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COVERT, an English word dating to the 14th century, refers to a dense thicket that provides shelter for wildlife.

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Suggested Reading List

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Suggested Reading List

Forestry:

  • Working With Your Woodland - Beattie, Levine and Thompson. University Press of New England.
  • A Guide To Logging Aesthetics - Jones. Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service. Publication #NRAES-60
  • Reading The Forested Landscape - Wessels. Countryman Press.
  • The Nature of Vermont - Johnson. University Press of New England.
  • The Northern Forest - Dobbs and Ober.
  • The Woodland Steward - Fazio. The Woodland Press.
  • The Tree Identification Book - Symonds.
  • A Landowner's Guide to Building Forest Access Roads - Weist. USDA Forest Service Publication #NA-TP-06-98.

Wildlife:

  • Wildlife Habitat Management for Vermont Woodlands-A Landowner's Guide. VT Fish and Wildlife Dept., Waterbury, VT.
  • Management Guide for Deer Wintering Areas in Vermont - VT Forests and Parks and VT Fish and Wildlife Departments.
  • Model Habitat Management Guidelines for Deer, Bear. Hare. Grouse. Turkey, Woodcock and Non-Game Wildlife -- VT Fish and Wildlife Department
  • Mammal Tracks and Sign of the Northeast - Gibbons.
  • Tracking and the Art of Seeing - Rezendes. Harper Collins.
  • Nature Walks in Southern Vermont - Mark Mikolas

Water:

  • Acceptable Management Practices for Maintaining Water Quality on Logging Jobs in Vermont - VT Dept. Forests, Parks and Recreation, Waterbury, VT.
  • Earth Pond Sourcebook - Matson. Countryman Press.
  • Pond and Brook - Caduto. University Press of New England.
  • The Book of Swamp and Bog - Eastman. Stackpole Books.
  • Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration - by Vermonter Tim Matson

Additional Suggested Reading

  • Owning and Managing Forests - McEvoy. Island Press.
  • Positive Impact Forestry - McEvoy. Island Press.
  • A Sand Country Almanac - Leopold. Ballantine Press.
  • Wetland. Woodland. Wildland - A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont - Thompson and Sorenson. University Press of New England.

  

CHILDREN’S BOOKS ABOUT TREES, WOODLANDS AND THEIR CREATURES

                                                      (New England – mostly!)

                                                                           FICTION

 
 
A Woodland Counting Book – Claudia McGehee
The Acorn’s Story – Valerie Greeley
All in the Woodland Early – Jane Yolen
Andrew Henry’s Meadow – Doris Burn
Apple Pie Tree – Zoe hall
 
The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales – Dawn Casey and Anne Wilson
The Bear That Heard Crying – Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
The Bee Tree – Patricia Polacco
 
The Cherry Tree – Daisaku Ikeda
Child of Faerie – Child of Earth – Jane Yolen
Christmas Farm – Mary Lyn Ray
The Crooked Apple Tree – Eric Houghton
Crow Call – Lois Lowrey
 
Daisy Rabbit’s Tree House – Penny Dale
Dinosaur Woods – Can Seven Clever Critters Save Their Forest Home? –George McClements
The Dragon and the Unicorn – Lynne Cherry
 
Everybody’s Somebody’s Lunch – Cherie Mason
 
A Fairy Went A-Marketing – Rose Fyleman
The First Red Maple Leaf – Ludmila Zeman
First Snow in the Woods – Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stock
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves – Julia Rawlinson
Forest Child – Marni McGee
A Forest of Stories – Rina Singh
 
 
The Gift of the Willows – Helena Clare Pittman
Girl in the Golden Bower – Jane Yolen
The Ghost - Eye Tree – Bill Martin
A Grand Old Tree –Mary Newell DePalma
The Great Kapok Tree – Lynne Cherry
 
The Happiest Tree – Uma Krishmaswami
The Hidden Life of the Forest & The Hidden Life of the Meadow – D. Kuhn
Hunter and His Dog – Brian Wildsmith
 
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book – Jerry Pallotta
I’ll Always Be Your Friend – Sam Brantney
In the Heart of the Village –Barbara Bash
In the Piney Woods – Roni Schotter
In the Woods – Ermanno Christini
The Inside Tree – Linda Smith
 
The Language of Birds – Rafe Martin
Leaf Man – Lois Ehlert
Little Beaver and the Echo – Amy MacDonald
Little Brother Moose – James Kasperson
The Little Fir Tree – Margaret Wise Brown and several other authors and illustrators have versions of the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale.
The Little Fur Family – Margaret Wise Brown
Little Lost Bat – Sandra Markle
Little Tree – ee cummings
The Little Wood Duck – Brian Wildsmith
Living Sunlight – How Plants Bring the Earth to Life – Molly Bang
The Loon’s Necklace- A Tale – Retold by William Toye
The Lorax – Dr. Seuss
Lost in the Woods – Carl R. Sams II & Jean Stock
Lost Moose – Jan Slepian
 
Maple Syrup Season – Ann Purmell
Meeting Trees – Scott Russell Sanders
M is for Maple Syrup – A Vermont Alphabet – C. F. Reynolds
The Mitten – An Old Ukranian Folktale retold by Alvin Tresselt – another version retold by Jan Brett
Moss Pillows – Rosemary Wells
Mrs. Twiggley’s Tree – Dorthea Warren Fox
My Secret Place – Erica Magnus
 
Nicki the Nature Detective – Lena Anderson
North Country Spring – Reeve Lindbergh
 
 
Old Coyote – Nancy Wood
Once There Was a Tree – Natalia Romanova
Our Tree Named Steve – Alan Zweibel
Owl Moon – Jane Yolen
 
A Pocket Full of Kisses – Audrey Penn
The Princess in the Forest – Sibylle von Olfers
 
Raven and River – Nancy White Carlstrom
Redwoods – Jason Chin
The Roadside – David Bellamy
Rosie’s Visitors – Judy Hindley
 
Sky Tree – Seeing Science Through Art – Thomas Locker
Someday a Tree – Eve Bunting
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems – Joyce Sidman
Stella, Fairy of the Forest – Marie-Louise Gay
A Story for Bear – Dennis Haseley
The Story of the Root Children – Sibylle von Olfers
Stranger in the Woods – Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stock
Sugaring – Jessie Haas
 
A Tree for all Seasons – Robin Bernard
The Tree – Dana Lyons
The Tree in the Ancient Forest – Carol Reed-Jones
Those Darn Squirrels – Adam Rubin
Tree in the Trail – Holling Clancy Holling
The Tree in the Wood – Christopher Manson
A Tree is a Plant – Clyde Robert Bulla
A Tree Is Growing – Arthur Dorros
A Tree is Nice – Janice May Udry
 
Up in the Tree – Margaret Atwood
The Waterfall’s Gift – Joanne Ryder
When the Moon is Full – A Lunar Year – Penny Pollock
When the Root Children Wake Up – Audrey Wood
Where Once There Was a Wood – Denise Fleming
Who Would Like a Christmas Tree – Ellen Obed
Winter’s Gift – Jane Monroe Donovan
 
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree – An Appalachian Story –
Gloria Houston
 
 
 
NON-FICTION
 
 
 
Adopted by an Owl – Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
A Tree is Growing – Arthur Dorros
Animals That Live in Trees – Djane R. McCauley
 
Baby Animals of the Woodland Forest – Carmen Bredeson
The Brook Book – Jim Arnosky
 
The Charcoal Forest – How Fire Helps Animals and Plants– Beth A. Peluso
Creatures of the Woods – Toni Eugene
Crinkleroot’s Nature Almanac – Jim Arnosky
Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees – Jim Arnosky
 
Dirty, Rotten, Dead – A Worm’s Eye-View of Death, Decomposition…and Life – Jerry Emory
 
Forest Bright – Forest Night – Jennifer Ward
Forest Explorer – A Life-Size Field Guide – Nic Bishop
The Forest Forever – Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini
Frog Heaven – Ecology of a Vernal Pool – Doug Wechsler
 
The Hidden Life of the Forest – David M. Schwartz
 
In a Nutshell – Joseph Anthony
In The Forest – Nature’s Footprints – Q. L. Pearce & W. A. Pearce
In The Heart of the Village – The World of the Indian Banyan Tree – Barbara Bash
 
A Log’s Life – Wendy Pfeffer
Look At This Tree – Susan Canizares
 
My Favorite Tree – Terrific Trees of North America – Diane Iverson
My Little Book of Painted Turtles – Hope Irvin Marston
My Little Book of Wood Ducks – Hope Irvin Marston
My Little Book of Whittetails – Hope Irvin Marston
 
One Small Square – Woods – Donald M. Silver
Owls – Gail Gibbons
 
Planting the Trees of Kenya – The Story of Wangari Maathai – C. A. Nivola
 
 
The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree – Gail Gibbons
Smithsonian Backyard Series – many appropriate titles
 
Tell Me, Tree – Gail Gibbons
Tree – Eyewitness Book
The Tree – Judy Hindley
Tree – An Eyewitness Book – David Burnie
A Tree is a Plant – Clyde Robert Bulla
A Tree is Growing – Arthur Dorros
Tree of Life – The World of the African Baobab – Barbara Bash
Tree to Paper – (Welcome Books: How Things Are Made) – Inez Synder
 
A Walk in the Boreal Forest – (Biomes of No. America) – R. L. Johnson
Walking With Henry = Based on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau – Thomas Locker
Wangari’s Tree of Peace – A True Story from Africa – Jeanette Winter
While A Tree Was Growing – Jane Bosveld
Why Do Leaves Change Color? – Betsy Maestro
Wild Fox – A True Story – Cherie Mason
Wild Tracks – A Guide to Nature’s Footprints – Jim Arnosky
Woodland Creatures – Aunt L
Woods and Forests – Nature Hide and Seek – J. N. Wood & M. Silver
The Woods Scientist – Stephen R. Swinburne
 
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree – William Miller, et al.
 
 
 
Bibliography by Anne Cary Dannenberg
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Last Updated: Nov 19, 2011