World Nature Conservation Day 2021

World Nature Conservation Day 2021

Books that help a child * Wonder * Understand * Care * Save * 

What is nature? Is it a rainbow or the mountain ranges? The sky or the seas?

The plants or peacocks? Bananas or bees? Where is it, can I see it?

Lastly, where is it going and why should we save it?

We turn off lights for an hour every Earth Day. We’ve switched from plastic to all-natural

paper or cloth bags, and to paper or metal straws. We’ve learnt to carry our own water

bottles wherever we go... All small steps to reduce, reuse, recycle, in the hope of leaving a

better world for our children. But how do we best prepare them to sustain ecosystems, to

preserve wildlife and biodiversity from degradation in their future?

How do we teach them to nurture nature, to be “good ancestors”?

Celebrating World Nature Conservation Day (28 July),

here are a wide range of books that take children of all ages on a journey through sky

and sea, land and rivers, to make friends with nature, to meet animals,

Picture books for 3-6 years

1. Ira the Little Dolphin

2. Sultan's Forest

3. Unhappy Moon

4. Dinaben and the Lions of Gir – Bilingual

5. Takdir the Tiger Cub – Bilingual

 6. Lai-Lai the BabyElephant – Bilingual

7. Baby Beboo Bear – Bilingual

 8. The Seed – Bilingual

9. Let's Catch the Rain

10. Let's Plant Trees

11. Best Friends – Bilingual

12. Salim Mamoo and Me

13. Big Rain

14. The Colour Thief

15. I Will Save My Land

16. Malu Bhalu

17. Race of the Rivers

18. Ekki Dokki

19. Kolaba

 

Picture books for 7-8 years

The wisdom of folk tales, the thrill of real encounters or the power of imagination… these stories speak of living in harmony through a web of interdependence, and celebrate the whimsy and wonder of the natural world.

1. A Bhil Story

2. Birdywood Buzz

3. The Great Birdywood Games

4. Bulbuli's Bamboo

5. Putul and the Dolphins

6. Magnificent Makhna

7. The King and the Kiang

 8. The Magical Fish

9. Black Panther

10. The Mountain that Loved a Bird

11. Out of the Way! Out of the Way!

12. The Spider's Web

13. Dancing Bees

14. Gulla and the Hangul

15. In Bon Bibi's Forest

16. Mama, What is the Night?

17. I Will Save My Land

18. I Planted a Seed...

19. The Gular flower

20. Sabri’s Colours

 

Fiction for 8-12 years

In the way we choose to live and treat each other – Nature and People – It’s our world to care for and protect!

1. Water Stories from Around the World

2. Andaman s Boy

3. The Forbidden Forest

4. Trouble in the Forbidden Forest

5. Adventures of the Humongoose Family

6. Aditi Adventures: The Antarctic mission

7. Kabir the weaver poet

8. That summer at Kalagarh

9. One World

10. Sorry Best Friend

 

Non-fiction for 8-12 years

Art or Science, it’s all about  – looking, seeing , feeling, nurturing and being alive to empathy.

1. The House that Sonabai Built

2. The Coral Tree

3. Riddle of the Ridley

4. Jagadish and the talking plant

 

Young Adult

A powerful call to stop the hurt and heal the wounds from years of plundering the earth and the people to whom it belongs.

Oonga