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Color Your World...Green!

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Green is nature.   Green is the grass beneath our feet or the leaves in the trees above our head.  Green feeds us with healthy beans, peas, lettuce, pears and grapes.  Green hops like a frog and slithers like a snake.  Green is all around us so spend some time noticing the green in your world.

 

 

Play Time

Franklin the Turtle Anne of Green Gables
   
Sesame Street Crocodile Hunter

 

Craft Time

Reptile Crafts
 
Frog Crafts
 
More Frog Crafts
 
Leaf Activities
 
Dinosaur Crafts

 

Reading Time

Picture Books | Fiction | Nonfiction

Picture Books

Stan and Jan Berenstain.  The Berenstain Bears and the

Green-Eyed Monster   Sister is overcome with jealousy when Brother gets a shiny new ten-speed bike for his birthday.

Brian Patten.  The Blue & Green Ark:  an Alphabet for Planet Earth

A tribute to planet Earth in which each letter of the alphabet celebrates the many wonders of the world, with illustrations by eleven award-winning artists.

DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan.  City Green

Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden.

Margaret Wise Brown.  The Color Kittens

While the color kittens are trying to make green paint, their mixing leads to pink, orange, and purple.

Pegeen Snow.  Eat Your Peas, Louise

Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas.

Harriet Ziefert.  Egad, Alligator

An innocent young alligator tries to make friends with various people and animals, but they all run away, shouting, " Egad alligator !"

Alice Walker.  Finding the Green Stone

After saying unkind things to family and friends, Johnny loses both his green stone and his interest in life, and he recovers them only when he discovers love in his heart.

Priscilla Burris.  Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five frogs eat bugs as they sit on a log, but one by one they jump into the cool pool until all are gone.

Marion Dane Bauer.  Frog's Best Friend

Frog learns how to share his best friend, Turtle, with the other animals.

Ed Emberley.  Go Away, Big Green Monster!

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

Nicholas Heller.  Goblins in Green

A succession of goblins, from Annabelle in an amber blouse to Zelda in a zebra anorak, presents the letters of the alphabet.

Gabrielle Woolfitt.  Green

Text and photographs describe common things that are green, including trees, fruit, and parrots.

Dayal Kaur Khalsa.  Green Cat

A brother and sister complain that sharing a room makes it so crowded, but a mysterious green cat shows them what a really crowded room is.

Melinda Luke.  The Green Dog

While pet-sitting, Teddy uses science to solve a mystery.

Dr. Seuss.  Green Eggs and Ham

Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham.

Yumi Heo.  The Green Frogs:  a Korean Folktale Retold

A folktale about two green frogs who always disobey their mother, explaining why green frogs cry out whenever it rains.

Tedd Arnold.  Green Wilma

Waking up with a frog-like appearance, Wilma proves disruptive at school as she searches for some tasty flies.

Leo Lionni.  The Greentail Mouse

The field mice become so involved in their Mardi Gras masquerade they forget it is all in fun.

Janet Reich.  Gus and the Green Thing

Unhappy with his gray existence in a gray city, Gus follows a green thing and discovers a new world of life and growth.

Cynthia Rylant.  Henry and Mudge in the Green Time

For Henry and his big dog Mudge , summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big green hill.

W. Awdry.  Henry, the Green Engine

Henry the Green Engine stars in his own shaped board book.

Tony Johnston.  Iguana Brothers:  a Tale of Two Lizards

Dom and Tom, the iguana brothers, eat flowers, pretend to be dinosaurs, and discover that they can be best friends.

Keith Baker.  Little Green

A young boy paints the flight of a hummingbird as it zips, loops, and zigzags around his garden.

Keith Baker.  Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green

A loving alligator couple enjoy going camping, eating pancakes, and visiting the county fair.

Judith Caseley.  Mr. Green Peas

Norman is sad because he's the only one in his nursery school class who doesn't have a pet, until he gets the most outrageous pet in the world.

Patricia Casey.  One Day at Wood Green Animal Shelter

It is a very busy day at Wood Green Animal Shelter, where the workers take care of a variety of animals that need their help.

Rachel Isodora. Over the Green Hills

Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi.

Margaret Read MacDonald.  Pickin' Peas

Because a pesky rabbit picks peas from her garden, a little girl catches it and puts it in a box, but that doesn't solve the problem.

Louise Gikow.  Red Hat, Green Hat

As Leona wanders around in her two-colored hat , she causes quite a commotion.

Cari Best.  Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

After taking the train downtown, Lizzie spends the day at the public library, helping her mother who is a children's librarian.

Laura McGee Kvasnosky.  See You Later, Alligator!

A new school can be scary, but the kids at River Bottom School make it easier to say good-bye to Mom and Dad.

Libba Moore Gray.  Small Green Snake

Despite his mother's warning not to wander, Small Green Snake wiggles away to investigate the new sound from across the garden wall.

Linda Glaser.  Tanya's Big Green Dream

After Tanya decides to plant a tree for her Earth Day project, her only problems are getting the money to buy it and finding a place to put it.

C. Z. Guest.  Tiny Green Thumbs

Tiny Bun and his grandmother plan, plant, and grow a vegetable garden. Includes step-by-step instructions for planting carrots, beans, cucumbers, corn, and sunflowers.

Fiction

Paula Danziger.  Amber Brown is Green With Envy

Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.

L. M. Montgomery.  Anne of Green Gables

Anne , an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Betsy Byars.  The Blossoms and the Green Phantom

Disasters befall the Blossom family as Pap falls into a dumpster and can't get out, Junior tries desperately to make a success of his secret invention, and Vern dreads letting a new friend meet his unusual family.

Carol Ellis.  The Case of the Green Ghost

Called in to investigate a case of stolen popsicle sticks, Mary-Kate and Ashley follow up on a few cold leads. Then, the twins discover a trail leading right to a haunted house.

L. M. Boston.  The Children of Green Knowe

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver.  Day of the Iguana

When Hank takes apart the television cable box, he thinks he's found the perfect science fair project--until his sister's pet iguana lays 18 eggs in the disassembled cable box.

Jon Buller.  Felix and the Four Hundred Frogs

Felix, who has a gift for mental communication, is enlisted by the Frog Princess to help recover her magic moonstone from a mean neighbor's garden.

Amy Hest.  The Great Green Notebook of Katie Roberts:  Who Just

Turned 12 on Monday   In a series of journal entries, letters, pictures, and drawings, Katie relates her feelings about her mother, baby brothers, new friends, school, boys, the Italian immigrant she tutors, and growing up.

Jill Paton Walsh. The Green Book

As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

Susan Cooper.  Green Boy

Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.

Suzanne Fisher Staples.  The Green Dog:  a Mostly True Story

During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.  The Green Toenails Gang

Wealthy Olivia Sharp, agent for secrets, uncovers several secrets on a trip to Carmel, California to help a friend become a member of an exclusive club.

Odo Hirsch.  Hazel Green

Enterprising Hazel Green tries to convince the city to allow children to march in the annual Frogg Day parade.

Suzy Kline.  Horrible Harry and the Green Slime

Follows the school activities of second-graders, Harry and Doug, as they participate in a secret mission to celebrate "Charlotte's Web," learn how to make green slime, and put on a skit warning about the dangers of smoking.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.  Jade Green:  a Ghost Story

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

Judy Cox.  Mean, Mean Maureen Green

With help from Adam, a boy in her third grade class, Lilley gains enough confidence to stand up to the school bus bully, Mean Maureen Green.

Cynthia Rylant.  Old Town in the Green Groves:  Laura Ingalls

Wilder's Lost Little House Years   After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year- old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

Judy Blume.  The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo

Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.

George Edward Stanley.  The Secret of the Green Skin

With the help of their third-grade teacher and classmates, Noelle and Todd why people are getting sick after eating at the new restaurant in town.

Nonfiction

Kate McDonald.  The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook

Inspired by L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, this cookbook combines easy step-by-step recipes with charming watercolors of Anne and her friends and quotations from three of the popular Anne books.

Bill Gutman.  Becoming Best Friends with Your Iguana, Snake, or

Turtle   Part of the Pet Friends series, this book is a practical way for children and their parents to learn about all types of pets, what makes them special, and what you'd rather know about their care before you bring them home.

Joni Phelps Hunt.  A Chorus of Frogs

A close up look at frogs.

Ed Emberley.  Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book

Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

R. Conrad Stein.  Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys

Discusses the facts and tall tales about Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, who, along with Benedict Arnold, led the Green Mountain Boys in capturing Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775.

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.  Flashy Fantastic Rain Forest Frogs

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, reproduction, and habitat of frogs that live in the rain forest.

Diane L. Burns.  Frogs, Toads and Turtles

Describes the physical characteristics and habitats of a variety of different frogs, toads, and turtles. Includes related activities and scrapbook pages.

Jan Goldberg.  Green Berets:  the U. S. Army Special Forces

A look at the Special Forces, better known as the Green Berets , including their purpose, history, missions, requirements, training, and equipment.

Marcia Sewall.  The Green Mist

A retelling of a Lincolnshire, England, tale, probably eighteenth-century, in which a dying child is made well by the spring rituals intended to placate the mischievous beings hiding in the earth.

Jenny E. Tesar.  Green Plants

Covers the metabolism, reproduction, and growth of green plants.

Laurie M. Carlson.  Green Thumbs:  a Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor

and Outdoor Gardening   Teach budding gardeners what it takes to make things grow with fun activities that require only readily available materials.

Vivian French.  Growing Frogs

A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.

W. P. Mara.  Iguanas

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the iguana lizard.

Gail Gibbons.  Nature's Green Umbrella:  Tropical Rain Forests

Describes the climatic conditions of the rain forest as well as the different layers of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem.

Trudi Strain Trueit.  Turtles

Timeless turtles -- Home in a shell -- A turtle's senses -- Family life -- Turtle rescue.

Jane Yolen.  Welcome to the Green House

Describes the tropical rainforest and the life found there.

Elaine Landau.  Your Pet Iguana

The green iguana -- Picking out an iguana -- Your iguana 's home -- Feeding -- A healthy iguana -- You and your iguana.