indian Medicine – Liptak
• My Grandfather is a Magician – Onyefulu
• Honeysuckle Sipping – Chesanow
• Miranda’s Magical Garden – Atnip
• Herbalist of Yarrow – de la Tour
• Shaman’s Apprentice – Cherry
• Wildflowers Around the Year – Ryden
• Shanleya’s Quest – Elpel

Mushrooms¶

• Good Mushrooms and Bad Toadstools – Fowler
• Mushrooms – Laessoe
• Mushrooms of the World to Color – Bowers
• Mushroom Hunt – Frazer
• Katya’s Book of Mushrooms – Arnold
• Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet – Cameron
• Instant Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi – Lawrence
• Mushroom Man – Pochocki
• Sebastian and the Mushroom – Krann

Permaculture¶

• Our Allotment – Burnett
• Permaculture: A Beginner’s Guide – Burnett
• ABC’s of Permaculture – Zine
• Native American Gardening – Caduto
• Compost, By Gosh! – Portman
• Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap – Roulston
• In the Three Sisters Garden – Dennee
• The Secret Garden – Burnett

General Indigenous¶

• Australian Aborigines – Nile (Threatened Cultures series)
• Saami of Lapland – Vitebsky (Threatened Cultures series)
• Maori – McDonald (Threatened Cultures series)
• Kurds – King (Threatened Cultures series)
• Kalahari Bushmen – Barnard (Threatened Cultures series)
• Rainforest Amerindians – Lweington (Threatened Cultures series)
• Tibetans – Kendra (Threatened Cultures series)
• Bedouin – King (Threatened Cultures series)
• Inuit – Alexander (Threatened Cultures series)
• Romanichal Gypsies – Acton (Threatened Cultures series)
• Atlas of Threatened Cultures – Mason
• Efe – Siy
• Penen – Siy
• Eeyou – Siy
• Waorani – Siy
• Black Indians – Katz
• A Journey to New York – Norberg-Hodge
• The People Shall Continue – Ortiz
• Coyote Columbus – King
• When Clay Sings – Baylor
• Erandi’s Braids – dePaola
• Whale Rider – Ihimaera
• Clambake – Peters

Indigenous Resistance¶

• Story of Colors – Subcomandante Marcos
• Questions and Swords – Subcomandante Marcos
• Brave Eagle’s Account of the Fetterman Fight – Goble
• A Boy Called Slow – Bruchac
• Crazy Horse’s Vision – Bruchac
• Red Hawk’s Account of Custer’s Last Stand – Goble
• Rabbit-Proof Fence – Pilkington
• Battlefields and Burial Grounds – Echo Hawk
• Death of the Iron Horse – Goble
• The Defenders – McGovern
• Osceola: Seminole Warrior- Oppenheim
• Osceola:1804-1838 – Koestler
• Cochise – Schwartz
• With All My Might – Dean
• Geronimo: Apache Warrior – Haugen
• Geronimo: Wolf on the Warpath – Moody
• Geronimo: Apache Freedom Fighter – Hermann
• Sitting Bull Remembers – Turner
• The Story of Sitting Bull – Eisenberg
• Tecumseh: Shawnee War Chief – Fleischer
• These Lands are Ours – Connell
• Crazy Horse: Sioux Warrior – Haugen
• Crazy Horse – St. George
• Black Elk – Shaw
• Ishi – Peterson
• Not Guilty – Sullivan

General Anti-Authoritarian¶

• Yertle the Turtle – Seuss
• The Sneetches – Seuss
• The Butter Battle Book – Seuss
• Anarchist Farm – Jane Doe
• Harold and Maude
• Table where Rich People Sit – Baylor
• Tacky the Penguin – Lester
• Araboolies of Liberty Street – Swope
• Work, Work, Work – Quinn
• Anarchist Stories for Children – DeVoy
• Calvin and Hobbes Guide to Life – Banks
• Children’s Guide to Nihilism – Aragorn!
• Bear and Raccoon Stories – Aragorn!
• Anti-Authoritarian ABC’s zine

Anti-Authoritarian Individuals¶

• Life and Times of Emma Goldman – Emma Goldman Papers Project
• A Visit to William Blake’s Inn – Willard
• Zhuangzi Speaks – Chih-chung Ts’ai
• The Trouble with Henry: A Tale of Walden Pond – O’Neil
• A Man Named Thoreau – Burleigh
• Into the Deep Forest with Thoreau -Murphy
• Henry David’s House – Schnur
• Walking with Henry – Locker
• A Hound, a Bay Horse, a Turtle Dove – Wood
• What Befell at Mrs. Brooks – Overlie
• A Mind with Wings – JHusman
• Luisa May and Mr.Thoreau’s Flute – Dunlap
• Henry David Thoreau – Reef
• Henry David Thoreau: Writer and Rebel – Stern
• Henry Works – Johnson
• Henry Climbs a Mountain – Johnson
• Henry Builds a Cabin – Johnson
• Henry Hikes to Fitchburg – Johnson

Insurrection/Creation¶

• Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak
• The Secret World of Duvbo – CrimethInc
• I’m in Charge of Celebrations – Baylor
• Super Cilantro Girl – Herrera
• Math Curse – Scieszka
• Piggy in the Puddle – Pomerantz
• Naughty Parents – Gosney
• The Way to Start a Day – Baylor
• Uno’s Garden – Base

Direct Action¶

• The Luddites – Liversidge
• The Story of John Brown’s Raid – Kent
• The Lorax – Seuss
• Hoot – Hiaasen
• Flush – Hiaasen
• The Sheep Look Up – Brunner
• Quest for the Faradawn – Ford
• Little Squatter’s Handbook – Cordelia and Ziggy
• Pom Poko (video)
• Missing from Haymerket Square – Robinet
• Breaking Free: The Adventures of Tintin – Daniels
• Farewell to Shady Glade – Peet

Miscellaneous (Fiction/Homesteading/Self-Sufficiency)¶

• Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell
• Snow Walker (video)
• Fire-Us – Armstrong and Butcher
• Tuck Everlasting – Babbitt
• Hatchet – Paulsen
• Touching Spirit Bear – Mikaelsen
• Heidi – Spyri
• Watership Down – Adams
• The Blue Butterfly (video)
• Erandi’s Braids – de Paola
• My Side of the Mountain – George
• One Small Blue Bead – Baylor
• Lobo of the Tasaday – Nance

More Books:¶

• Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike In L.A. -Diana Cohn
• Conversations With Durito: Stories Of The Zapatistas And Neoliberalism -
• Subcomandante Marcos
• Los Historios de los Colores by Subcomandante Marcos
• Selavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope – Youme Landowne
• Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
• Let’s Get A Pup! Said Kate by Bob Graham
• bell hooks
• Phillip Pullman
• Sally Lockhart books by Phillip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The
• Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess
• Carly by Annegert Fuchshuber and Florence Howe
• Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
• Super Cilantro Girl by Juan Felipe Herrera and Honorio Robleda Tapia
• Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and Lynn Munsinger
• The Araboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope
• The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko
• The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
• The mysterious adventures of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline
• The tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Rabbit Island by Jorg Steiner
• The Bear Who Wanted To Be A Bear by Jorg Steiner and Jorg Mueller
• Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard
• Brave Potatoes by Toby Speed & Barry Root
• The Pirate Queen by Emily Arnold McCully
• Oh Lord, I wish I was a Buzzard by Polly Greenberg & Aliki
• The Enormous Carrot by Vladimir Vagin
• Nanabosho: How the Turtle Got its Shell by Joe McLellan
• Crocodile Crocodile by Peter Nickl
• Kids On Strike photo book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• The Future Generation: a Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others, 2007, Atomic Book Company – China Martens
• My Mother Wears Combat Boots, (2007 ? or 08) PM Press – Jessica Mills
• My Baby Rides The Shortbus -PM PRESS
• Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children – Barker

Harriette Gillem Robinet¶

• TWELVE TRAVELERS, TWENTY HORSES (Atheneum 2003)
• MISSING FROM HAYMARKET SQUARE (Atheneum 2001)
• WALKING TO THE BUS RIDER BLUES (Atheneum 2000)
• FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE (Atheneum 1998)
• THE TWINS, THE PIRATES, AND THE BATTLE OF NEW OREANS (Atheneum 1997)
• WASHINGTON CITY IS BURNING (Atheneum 1996)
• IF YOU PLEASE, PRESIDENT LINCOLN (Atheneum 1995)
• MISSISSIPPI CHARIOT (Atheneum 1994)
• CHILDREN OF THE FIRE (Atheneum 1991)
• RIDE THE RED CYCLE (Houghton Mifflin 1980)
• JAY AND THE MARIGOLD (Childrens Press 1976)