Books and Audio

Foundational Field Guides:

  • Naturally Curious: A photographic month-by-month field guide of New England
  • Reader’s Digest Guide to North American Wildlife (broad-based guide)
  • Peterson First Guides/ Golden Book Guides (great for young children and beginners)
  • Peterson Guides: Eastern Trees, Ecology of Eastern Forests, Wildflowers Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants & Wild Edibles, Eastern Birds, Mammals, Venemous Animals and Poisonous Plants
  • Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide (key guide to wildflower identification)
  • Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont
  • National Audubon Society Field Guides; Sibley’s Guide to Birds of the Northeast Butterflies/Dragonflies by Binoculars (for the Northeast) The Amphibians of New England (by Anne Orth Epple)

Tracking and Awareness:

  • Tracking and the Art of Seeing, by Paul Rezendes
  • Mammal Tracks and Sign/ Bird tracks and Sign,  by Mark Elbroch
  • Scats and Tracks of the Northeast, by Halfpenny and Bruchac
  • Mammal Tracks: Life Size Tracking Guide, by Levine and Mitchell
  • Mammal Tracks and Signs of the Northeast, by Diane Gibbons

Primitive and Traditional Skills:

  • Wilderness Survival/ Living with the Earth,  by Tom Brown Jr.
  • Wildwood Wisdom, by Ellsworth Jaeger
  • The Foxfire Book/Series, by Eliot Wigginton
  • A Book of Earthskills, by David Wescott
  • Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills, by David Wescott

Cultural Traditions & Storytelling:

  • White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life, by Paul Wallace
  • Native American Stories, by Joseph Bruchac
  • Keepers of the Earth, by Micheal Caduto
  • The Other Way to Listen, Hawk I am Your Brother, by Baylor and Parnall
  • Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message, by Jake Swamp
  • Owl Moon, by Yolen and Schoenherr
  • Books by Tom Brown Jr.; Grandfather/The Tracker/Awakening Spirit
  • The Birch Bark House/The Game of Silence, by Louise Erdrich

Medicinal and Edible Plants:

  • Stalking the Wild Asparagus/ Healthful Herbs, by Euell Gibbons
  • Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants, by Tom Brown Jr.
  • The Book of Herbal Wisdom, by Matthew Wood

Philosophy:

  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv
  • The Geography of Childhood, by Nabhan and Trimble
  • Place Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities, by David Sobel
  • The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abrams
  • Beyond Ecophobia, by David Sobel

Communication:

  • Non-Violent Communication, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Faber and Mazlish

With Children:

  • Sharing Nature With Children/ Sharing the Joy of Nature, by Joseph Cornell
  • Secrets of a Wildlife Watcher: A Beginners Field Guide, Jim Arnosky
  • Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children, by Tom Brown Jr.
  • A Kids Herb Book, by Lesley Tierra

Audio:

  • Seeing Through Native Eyes/ Advanced Bird Language, by Jon Young
  • Peterson Field Guides: Birding by Ear / A Field Guide to Bird Songs