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General River Books
River Life: A Close-up Look at the Natural World of a River
Barbara Taylor $9.95 ages 4-8
Larger-than-life photographs with clear lables explaining different body parts.
Rivers and Oceans
Barbara Taylor $5.95 (p) ages 5-8
Protecting Rivers & Seas
Kamini Khanduri $4.50 (p) ages 6-9
Eyewitness Series - Pond and River
Eyewitness $16.00
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
Lynne Cherry $14.95 ages 6-11
The history of how the Nashua River went from its original pristine state to becoming
polluted, and then how a group of people worked together to restore it.
Rehabilitation
of Rivers for Fish
prepared by the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission
Water Education Foundation - has many books and maps about water, rivers, deltas.
Amazon River Books
Amazon River Bibliography
An adventure in the Amazon, Cousteau Society, Simon & Schuster, 1992
Amazon Boy, Ted Lewin, Macmillan 1993
Amazon, Peter Lourie, Boyds Mills
Connecticut River Books
The Complete Boating Guide to the Connecticut River
by: Connecticut River Watershed Council, 235 pages with Photos, Illus, & Maps
This guide includes information on fishing and birding, historical events, places of
interest and trivia.
Erie Canal
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
by: Cheryl Harness, Macmillan Books for Young Readers, New York, 1995
This book, with detailed water color illustrations, tells the history of the building of
the canal, and describes the pageantry of it's grand opening.
The Erie Canal
by Samuel Adams, Random House, New York, 1953
The Erie Canal
by: Ralph Andrist, Troll Assoicates, Mahwah, NJ, 1964
Erie Canal
by Pete Lourie, Boyds Mills Press
The Erie Canal
by : Peter Spier, Doubleday, New York, 1970
Everglades Books
Bibliography
about Florida's "river of grass" including -Everglades by Jean Craighead George - compiled by Children Everglades Ecotourism Books
Everglades: Buffalo Tiger and the River of Grass. by Peter Lourie.
The Everglades: River of Grass, Marjory Stoneman Douglass, 1988, Pineapple Press
This is the classic book on the subject of the Glades. Not a kid's book, but kids can read it. When I approached Ms. Douglas a few years ago, she was 100 years old. I told her I was going to write a children's book about the Everglades. She looked up and me and said, "What for? They can read my book."
Forever Island and Allapattah, by Patrick D Smith. Pineapple Press. Sarasota, FlA.
Two novels about the Everglades for kids.
Forever Island tells the story of Charlie Jumper, an old Seminole Indian who clilngs to the ancient ways and teaches them to his grandson. When their simple swamp existence is threatened by a development corporation, Charlie decides to fight back.
Allapattah is also a novel of a Seminole in the Everglades. It's a story about Toby Tiger, a young Indian in despair at having to live in the white man's world. "Allapattah" means crocodile--a creature which becomes Toby's obsession and he must wrestle it to set himwelf free.
Both novels are about the encroachments of the white man's version of "civilization" on the Everglades, the unique natural area of south Florida.
Lostman's River by Cynthia DeFelice (Macmillan, 1994) and paperback (Avon, 1995).
Set in the early 1900s, a thirteen-year old boy encounters vicious hunters whose actions
toward wildlife threatens to destroy the Everglades ecosystem.
The Talking Earth, Jean Craighead George
Doubting the legends of her Seminole people, Billie Wind goes out into the Everglades
alone. In the wilderness, she discovers that she must listen to the land and the animals
in order to survive.
Fraser River Books
Mighty River: A
Portrait of the Fraser
by Richard C. Bocking The compelling story of one of the world's great rivers; its
history, biology, current status and future prospects.
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Hudson River Books
Bibliography
of Hudson River Books by Hope Farm Press - (specializing in reprints of older books.)Bibliography of Hudson River
Books by hudsonriver.com
Bibliography of Hudson River Books
by the Desmond-Fish Library, Garrison, NY
Hudson River: An Adventure from the
Mountains to the Sea
by Peter Lourie $15.95 ages 7-10
The Ice Horse by Candace Christiansen, paintings by Thomas Locker. Dial Books,
1993. The story of how blocks of ice were taken from the Hudson River throught the eyes of
a young boy.
Indian Tribes of Hudson's River
Vol I to 1700 -- Vol II 1700-1850 by E.M. Ruttenber
Lighthouses & Legends of the
Hudson
by Ruth Glunt
The Lost Treasure of Captain Kidd by Peter Lourie
Owl's Journey. by Maura D. Shaw. Shawangunk Press Follow the journey of a
pocket-sized stone owl, carved by a Lenape Indian boy in 1609, through four centures as it
travels along the Hudson River in New York State. In each exciting chapter, the stone owl
is discovered by a new owner, a boy or girl to whom the owl brings good luck or cour e in
the thrilling adventures that unfold.
River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down
the Hudson, by Peter Lourie
Riverkeeper
by George Ancona $14.95 ages 6-12
Hudson River Riverkeeper, John Cronin, patrols the river and works as the river's
advocate.
Rondout: A Hudson River Port
by Bob Steuding
This historical book recounts the early days of Dutch settlement of this Hudson River port
to the 19th century and the construction of the Delaware and Hudson Canal to the days of
Kingston Point, and finally to its declining years.
Mississippi River Books
Mississippi River Books, including
guide books by Pat Middleton
Big River Reader - an anthology of
the past four years of articles in Big River, a newsletter about the Upper Mississippi.
Topics include Working, Playiing and Living on the River, River Wildlife, River
Ecology, and History.
The Little Tow-Watchers Guide - a
guide to watching towboats and barges on the Mississippi.
Minn of the Mississippi, written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1951.
Rich in the history and culture and ecology of the great river, this book by the author of
Paddling to the Sea, is the story of Minn the turtle's journey from the source to the
delta. 85 pages.
Huck Finn, Mark Twain
Missouri River Books
In the Path of Louis & Clark:
Traveling the Missouri by Peter Lourie
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Edited by Frank Bergon, Penguin Books, 1989
A Great edition of various entries from the two captains on this Voyage of Discovery. This
book is for kids who want more detail than children's editions of the journals, which
often lack any substance.
People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory,
text by Prince Maximilian zu Wied
Watercolors by Karl Bodmer
(Promontory Press, NY, 1982)
This firsthand account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34,
has wonderful descriptions and watercolors of the Missouri River Indians, the Assiniobins,
the Sioux, the Omahas, the Mandans, the Hidatsa, etc. Plus excellent drawings and
paintings of the river topography and wildlife.
An Indian Winter, by Russell Freedman
1992, Holiday House
A shorter book about the Bodmer-Maximilian expedition of 1833-34 on the Missouri River.
Nashua River Books
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
by Lynne Cherry $14.95 ages 6-11
The history of how the Nashua River went from its original pristine state to becoming
polluted, and then how a group of people worked together to restore it.
Yukon River Books
Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold
Fields of the Klondike, by Peter Lourie
The Gold Rush story
Call of the Wild, Jack London
White Fang, Jack London
Collected Stories, Jack London
Poetry of Robert Service
"The Spell of the Yukon"
"Cremation of Sam McGee" (takes place on the river at Lake Laberge.)
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew." etc. All of them capture the flavor of the gold rush and the stampeders who went down the Yukon River to Dawson, where the Klondike feeds into the Yukon. From there they headed into the hills to get rich.
Other Bibliographies
American Rivers Bibliography - comprehensive and well annotated, mainly books for adults
Bankstreet Bookstore - Water
Schuylkill River - Franklin
Institute site
Fishing News Books - a publisher
of books on rivers and water quality, fisheries and aquacultures
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