Books to Share with Children for Animal Classification

• Arnosky, Jim. Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing the Birds. NY: Bradbury Press. 1992.
• Egan, Christopher, et al. My First Book of Animals from A to Z. NY: Scholastic, 1994.
• Elliot, Leslee. Really Radical Reptiles and Amphibians. NY: Sterling Pub. Co., 1994.
• Eyewitness Books, a series of book devoted to various topics. Those appropriate for Animal Classification would be: Amphibian, Reptile, Bird, and Mammal.
• Fichter, George. Turtles, Toads, and Frogs. A Golden Book. NY, 1993.
• Garelick, May. What Makes a Bird a Bird? NY: MONDO Publishing, 1988. (primary)
• Kalman, Bobbie and Tammy Everts. Frogs and Toads. NY: Crabtree Pub. Co., 1994.
• Lauber, Patricia. Fur, Feathers, and Flippers. NY: Scholastic, 1994.
• Markle, Sandra. Outside and Inside Birds. NY: Bradbury Press, 1994.
• McClung, Robert. Peeper, First Voice of Spring. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1977.
• Parker, Nancy Winslow and Joan Richards Wright. Frogs, Toads, Lizards, and Salamanders. NY: Greenwillow Books, 1990.
• Patent, Dorothy. Why Mammals Have Fur. NY: Cobblehill Books, 1995.
• Rupp, Rebecca. Everything You Never Learned about Birds. Pownal, VT: Storey Publishing, 1995.
• Schnieper, Claudia. Snakes, Silent Hunters. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1995.
• Selsam, Millicent and Joyce Hunt. A First Look at Birds. New York: Walker, 1973.
• Sill, Cathryn. About Birds. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishing, 1991.

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