Open Court

Grade 3

City Wildlife

507.8 Lan

Lang, Susan. More nature in your backyard : simple activities

for children. Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1998.

Provides instructions for simple science experiments and

nature activities to be performed in the backyard.

598.5 Bas

Bash, Barbara. Urban roosts : where birds nest in the city. 1st

pbk. ed. San Francisco : Boston : Sierra Club Books ;

Little Brown, c1990. Describes the birds that make their

homes in the heart of the city and examines how they have

adjusted to such a harsh urban environment.

E Col

Collard, Sneed B. Butterfly count. 1st ed. New York : Holiday

House, c2002. Amy and her mother look for a very special

butterfly while attending the annual Fourth of July

Butterfly Count at a prairie restoration site. Includes

factual information about butterflies and how to attract and

watch them.

E McC

McCloskey, Robert. Make way for ducklings. New York : Viking,

c1999, 1941. The story of Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and how they

go about finding just the right place to lay their eggs and

raise their family.

E Ste

Stewart, Sarah. The gardener. 1st ed. New York : Farrar,

Straus, Giroux, 1997. A series of letters relating what

happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace

goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her

love for gardening with her.

F Sel

Selden, George, 1929-. The cricket in Times Square. New York :

Dell, 1984, c1960. With the help of a mouse and a cat, a

musical cricket improves business at the newsstand run by

Mario and his family.

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The Cricket in Times Square.