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- 10 Little Rubber Ducks
- 14 Cows for America
- 101 Ways to Save the Planet
- Abe Lincoln Loved Animals
- A Book of Sleep
- Above All, Be Kind
- A Chimpanzee Tale
- A Christmas Horse Named Cairo
- A Day with No Crayons
- A Dazzling Display of Dogs
- A Garden for Pig
- A Giraffe Goes to Paris
- A Home for Dakota
- A Home for Dixie
- A House in the Woods
- Alejandro’s Gift
- All About Turkeys
- Allie Gator’s Halloween Hayride
- All in a Day
- All Kinds of Kisses
- All the Awake Animals
- All the Wild Wonders: Poems of Our Earth
- All the World
- A Long Way Away: A Two-Way Story
- A Meal of the Stars: Poems Up and Down
- Amy’s Light
- An Adventure with Billy Bunny
- And Tango Makes Three
- Anh’s Anger
- Animal Aha!
- Animal Babies on the Farm
- Animal Dads
- Animalia
- Animal Poems
- Animal Rights: How You Can Make a Difference
- Animals at Play: Rules of the Game
- Animals Charles Darwin Saw: An Around-the-World Adventure
- Animals Get Scared Too, Just Like You!
- Animals in the House
- Animals that Changed the World
- Animal Watch
- Annie and the Wild Animals
- A Pinky Is a Baby Mouse
- Apple
- Apples, Cherries, Red Raspberries
- Aquaman: Deepwater Disaster
- A Refreshing Look at Renewable Energy with Max Axiom Super Scientist
- Are You Eating Something Green?
- Artist to Artist
- ASPCA: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- A Starlit Snowfall
- A Turkey for Thanksgiving
- Awesome Dawson
- Baby Whales Drink Milk
- Bad Kitty
- Bats at the Beach
- Beachcombing
- Bear-ly There
- Bears Barge In
- Bear’s New Friend
- Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken
- Belly Up
- Benji Bean Sprout Doesn’t Eat Meat
- Berenstains’ A Book
- Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
- Big Bear Hug
- Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potatoes
- Big Cat Conservation
- Billie the Unicorn
- Birthday Zoo
- Biscuit
- Biscuit Finds a Friend
- Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration
- Black Cat
- Blueberries for Sal
- Bob and Shirley: A Tale of Two Lobsters
- Breakfast in the Rainforest
- Bringing In the New Year
- Bronto & the Pterodactyl Eggs
- Buffalo Music
- Bugs by the Numbers
- Bulldog’s Big Day
- Busy Kitties
- Call Me Madame President
- Calvin Can’t Fly: The Bookworm Birdie
- Carrot Soup
- Cassandra’s Angel
- Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Cherry and Olive
- Chicken in the Kitchen
- Chicken Joy on Redbean Road
- Chicken Said Cluck
- Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones
- Chickens to the Rescue
- Chick ‘n’ Pug
- Children Make Terrible Pets
- Chimpanzee Rescue
- Christian, the Hugging Lion
- Christian the Lion
- Christmas Kitten, Home at Last
- City Chickens
- City Dog, Country Frog
- City Life
- Claude and Medea
- Click, Clack, ABC
- Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type
- Cody Greene and the Rainbow Mystery
- Come and Eat!
- Compost It
- Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth
- Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons
- Cooking with Herb: The Vegetarian Dragon
- Countdown to Spring!
- Cow
- Cows Are Vegetarians
- Crazy Hair
- Curious Creatures
- Curious George
- Dance with Me
- Deep in the Jungle
- Deformed Frogs
- Deliverance of Dancing Bears
- Dewey: There’s a Cat in the Library!
- Diary of a Spider
- Diary of a Worm
- Do Animals Have Feelings Too?
- Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
- Dog Blue
- Dog Heaven
- Dog of Discovery: A Newfoundland’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark
- Dogs Have the Strangest Friends & Other True Stories of Animal Feelings
- Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?
- Do Super Heroes Have Teddy Bears?
- Duck at the Door
- Duck on a Bike
- Duck Soup
- Earth Day
- Earth Heroes: Champions of the Ocean
- Earth Heroes: Champions of the Wilderness
- Earth Matters
- Earth Mother
- Easter Parade
- Eat Your Peas
- Eco-Family’s Guide to Going Green
- EcoMazes: 25 Earth Adventures
- Eco-Women
- Eight Days: A Story of Haiti
- Elephants Swim
- Eliza’s Journal
- Emily and Carlo
- Endangered Animals (Faith McNulty)
- Endangered Animals (Flowerpot Press)
- Every-Day Dress-Up
- Eye on the Wild: Cheetah and Gorilla
- Fairly Fairy Tales
- Family Pack
- Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy
- Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day
- Fandango Stew
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Farmer Duck
- Finnegan and Fox, the Ten-Foot Cop
- First Dog Fala
- First Pooch
- Five Lost Chicks
- Flush
- Fly Free!
- Flying Free
- Forever Young
- Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
- Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke
- Freda Stops a Bully
- Fred Eats a Pea
- Fred Stays with Me!
- Free the Worms!
- Friends: The True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships
- From Trash to Treasure
- Fruits of India, Vegetables of India, and Flowers of India
- Gabby and Grandma Go Green
- Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story
- Garlic- Onion- Beet- Spinach- Mango- Carrot- Grapefruit Juice
- Gem
- Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming: An Isabel Soto Investigation
- Giant Steps to Change the World
- Give Us a Chance
- Gobble Gobble
- Going Home: The Mystery of Migration
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
- Good Dog
- Good Dog, Aggie
- Goose’s Story
- Gorilla
- Gowanus Dogs
- Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey
- Gracie, the Lighthouse Cat
- Granny Gomez and Jigsaw
- Granny’s Clan
- Green Guide for Artists
- Grin and Bear It
- Grover’s 10 Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World
- Growing Vegetable Soup
- Grow It Yourself!
- Guess How Much I Love You
- Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg
- Gus, the Pilgrim Turkey
- Hachiko Waits
- Hairy Hezekiah
- Hands: Growing Up to Be an Artist
- Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
- Happy, Healthy Ajay
- Happy Thanksliving!
- Harmony on the Farm
- Harry by the Sea
- Have You Seen My Duckling?
- Hello, Baby!
- Hello, Baby Beluga
- Henrietta
- Henrietta and the Golden Eggs
- Henry Helps Plant a Garden
- Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
- Herb the Vegetarian Dragon
- Here Comes the Garbage Barge
- Here Come the Humpbacks!
- Hero Cat
- Heroes of the Environment
- Hey, Little Ant
- Hilda and the Bird Parade
- Hilda Hen’s Search
- Hippopposites
- Hogwash
- Horton Hatches the Egg
- Horton Hears a Who!
- Houndsley and Catina
- How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
- How Do Birds Find Their Way?
- How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Cats?
- How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog)
- How Things Work in the Yard
- How to Heal a Broken Wing
- How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum
- Hubert the Pudge: A Vegetarian Tale
- Huff & Puff
- Hug Time
- Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas
- Hunwick’s Egg
- Hurt Go Happy
- I Am the Dog
- I Can Save the Earth
- I Didn’t Do It!
- I Don’t Want a Cool Cat
- If All the Animals Came Inside
- If Frogs Made Weather
- If You Hopped Like a Frog
- If You Were My Baby: A Wildlife Lullaby
- I Got Two Dogs
- I Heard It from Alice Zucchini
- I’ll Always Be Your Friend
- I Love Animals
- I Love Dogs
- I Love NY Food
- I Love Our Earth // Amo Nuestra Tierra
- I Love Vegetarian Food
- I’m a Manatee
- I’m a Turkey
- I’m a Vegetarian
- I’m Gonna Like Me
- In a Tizzy Over Turkey
- Invisible Alligators
- I Say, You Say Animal Sounds
- I Say, You Say Opposites
- I See a Kookaburra!
- I Spy a Lion: Animals in Art
- It’s a Book
- It’s Raining Cats and Cats
- I Want My Hat Back
- I Want to Be … An Environmentalist
- I Wear My Tutu Everywhere!
- Jasper’s Story: Saving Moon Bears
- Jo MacDonald Had a Garden
- Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond
- Jubela
- Just a Dream
- Just a Second
- Just Like Mama
- Kali’s Song
- Keeping Water Clean
- Kids & Animals
- Kids Can Cook
- Kids Making a Difference for Animals
- Kokeshi Kimonos Book
- Ladybug Girl
- Ladybug Girl and Bingo
- Ladybug Girl at the Beach
- Let’s Save the Animals
- Letting Swift River Go
- Little Colt’s Palm Sunday
- Little Owl Lost
- Little Pea
- Living Green: A Turtle’s Quest for a Cleaner Planet
- Llama Llama Misses Mama
- Look! Another Book!
- Looking for Easter
- Lost and Found: Three Dog Stories
- Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken
- Love That Dog
- Love Your World: How to Take Care of the Plants, the Animals, and the Planet
- Love You When
- Low Song
- Lucky Boy
- Lucky Pigs
- Madeline
- Madeline and the Bad Hat
- Maggie’s Second Chance
- Magic Trash
- Make and Eat Vegetarian Food
- Make Way for Ducklings
- Making Good Choices About Renewable Resources
- Mama, Is It Summer Yet?
- Mama’s Saris
- Manatee Winter
- Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau
- Mardy Murie Did!: Grandmother of Conservation
- Marsupial Sue Presents The Runaway Pancake
- Martha Speaks
- Martín de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
- Mary Had a Little Lamp
- Max Goes to the Recycling Center
- McKenzie’s Frosty Surprise
- Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story
- Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green
- Me … Jane
- Memorial Day Surprise
- Meow Ruff
- Mercy Watson to the Rescue
- Michael Recycle
- Michael Recycle Saves Christmas
- Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs
- Minny’s Dream
- Miss Spider’s Tea Party
- Mister Seahorse
- Mixed Beasts
- Molly’s Organic Garden
- Momo Come Home
- Moo Baa La La La
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
- Moose n’ Me
- More More More, Said the Baby
- Mothers Are Like That
- Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice
- Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
- Munchie Madness
- Mutt Dog!
- My Friend Whale
- My Milk Toof
- My Mom Eats Tofu
- My Uncle Martin’s Big Heart
- Naamah and the Ark at Night
- Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth
- Naturally Wild Musicians
- Nature’s Patchwork Quilt
- Necks Out for Adventure!
- Nighttime Ninja
- Ninety-Five
- Nini Lost and Found
- No Ordinary Olive
- No Place for a Pig
- No Plain Hair!
- Now Hiring: White House Dog
- Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a Miracle
- Ocean Babies
- Of Thee I Sing
- Oh The Things Mommies Do! (What Could Be Better Than Having Two?)
- Oil Spill!
- OK Go
- Old Abe, Eagle Hero
- Old MacDonald Has No Farm … ee-i-anymore
- Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
- Olivia
- Olivia’s Birds: Saving the Gulf
- Once I Was a Cardboard Box But Now I’m a Book About Polar Bears
- One Boy and His Dog
- One Cool Friend
- One Gorilla
- One More Acorn
- One Night in the Everglades
- One Nighttime Sea
- One Red Apple
- One Smart Goose
- Onion Juice, Poop, and Other Surprising Sources of Alternative Energy
- On Parade
- On the Night You Were Born
- Operation Redwood
- Otter and Odder
- Our Choice: Young Readers’ Edition
- Our Farm
- Our Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals
- Out of Breath
- Over in the Forest
- Over in the Jungle
- Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale
- Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch
- Pale Male: Hawk of New York City
- Peaceable Forest: India’s Tale of Kindness to Animals
- Pele’s Forever Home
- Penny and Her Doll
- Penny and Her Marble
- Penny and Her Song
- Peregrine’s Sky
- Perfect the Pig
- Pete and Pickles
- Peter and the Pigeons
- Peter, the Knight with Asthma
- Pet Heroes
- Piggie Pie
- Pigmares: Porcine Poems of the Silver Screen
- Pigs Make Me Sneeze
- Pizza Kittens
- Please Don’t Tease Tootsie
- Pooh: Just Be Nice… to your little friends!
- Presidential Pets
- Princess Candy: The Green Queen of Mean
- Princess Pigsty
- Princess Smartypants
- Pumpkins
- Puppy School
- Purplicious
- Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors
- Rainbows in the River
- Re-Craft
- Recycle This Book
- Redbird at Rockefeller Center
- Red Knit Cap Girl
- Rickie and Henri
- Riding in My Car
- Rights for Animals?
- Run, Turkey, Run
- Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
- Sally’s Great Balloon Adventure
- Santa’s Littlest Helper
- Sato and the Elephants
- Saving Lilly
- Saving the Baghdad Zoo: A True Story of Hope and Heroes
- Say Hello to Zorro!
- Scaredy Squirrel
- Seashells by the Seashore
- She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head
- Shlemiel Crooks
- Silly Tilly’s Thanksgiving Dinner
- Simple Food for Busy Families: The Whole Life Nutrition Approach
- Simple Pleasures
- Six Is So Much Less Than Seven
- Sleepy Time
- Smudge Bunny
- Snow
- Snow School
- Something from Nothing
- So, You Love Animals
- Some Dog!
- Sometimes It’s Turkey, Sometimes It’s Feathers
- Sounds of the Wild: Safari
- Souperchicken
- Speak! Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Dogs
- Standing Up to Mr. O.
- Stellaluna
- Steven the Vegan
- Stickeen: John Muir and the Brave Little Dog
- Stink City
- Struffel
- Stuff!: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Suryia and Roscoe
- Swan Song
- Sweet Dreams
- Swine Divine
- Swirl by Swirl
- Tadpole’s Promise
- Tarra & Bella
- Teeny Tiny Ernest
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
- Thanksgiving in the White House
- That Pesky Rat
- That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals
- The Adventures of an Aluminum Can
- The Adventures of Taxi Dog
- The Animal Rescue Store
- The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales
- The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food
- The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten
- The Best Cat in the World
- The Birchbark Brigade
- The Blues Go Birding at America’s Wild Shores
- The Book About Moomin, Mymble, and Little My
- The Boy Who Loved All Living Things
- The Bugabees: Friends with Food Allergies
- The Cabbage Soup Solution
- The Carrot Seed
- The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs
- The Cats of Roxville Station
- The Chicken Gave It to Me
- The Chimpanzee Kid
- The Cinder-Eyed Cats
- The Curious Garden
- The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History
- The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter
- The Dancing Pig
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
- The Deer in the Wood
- The Digging-est Dog
- The Dog Who Belonged to No One
- The Dog Who Had Kittens
- The Dumpster Diver
- The Earth Book
- The Easter Chick
- The Easter Egg
- The Environment Challenge
- The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)
- The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts
- The Giant Book of Giants
- The Gift of Nothing
- The Girl and the Elephant
- The Giving Tree
- The Good Luck Cat
- The Great Cake Mystery
- The Great Chicken Escape
- The Great Kapok Tree
- The Great Pig Escape
- The Great Pig Search
- The Great Turkey Race
- The Happy Egg
- The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
- The House that Baba Built
- The I’m Not Scared Book
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling
- The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit
- The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook
- The Kids’ Solar Energy Book
- The Lady and the Spider
- The Last Polar Bear
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Little Island
- The Lonely Scarecrow
- The Lorax
- The Lucky Lobsters
- The Magic Finger
- The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge
- The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
- The Magic Squad and the Dog of Great Potential
- The Misadventures of Ori Tang
- The Monsters’ Monster
- The Mountain that Loved a Bird
- The Ocean Story
- The Octonauts: And the Great Ghost Reef
- The One and Only Ivan
- The Owly Books
- The Peace Book
- The People Who Hugged the Trees
- The Perfect Pet
- The Perfect Pumpkin Pie
- The Poky Little Puppy
- The Polar Bears’ Home
- The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy
- The Rabbit Problem
- The Rainbow Bunch
- The Sandwich Swap
- The Secret Life of Mitch Spinach
- The Secret of Saying Thanks
- The Secret World of Whales
- The Snail and the Whale
- The Snail’s Spell
- The Snake Who Was Afraid of People
- The Snow Bear
- The Story of Doctor Doolittle
- The Story of Easter Robin
- The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat
- The Stray Dog
- The Substitute Creacher
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- The Thankful Book
- The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale
- The Three Pigs
- The Trouble with Dogs, Said Dad
- The Twin Giants
- The Ugly Vegetables
- The Unicorn at the Manger
- The Vegan Family Cookbook
- The Vegan Slow Cooker
- The Vegetable Alphabet Book
- The Vegetables We Eat
- The Vegetarian Lion
- The Very Busy Spider
- The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
- The Way I Love You
- The Whales’ Song
- The Wiener Dog Magnet
- The Wolves Are Back
- The Wonders Inside: Bugs and Spiders
- Tiger
- Tillie Lays an Egg
- Tina and the Penguin
- Toad Food and Measle Soup
- Toby the Pet Therapy Dog and His Hospital Friends
- Tofu and T. rex
- To Market, To Market
- Too Many Pears
- Too Many Turkeys
- Treasury for All Seasons
- Trouble at the Dinosaur Cafe
- True Green Kids
- Tua and the Elephant
- Tuesday
- Tugg and Teeny
- Turk and Runt
- ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
- Twelve Gifts of Birth
- Twist and Ernest
- Two Bobbies
- Tyrannosaurus Drip
- Uncle Andy’s Cats
- Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen
- Uncover a Horse
- Unlovable
- Uno’s Garden
- Vegan for the Holidays
- Vegan Is Love
- Vegan Pregnancy Survival Guide
- Vegetable Friends
- Vegetarian Cooking for Beginners
- Vunce Upon a Time
- Wag!
- Walter the Farting Dog
- War Dogs
- Wave
- We Are Extremely Very Good Recyclers
- Welcome Back, Puffin!
- We’re Sailing to Galapagos
- Weslandia
- What About Daisy?
- What I Be
- What If There Were No Bees?
- What Is Easter?
- What’s in My Garden?
- What’s Your Sound, Hound the Hound?
- Wheels of Change
- When Anju Loved Being an Elephant
- When Lulu Went to the Zoo
- When Santa Turned Green
- Where Does the Garbage Go?
- Where There Once Was a Wood
- Who Is the Beast?
- Wholesome Baby Food Guide
- Whooo Loves You?
- Whose Garden Is It?
- Who’s in a Family?
- Why Do My Feet Say YES When My Head Says NO?
- Why Do People Harm Animals?
- Wild Animals in Captivity
- Wild Cats: Cougars, Bobcats, and Lynx
- Wild Horse Winter
- Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
- Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming
- Wolf Christmas
- Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator
- World Water Watch
- Wonder Woman Rumble in the Rainforest
- Wright on Time, Books 1 & 2
- Wurst Case Scenario
- You Be You
- You Will Be My Friend
- Zen Ghosts
- Zen Shorts
- Zen Ties




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How comes you do not have the book CELEBRATING OUR RAW NATURE by Book Publishing Co in your list? It has a great recipes & for kids too!
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