Books for World Wildlife Day

By Coll Rowe | February 29 2024 | Science

For World Wildlife Day on March 3rd, we’re sharing books to help educate students on the amazing diversity of wildlife, and encourage them to appreciate and protect our planet. Find a collection of Wildlife Titles here.

An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
978-0-593-13325-5
A tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong
$20.00 US
Aug 29, 2023
Paperback
480 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks

Better Living Through Birding
Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
978-0-593-24238-4
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up at the birds
$28.00 US
Jun 13, 2023
Hardcover
304 Pages
Random House

Singing with Elephants
978-0-593-20670-6
A powerful novel in verse from Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning author Margarita Engle about the friendship between a young girl and the poet Gabriela Mistral that leads to healing and hope for both of them.
$8.99 US
May 30, 2023
Paperback
240 Pages
Viking Books for Young Readers

Life Underground
Tunnel into a World of Wildlife
978-0-7440-8472-6
An illustrated journey through nature’s unseen habitats, revealing the curious creatures that live under the earth
$19.99 US
Nov 07, 2023
Hardcover
32 Pages
DK Children

The Line Tender
978-0-7352-3161-0
Heartbreaking but also filled with wit and hope, The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began. She must follow the sharks.
$8.99 US
Apr 21, 2020
Paperback
384 Pages
Puffin Books

Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
978-0-525-56599-4
From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.
$18.00 US
Jun 21, 2022
Paperback
384 Pages
Vintage

The Eyes and the Impossible
(Newbery Medal Winner)
978-1-5247-6420-3
From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.
$19.99 US
May 09, 2023
Hardcover
256 Pages
Knopf Books for Young Readers

Animal
The Definitive Visual Guide
DK
978-0-7440-6318-9
Now in a new edition, this landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the latest scientific knowledge.
$60.00 US
Oct 11, 2022
Hardcover
632 Pages
DK

A Most Remarkable Creature
The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
978-1-101-91154-9
Here is an enthralling account of the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
$20.00 US
Feb 22, 2022
Paperback
400 Pages
Vintage