Bibliography: Grade 1

Kinds of Living Things

Tree of Life: The World of the African Baobab
by Barbara Bash
Sierra Club Books/Little, Brown, 1989
Children learn about the life cycle of a tree living on the African savannah.

Welcome to the Green House
by Jane Yolen
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993
This story helps children classify the plants and animals inhabiting a tropical rain forest.

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Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
by Steve Jenkins
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995
Children learn interesting facts about different living things.

Weather and Seasons

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema
Dial Press, 1981
This tale uses rhyme to help children understand weather and how drought affects lands.

Around the Oak
by Gerda Miller
Dutton, 1992
Children can explore the wonders of seasonal weather changes by watching how life around an oak tree responds to different weather conditions.

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Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998
This is the story of Wilson Bentley, who had not only a scientist's vision and perseverance, but a clear passion for one of the wonders of nature--snowflakes.

Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Emmett's Snowball
by Ned Miller
Henry Holt and Co., 1990
Children learn how materials change from one state to another in this story of a boy who makes a giant snowball.

Air Is All Around You
by Franklyn M. Branley
Harper and Row, 1986
This nonfiction book illustrates the properties of air and how it affects life and daily activities.

Earth's Land and Water

The Sun, the Wind and the Rain
by Lisa Westberg Peters
Henry Holt, 1988
Elizabeth builds a sand mountain on a beach and explores how the wind and sand can reshape it in one afternoon.

Let's Go Rock Collecting
by Roma Gans
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997
Children learn how to start a rock collection and recognize igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.

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What's in the Tide Pool?
by Anne Hunter
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000
Children learn about the plants and animals that live at the edges of the oceans.

Keeping Fit and Healthy

Jonathan and His Mommy
by Irene Smalls
Little, Brown, & Company, 1992
This story emphasizes the importance of exercise as it follows a boy and his mother on a walk through town.

What Happens to a Hamburger
by Paul Showers
HarperTrophy, 1985
The importance of good nutrition and a healthful diet is reinforced in this tale about what happens to food after it is eaten.

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