Our favourite nature science books
To mark NSERC’s Science Literacy Week 2020, our Education Team has come up with a list of some of our favourite books about biodiversity. We’ve included some titles for young readers, as well as for adults and Facilitators of Learning.
Happy reading to the sound of the autumn rain. Remember to share this list with fellow lovers of the beautiful biodiversity that surrounds us!
For younger readers:
Over and Under the Pond and Over and Under the Rainforest – Kate Messner and Christopher Silas Neal
Water is Water – Miranda Paul and Jason Chin
A Day with Yayah – Nicola I. Campbell
Just a Walk – Jordan Wheeler
1,2,3 Salish Sea: A Pacific Northwest Counting Book – Nikki McClure
Explore the Salish Sea – Joe Gaydos
Hiking Day – Anne Rockwell
Curious Kids Nature Guide: Explore the Amazing Outdoors of the Pacific Northwest – Fiona Cohen
Wolf Island – Celia Godkin
Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth – Rochelle Strauss
We Travel so Far – Laura Knowles
A Whale’s World – Nicholas Read
Island in the Salish Sea – Sheryl McFarlane
A Night at Hideaway Cove – Brenda Boreham
We Are All Connected (series of books, with books for different ecosystems including grasslands, wetlands, ponds and coastal rainforest) – Strong Nations Publishing
For Adults and Facilitators of Learning:
Gathering Moss – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights in Canada and Beyond – various authors
Black Faces White Spaces – Carolyn Finney
Free to Learn – Peter O. Gray
Plants of Coastal British Columbia – Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon
A Field Guide to Coastal Flowers of the Pacific Northwest – Phillipa Hudson
Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene – Alejandro Frid
Feature image: Mya Van Woudenberg
