We Protect What We Love

My books in this list give you a front row seat to science in action. You'll trek through an African forest to study elephants, dive below the surface of the ocean to study plastic and other ocean problems, make friends with fuzzy-faced sea otters, or visit three zoos saving endangered animals. Each book is carefully researched, on site when possible, to help readers feel part of the science and, most of all, part of nature.

I want kids and teens to love nature, because we protect what we love.

A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn

Patricia Newman and Natasha Donovan

$31.99

Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean

Patricia Newman

$34.65

"A must read!" --Jeff Bridges, Academy Award winner and environmentalist

Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem

Patricia Newman

$33.32

Sibert Honor Book - Green Earth Book Award winner - ALA Notable Book - starred Kirkus review

Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley

$30.65

Green Earth Book Award - Junior Library Guild Selection - Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru Science Books & Film Prize for Excellence in Science Books - A Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year -AAAS/Subaru Science Books and Films Best Books of 2014

Zoo Scientists to the Rescue

Patricia Newman

$33.32

Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year - Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best List - Eureka! Gold Award, California Reading Association - Junior Library Guild Selection

Eavesdropping on Elephants: How Listening Helps Conservation

Patricia Newman

$33.32

NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books - Green Earth Book Award Short List - Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Best Children’s Books of the Year - Eureka! Gold Award, California Reading Association

Thanks for visiting! I hope you enjoy your purchases.

"People often draw an invisible line between themselves and nature, but we need to blur that line. "Living for each other is nature's rule," Annie [Crawley] says. "Nothing lives for itself." By helping the ocen we help ourselves. Planet Ocean is us."

--From Planet Ocean by Patricia Newman, photographs by Annie Crawley