A Planet Full of Plastic

By Neal Layton

This non-fiction book can be used to teach students about plastic waste.

Topic: Waste

Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean Up

By Miah Madden

This story can be used to teach students about plastic pollution. 

Topic: Waste

Here Comes the Garbage Barge 

By Jonah Winter 

This book can be used to teach students about the stages of waste disposal.

Topic: Waste

Journey of the Sea Turtle

By Mark Wilson

This story can be used to teach students about ocean pollution and the life-cycle of turtles. 

Topic: Oceans, Waste, Conservation

Like the Ocean We Rise

By Nicola Edwards & Sarah Wilkins

A book about climate change. It shows students how groups and individuals can work together to make a difference. 

Topic: Climate change, Taking action

One Plastic Bag

By Isatou Ceesay

This picture book can be used to teach students about re-using plastic waste.

Topic: Waste, Reusing items, Taking action

The All New Must Have Orange 430

By Michael Speechley

This story can be used in a lesson about recycling, up-cycling, and re-purposing.

Topic: Waste, Recycling

The Last Straw

By Susan Hood

This book of poems can be used to teach students about reducing plastic waste.

Topic: Waste, Reducing waste

The Old Man and The Penguin

By Julie Abery & Pierre Pratt

This story can be used to teach students about conservation, and the hazards of oil spills.

Topic: Oil spills, Conservation

The Patchwork Bike

By Maxine Beneba Clarke

This story can be used in a lesson about recycling, up-cycling, and re-purposing.

Topic: Recycling, Upcycling, Waste

Walk of the Whales

By Nick Bland

This story can be used to teach students about ocean pollution.

Topic: Waste, Oceans

The Windy Farm

By Doug MacLeod

This book can be used in lessons about sustainable sources of power. 

Topic: Renewable energy

The Mess That We Made

By Michelle Lord

This story can be used to teach about the impact of trash and plastic on the ocean and marine life.

Topic: Ocean pollution, Marine life

The Hidden Forest

By Jeannie Baker

This story can be used to teach about the ocean plants and their value to our world.

Topic: Ocean, Marine life

The Curious Garden

By Peter Brown

This story can be used to teach changing seasons, which naturally lends itself to discussions about natural sequences and cycles.

Topic: Nature

Compost Stew

By Mary McKenna Siddals

This story can teach students to compost and help them develop life-long habits to protect the Earth.

Topic: Compost

Save the Scraps

By Bethany Stahl

It tells the story of two children who learn how to compost with the help of their wiggly worm friend.

Topic: Compost

Green Green

By Baldev Lamba & Marie Lamba

This story can be used to teach about the importance of community, environmental stewardship, and the transformative power of gardening.

Topic: Community & Gardening

Why Should I Recycle?

By Jen Green

This story can be used to teach why recycling is so important and what we can do every day to help protect Planet Earth.

Topic: Waste management, Recycling