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Green Reads & Media
Books, Movies & TV Shows with a Green Message
Common Sense Media has compiled a list of “green” books, movies and TV shows, just in time for Earth Day:
Best Green Reads
| It’s Earth Day: Little Critter by Mercer Mayer
Little Critter inspires with his eco-enthusiasm. |
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| The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
Folksy artwork enlivens tasty web-of-life tale. |
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| Our Earth by Anne Rockwell
Caves, volcanoes, and other Earth delights. |
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| The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Classic, sensitive parable about selflessness. |
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| The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Seuss fable has become an environmentalist classic. |
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| Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman
Red-tailed hawk story stirs urban enviro-conflict. |
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| Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? The Dangers of Global Warming by Anne Rockwell
Dreary planet outlook challenges tweens to act. |
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| Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Plucky kids save endangered species from evil corp. |
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| An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Warming by Al Gore
All evidence, no activism. Sure to depress kids. |
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Earth-Friendly Family Movies
| Arctic Tale
Kid-friendly film serves up inconvenient truth. |
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| March of the Penguins
THE penguin movie. A stunning, loving documentary. |
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| Winged Migration
As pretty and light as a feather on the wind. |
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| Amazon (IMAX)
An ambitious and beautiful nature film. |
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| Hoot
Sweet, clumsy family film about saving owls. |
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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The whole family will fall in love with these beautiful birds. |
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| Fly Away Home
Thrilling, touching adventure for animal lovers. |
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| The 11th Hour
DiCaprio headlines talky global warming docu. |
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| An Inconvenient Truth
Moving, earnest documentary on global warming. |
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Best Green TV
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Help Captain Planet save the earth! |
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| Building Green
Earth-friendly construction from the ground up. |
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| Get Fresh with Sara Snow
Simple ideas for healthy living, the green way. |
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| Invention Nation
Green docuseries is educational, if a bit one-sided. |
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| Living With Ed
Being green not always easy for eco-minded actor. |
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| Big Ideas for a Small Planet
Hip docuseries sells viewers on environmentalism. |
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| Dumped
Recycling show has green lessons, salty vocab. |
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