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A reading list for adults, young adults, and children to learn more about why we need Earth Day, and how to enjoy it…

 

 

Celebrate Earth Day in Redlands, Saturday, April 22

♥ Participate in your choice of a variety (dozens!) of hands-on events around town sponsored by ANCA (Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action) and many other Redlands environmental organizations. Refer to www.redlandsearthday.org/ for more information, and to register.

♥ Donate books in front of Smiley Library on Earth Day, and at Redlands Community Center, from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. “The 3 R’s: Recyle & Reuse *Books* to Reduce the Carbon Fooprint!”

♥ Learn more about why so many have been observing Earth Day since 1970; take a look at “A Brief History of Earth Day,” a short, enlightening PowerPoint presentation by ANCA member Andy Green.

Enjoy the Great Outdoors in a state park in honor of Earth Day ~

Visit participating California state parks for free with your library card by checking out a vehicle’s day-use state park pass!

• California State Library Parks Pass / California State Library, Parks Pass Program, 2022

Follow any of these links to our catalog to read more about it, and to place on hold.

READING LIST OF BOOKS FOR ADULTS:

National Parks, State Parks, and other wilderness areas

Activists, Innovators, & Inspiration

Animals & Plants

Climate Change, Global Warming, and the effects on our environment

Environmental Toxins

• Life without plastic : the practical step-by-step guide to avoiding plastic to keep your family and the planet healthy / Plamondon, Chantal, 2017
• Toxic legacy : how the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment / Seneff, Stephanie, 2021
• ContamiNation : my quest to survive in a toxic world / Jenkins, McKay, 2016
• Our daily poison : from pesticides to packaging, how chemicals have contaminated the food chain and are making us sick / Robin, Marie-Monique, 2014
• Silent spring / Carson, Rachel. Published 1962.

Hope

Mitigation, Preparation

Plastics & Recycling

• Can I recycle this? : a guide to better recycling and how to reduce single-use plastics / Romer, Jennie, 2021**
• Plastic : an autobiography / Cobb, Allison, 2021
• Living without plastic : more than 100 easy swaps for home, travel, dining, holidays, and beyond / Allen, Brigette, 2021
• **For more information on recycling in the City of Redlands, visit the City’s website,  https://www.cityofredlands.org/solid-waste-recycling-services

Pollinators: why birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are vital to our environment

• 100 plants to feed the monarch : create a healthy habitat to sustain North America’s most beloved butterfly : the Xerces Society / Lee-Mader, Eric, 2021
• Where have all the bees gone? : pollinators in crisis / Hirsch, Rebecca E., 2020
• How to attract birds to your garden / Rouse, Dan, 2020
• The pollinator victory garden : win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening : how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators / Eierman, Kim, 2020
• Our native bees : North America’s endangered pollinators and the fight to save them/ Embry, Paige, 2018
• 100 plants to feed the bees : provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive / Lee-Mäder, Eric, 2016

The Science: let’s figure this out

• The physics of climate change / Krauss, Lawrence M., 2021
• Unsettled : what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters / Koonin, Steven E., 2021
• Brave green world : how science can save our planet / Forman, Christopher, 2021
• The field guide to citizen science : how you can contribute to scientific research and make a difference / Cavalier, Darlene, 2020
• Our once and future planet : restoring the world in the climate change century / Woodworth, Paddy, 2013
• Unstoppable : harnessing science to change the world / Nye, Bill, 2015

Trees & Forests

MAGAZINES

• Audubon / National Audubon Society, <1953-current>
• California today / Planning & Conservation League (Calif.) <1973-1980>
• Environment / Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, <1993-current>
• The Mother earth news / The Mother Earth News, Inc., <1973-current>
• National Geographic / National Geographic Society (U.S.), <1905-current>
• Natural history / American Museum of Natural History, <1921-current>
• Sierra [serial (magazine)] : the Sierra Club bulletin / Sierra Club, <1985-current>

YOUNG ADULT

Fiction

• My Chemical Mountain – Vacco, Corina (YA VAC)
• The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love – Sheldon, Dyan (YA SHE)
• Salvage – Duncan, Alexandra (YA DUN)

Nonfiction

• An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming – Gore, Al 363.738 G66in
• Where Have All the Bees Gone? Pollinators in Crisis – Hirsch, Rebecca E. 595.79 H615w

Graphic Novels

• How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial – Cunningham, Daryl 001.9 C917h

CHILDREN

Picture Books

• Peppa Pig and the Earth Day Adventure – (JE PEP)
• Be a Tree – Gianferrari, Maria (JE GIA)
• Arthur Turns Green – Brown, Marc Tolon (JE BRO)
• Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration – Capucilli, Alyssa Satin (JE CAP)
• Dear Earth…: From Your Friends in Room 5 – Dealey, Erin (JE DEA)
• These Seas Count! – Formento, Alison (JE FOR)
• A Small History of a Disagreement – Fuentes, Claudio (JE FUE)
• We Are Water Protectors – Lindstrom, Carole (JE LIN)
• Ballyhoo Bay – Sierra, Judy (JE SIE)
• Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green – Spinelli, Eileen (JE SPI)
• Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Stand to Save the World – Tucker Zoe (JEFO TUC)
• Just a Dream – Van Allsburg, Chris (JEFO VAN)
• Earth Day, Birthday – Wright, Maureen (JE WRI)
• My Forever Dress – Ziefert, Harriet (JE ZIE)

Chapter Books

• Willodeen – Applegate, Katherine (J APP)
• Violet Mackerel’s Pocket Protest – Branford, Anna (J BRA)
• Watch Out World, Rosy Cole is Going Green: Rosy Cole’s Bright, Though Not Exactly Popular, Ideas About Garbage, Worms, Dirt, and Other Gifts of Nature – Greenwald, Shelia (J GRE)
• Scat – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
• Flush – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
• Hoot – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
• Save the Earth – Klein, Abby (J KLE)
• Marty McGuire Digs Worms! – Messner Kate (J MES)

Mysteries

• Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot – Sharmat, Andrew (J M SHA)
• Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery – Adler, David (J M ADL)
• Earth Day Escapade – Keene, Carolyn (J M KEE)

Graphic Novels

• Luz Sees the Light – Davila, Claudia 741.5 D289L
• Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming – Collins, Terry 363.738 C696g

Nonfiction

• The Wild World Handbook: How Adventurers, Artists, Scientists – and YOU – Can Protect the Earth’s Habitats – Debbink, Andrea 333.95 D35w
• It Starts with a Bee – Gallagher, Aimee 595.79 G135i
• How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other – Klein, Naomi with Stefoff, Rebecca 363.738 K672h
• Earth Day – Cella, Clara 394.262 C33e
• Earth Day – Hooray – Murphy, Stuart 513 M597e
• What a Waste – French, Jess 363.72 F888w
• The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs – Messner, Kate 333.95 M564b
• Caillou: Every Drop Counts – Johanson, Sarah Margaret 333.91 J599c
• Sustainable Water Resources – Rooney, Anne 363.61 R674s
• One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist – Llewellyn, Bridget McGovern 363.7 L77o
• Our House in on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet – Winter, Jeanette 333.7 W734o
• Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle – Fyvie, Erica 363.72 F999t
• Join the No-Plastic Challenge! A First Book of Reducing Waste – Ritchie, Scot 363.72 R51j
• The Plastic Problem – Salt, Rachel 363.72 Sa37p
• Discover It Yourself: Pollution and Waste – 363.73 D631
• Taming Plastic: Stop the Pollution – Bates, Albert 363.738 B318t
• Our Environment: Everything You Need to Know – Pasquet, Jacques 577 P265o
• Climate Change: The Science Behind Melting Glaciers and Warming Oceans, with Hands-On Activities – Sneideman, Joshua 551.6 Sn26c
• If Bees Disappeared – Williams, Lily 595.79 W673i

Easy Readers

• Earth Day – McNamara, Margaret (JER MCN)

Spanish

• El Guardian del Pantano – Garrett, Ann (JSPE GAR)
• Calentamiento Global – Buchanan, Shelly (JSP 363.738 B851c)

A.K. Smiley Library invites you to an encore performance of Music of the West African Kora, presented by Sean Gaskell, on Tuesday, January 17 at 6:30pm at the Contemporary Club.

This program will include a performance and educational demonstration on the kora, an ancient 21-stringed harp with a long neck. The kora is traditionally played by West African oral historians known as Griots, also known as Jalis or Jelis. The soft, melodic sound of the kora often stands in contrast to the themes of the songs, which recall times of war, hardship, love, and loss throughout the history of Mande society.

Sean Gaskell has been studying and playing the kora since first hearing a performance in 2006. What began as curiosity led to a global education and busy career. He has spent time in Brikama, Gambia, West Africa, learning from traditional kora masters Moriba Kuyateh and his father, the late Malamini Jobarteh. Mr. Gaskell has presented adult, youth, and family programs at over 350 libraries and a multitude of K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and assisted living facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

This will be Mr. Gaskell’s third time playing for Smiley Library, and it’s a program you won’t want to miss. It’s not often one has the opportunity to experience the music of this rare instrument and the fascinating history told through its songs. Families are welcome and no registration is required.