From: Karen Leggett <leggett>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:56:17 -0400

For all interested in this topic on an ongoing basis, I'd like to recommend author Mary Quattlebaum's National Wildlife Federation blog on books about nature at http://www.greenhour.org/content/blog/list_posts/author/4783. This month she recommends A Tree for Emmy (Peachtree, ages 3 to 7): "For her birthday, Emmy asks for a tree like her grandmother's mimosa, with "strong low branches" for swinging and fuzzy pink blossoms. No one sells wild trees, alas, but Emmy does find a little "volunteer" right by Gramma's tree. Carefully, she and Gramma dig it up and transplant it in Emmy's yard. Though initially disappointed that the sprig can't yet delight like her favorite mimosa, Emmy soon finds joy in caring for the sapling and imagining its growth."
     

Mary's own Jackson Jones chapter-book series (Random House) follows a boy and his adventures in a city community garden
(Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns, Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop, and Jackson Jones and the Curse of the

Outlaw Rose).



I'd also like to highlight Marfe Delano Ferguson, who has one of the newest books directly about climate change - Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World (National Geographic). Marfe provides very readable explanations of the science behind climate change, but also lots of specific actions kids can take to reduce their own "carbon footprint."



Karen Leggett

Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C.
Received on Tue 02 Jun 2009 01:56:17 PM CDT