Exploring Nature Booklist

Prepared for Friends of Webster Trails by the Webster Public Library

Picture Books

  • Meeting Trees – by Robert Hynes (identification) 1997
  • One, Two, Grandpa Loves You – by Shelly Becker/Dan Yaccarino (camping) 2023
  • Explorers of the Wild – by Cale Atkinson (hiking/exploring nature) 2016
  • Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees – by Jim Arnosky (identification) 1992
  • The Camping Trip – by Jennifer K. Mann (hiking/camping) 2020

Chapter Books

  • Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson – by Ann E. Burg/Sophie Blackall (exploring nature) 2024
  • My Side of the Mountain trilogy – by Jean Craighead George (survival) 2000
  • 15 Secrets to Survival – by Natalie D. Richards (camping/survival) 2023
  • Alvin ho: Allergic to camping, hiking & other natural disasters – by Lenore look/Leuyen Pham (camping) 2009

Graphic Novels

  • Survival Scout: Lost in the Mountains – by Maxwell Eaton III (backpacking/survival) 2023
  • Frogs: Awesome amphibians – by Liz Prince (identification) 2023
  • Bats: Learning to fly – by Falynn Kock (identification) 2017
  • Wildful – by Kengo Kurimoto (exploring nature) 2024
  • Climate Changed: A personal journey through the science – by Philippe Squarzoni (research) 2012
  • Wildlife Anatomy: Lives & features of wild animals around the world – by Julia Rothman (identification) 2023

Narrative Nonfiction

  • A Walk in the Woods – by Bill Bryson (hiking/backpacking) 1998
  • The World Without Us – by Alan Weisman (speculative) 2007
  • Islands of Abandonment: Nature rebounding in post-human landscape – by Cal Flyn (exploring nature) 2021
  • The Control of Nature – by John McPhee (history/sociology) 1989
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, teachings of plants – by Robin Wall Kimmerer (research/history/sociology/exploring nature) 2013