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The Forests: A celebration of Nature, in Word and Image by Michelle Lovric
Got this from my library........lovely paintings, and great poetry and quotes......
anyone else have great books to add to this thread.....besides Arnosky books? 
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The Tree in the Ancient Forestby Carol Reed Jones and Christopher Canyon. This is a cumulative story poem, like the House that Jack Built, but it is about a giant tree and all who inhabit it. Beautiful illustrations. Informative glossary of critter names at the end.
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold.
It is a wonderful example of nature jounaling and natural history, and one of my all-time favorite books.
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Found these this summer:
The Ever-Living Tree: The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood by Linda Viera...only $1 at a library sale on the coast!!!! I JUST LOVE THIS BOOK!!
and.........My Favorite Tree by Diane Iverson.....picked this up at Sequoia National Park, after I visited Willa........I am sure it is at their website store.
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!! So informative..........and fun, too!
I wonder if we need to do a forest unit study again......it has been awhile.....this looks like fun!
shawna........ready to pack your little ones in a double back pack??? 
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lapazfarm wrote:
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold.
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OH>>>>>I LOVED this book!!! we borrowed it from the ILL years ago.....it is on my list of want-to-own-my-own-copy of books
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We have Once There Was a Tree which is illustrated by Gennady Spirin, a new favorite of ours. We also really like What's Under the Log? ~ it's perfect for little hands, and fun to bring along on a walk in the woods. We also refer to A Field Guide to Eastern Forests.
And though I don't have it, The Gift of a Tree looks beautiful (and my library has a copy so I'm going to pick it up this weekend!)
We also have a nice collection of animal finger puppets (like these) and during creative spurts, I tell little "stories from the woods" using the various puppets. I haven't done this in a while and I really should get back to it!
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I'm sorry to go on ~ I love this topic  ~ but I just remembered another favorite forest book:
How the Forest Grew
It is such a sweet little book with lovely pencil sketches. It is all about the stages and variety of life in a Massachusetts forest, but as it says on the opening page, "It could be about a forest anywhere because most forests grow the same way."
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C is for Conifer from this album inspired our study of trees. The one son rocks madly to it when it comes on in the car. 
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We enjoyed While A Tree Was Growing. It shares an added bonus of a timeline in the story.
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Topic: Forests: Picture books& other resources
