Forest Module Print Resources for Students

Ages 4 through 8

Fiction

George, Kristine O'Connell. Old Elm speaks: Tree Poems. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Short

simple poems presenting images of trees, illustrated with paintings; good for reading aloud.

Gile, John. The First Forest . John Gile Communications, 1989. Story about greed versus caring with

trees as characters.

McGee, Marni. Forest Child. Simon and Schuster, 1994. Rich paintings illustrate the story of a boy lost

in the woods and cared for by animals.

Romanova, Natalia. Once There Was a Tree. E.P. Dutton, 1992. A richly illustrated story of a tree stump

and its inhabitants and environs.

Van Leeuween, Jean. Nothing Here But Trees. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998. A pioneer family

makes a new home in the forested land of Ohio in the early 19th century.

Non-Fiction

Armbruster, Ann. Wildfires. Watts, 1996. Types of fires, technologies, controversies.

Arnold, Caroline. A Walk in the Woods. Silver Press, 1990. Plants and animamls, how the forest changes

with the seasons.

Arnosky, Jim. Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing the Trees. Simon and Schuster, 1992. An old woodland

character describes the parts of a tree, differences between forest types and their inhabitants.

Beame, Rona and Lionel Kalish. Backyard Explorer Leaf and Tree Guide with Book. Workman Publish-

ing Cmpany, Inc., 1989. Discusses types and life cycles of trees, how they function, how to collect and

preserve leaves, and presents some projects to do.

Gafney, Michael. Secret Forests. Artists, 1994. Discover insects in their habitat.

George, Lindsay Barrett. In the Woods: Who's Been Here? Greenwillow, 1995. On a walk in the autumn

woods, observe traces of creature activity, nests, food, cocoons.

Hankin, Rosie. Up the Tall Tree. Raintree/Steck-Vaughn, 1996. About the creatures that live in trees.

Kirkpatrick, Rena. Leaves. Raintree/Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1992. Introduces the various types of

leaves.

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