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Book Giving and Wish List

Below is a brief list of titles that will be very useful for use in our weekend programming. The books are available in both paperback and hard cover versions and in some cases in reinforced library bindings. Usable books from second-hand bookstores would be great!

• Wallace, M. D. America's Prairies and Grasslands: Guide to plants and animals. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishers ISBN 1-55591-992-8; $16.95, childrens' shelves
  
• Any of the following from the Golden Guide series, (revised), now published by St. Martin's Press: Wildflowers, Insects, Trees, Seashells of the World Price; $6.95 ea., childrens' shelves
  
• Kittinger, J.S. Birds of North America East: Kids' field guides DK/Smithsonian, 2001 ISBN 0-7894-7899-4 $9.95 0-7894-7898-6 (library binding), childrens' shelves
• Tekiela, Stan. Birds of Iowa: Field guide. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications ISBN 1-885061-92-7; $12.95 with nature guides
• Lindsey, Terence. Garden Birds. (from National Geographic: My first Pocket Guide series) ISBN 7922-6572-6; $7.95 childrens' shelves
• Any of the following from the series Peterson Field Guide for Young Naturalists: Songbirds, Backyard Birds, Birds of Prey; $5.95 ea. children' shelves
• Any of the following from the series Peterson First Guides: Mammals, Butterflies and Moths, Insects; $5.95 ea. with nature guides
• National Wildlife Federation. Digging Into Dinosaurs. 1988. McGraw Hill Compnies, Inc. ISBN 0-7910-4831-4. from the Ranger Rick's NatureScope series.
• Sheehan, K. & Waidner, M. Earth Child: Games, stories, activities, experiments & ideas about living lightly on planet Earth. 1994. Council Oak Books. ISBN 0-933031-93-9
• Petrash, C. Earthways: Simple environmental activities for young people.1992. Gryphon House, Inc. ISBN 0-87659-156-X
• Simons, R. Recyclopedia: Games, science equipment and crafts from from recycled materials. HoughtonMifflin Co. ISBN 0-395-24390-4

We will be very grateful to anyone who can donate new books to our education collection! Several options are in planning for this. We may arrange with local book stores to maintain a list of titles needed in our collection. The first priority is for field guides for young people: areas like wildflowers and/or woodland flowers, trees, birds, mammals, and amphibians and reptiles.