Kids Book Index
Henry Cole, illustrated by Henry Cole
In late winter, two beavers begin making a dam in a small stream, creating a pond as they continue their work. A beaver family lives in the lodge, where young are born in spring and soon venture into the water. After a storm harms the dam, the beavers mend it. By summer, the expanded pond supports birds, insects, turtles, and other wildlife.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the SouthGail JarrowThis book investigates hookworm’s devastating effects in the American South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explains how larvae could enter through skin, often bare feet, then travel through the body to the small intestine, where they fed on a host’s blood. The account covers Charles Wardell Stiles’s identification of the species and efforts to reduce its spread, including public education, testing, treatment, and improved sanitation advocated by the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission.Historical People, Places, and EventsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Walk through the Rain ForestMartin JenkinsSet in Malaysia’s Taman Negara, this book explores a tropical rain-forest ecosystem from the forest floor to the canopy. Its scenes include ants, elephants, leopards, hornbills, gibbons, bats, and other living things, including species that spread and fertilize seeds. A narrative provides ecosystem details, and end matter covers rain forests, deforestation, and the effects on rain-forest species. A visual recap identifies the creatures depicted.Science, Technology, and the Natural WorldOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David ThoreauJulie Dunlap, illustrated by Megan Elizabeth BarattaThis illustrated biography presents Henry David Thoreau’s life through the changing seasons and the natural world around Concord, Massachusetts. Designed like a nature journal, it draws on his observations of plants and animals and includes a dated timeline introducing phenology, the study of when natural events occur. The book places Thoreau’s work in wider social, political, and geographic context, including his support for abolition and his thoughts on Charles Darwin. His detailed records across days and years are connected to present-day study of climate change, extending beyond his time at Walden Pond.Science, Technology, and the Natural WorldOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details