This a list of books about Midwestern wetlands and their inhabitants. Most were selected from U.S. EPA's Wetlands Reading List, but some were submitted by kids, too!
Most titles have reviews available on the
U.S.
EPA list. If you'd like more
information about an U.S. EPA recommended title, you can
read its summary (and view the entire list) at the
Office
of Water, Oceans and Wetlands
kids' page.
Prekindergarten - Grade 2
- Come Out, Muskrats, Jim Arnosky
- Dragonflies, Cynthia Overbeck
- If You Were a Wild Duck, Where Would You Go?, George Mendoza
- Let's Find Out About Frogs, Corrine J. Naden
- Willa in Wetlands, Peyton
Lewis and Rory Chalcraft
Summary of several titles shown here and entire U.S. EPA Wetlands Reading List available here.Grades 3-5
- Animals of the Ponds and Streams, Julie Becker
- From Pond to Prairie, Laurence Pringle
- Wetlands, Linda M. Stone
- Wonders of the Fields and Ponds at Night, Jacquellyn Berrill
- Frogs, Toads, Lizards and Salamanders, Nancy Winslow Parker and Joan Richards Wright
- Wetlands: Bogs, Marshes and
Swamps, Lewis Buck
Summary of several titles shown here and entire U.S. EPA Wetlands Reading List available here.
Grades 6-8
- The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico
- Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, Paul Russell Cartright
- Walking the Wetlands, Janet Lyons and Sandra Jordan
- Wetlands, Max Firlaison and
Michael Moser
Summary of several titles shown here and entire U.S. EPA Wetlands Reading List available here.
High School
- Of Men and Marshes, Paul L. Errington
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
- Okoboji Wetlands, Michael Lanoo
- A Country So Full of Game, Jim J. Dinsmore