Radical Reading Resources - Children's Books

Primitive Skills
Whitefeather’s Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids - Whitefeather
Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Survival for Children - Brown
North American Indians Survival Skills - Liptak
More than Moccasins - Carlson
Houses of Bark - Shemie
Houses of Hides and Earth - Shemie
Houses of Snow, Skin, and Bones - Shemie
Houses of Wood - Shemie
Houses of Earth and Shell - Shemie
Houses of Adobe - Shemie
Long Ago Lake - Wilkins
Crinkleroot Guides - Arnosky

Awareness Activities
Keepers of the Night - Caduto and Bruchac
Earthways - Petrash
Native American Crafts Workshop - Bernstein
Traditional Native American Crafts and Activities - Braman
Sharing Nature with Children 1 & 2 - Cornell
Sharing the Joy of Nature - Cornell
Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon - Duensing
Kamana for Kids - Repoley
The Young Naturalist - Repoley
Keeping a Nature Journal - Leslie
Ecoart! - Carlson
Good Earth Art - Kohl
Earth Child 2000 - Sheehan
Keepers of the Earth - Caduto

Reconnecting
The Other Way to Listen - Baylor
Giving Tree - Silverstein
Weslandia - Fleischman
Everybody Needs a Rock - Baylor
Guy Flowering Plum Tree - Stemp
The Great Change - White Deer
Moonsong Lullaby - Highwater
Into the Woods - Krupinski
Tree of Life - Jackson
Chipmunk Song - Ryder
Beyond the Ridge - Goble
Great Kapok Tree - Cherry
A River Ran Wild - Cherry

Feral/Rewilding
Wild Children - Landau
The Boy Who Ran with Gazelles- Mayer
The Wild Boy - Gerstein
The Wolf Girls - Yolen
The Mystery of Human Wolves - Wilson
Children of the Wild - Burger
The Forest Child - Edwards
Wild Child - Plourde
The Girl who Loved Wild Horses - Goble
Salamander Room - Mazer
Jaguar in the Rainforest - Ryder
Adopted by Eagles - Goble
Lost Colony of Roanoke - Fritz
Dream Wolf - Goble
Dark Horse - Sedgwick
Wild Girl - Wormwell
Man Eating Bugs - Menzel

Fauna/Animal Relations
Keepers of the Animals - Caduto
Skull Alphabet Book - Pallotta
Amigo - Baylor
Claws, Coats, and Camouflage - Goodman
Hawk, I’m Your Brother - Baylor
Out in the Night - Liptak
Desert Voices - Baylor
Thanks to the Animals - Sockabaskin
Whale Brother - Steiner
Boy Who Spoke Dog - Morgan
Big Tracks, Little Tracks - Selsman
Animal Tracks - Dorros
Tracks in the Wild - Bowen
Julie of the Wolves - George

Edible/Medicinal Plants
Green Magic - Kelly
Fiddleheads and Mustard Blossoms - Derevitzky
Lobster Pots and Searocket Sandwiches - Derevitzky
Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America - Fernald
Wild Plants You Can Eat - Young
Wild Edibles - Hamilton
Wild Foods - Pringle
Milkweed and Winkles
Acorn Pancakes, Dandelion Salad and Other Wild Dishes - George
Wild, Wild Cookbook - George
Medicines from Nature - Thomas
Ethnobotany - Young
From Earth to Beyond Sky - Wolfson
Song of Seven Herbs - Walking Night Bear
Mysteries of the Rain Forest: 20th Century Medicine Men - Pascoe
Keepers of Life - Caduto
Wildflower Tea - Pochocki
North American Indian Medicine - Liptak
My Grandfather is a Magician - Onyefulu
Honeysuckle Sipping - Chesanow
Miranda’s Magical Garden - Atnip
Herbalist of Yarrow - de la Tour
Shaman’s Apprentice - Cherry
Wildflowers Around the Year - Ryden
Shanleya’s Quest - Elpel

Mushrooms
Good Mushrooms and Bad Toadstools - Fowler
Mushrooms - Laessoe
Mushrooms of the World to Color - Bowers
Mushroom Hunt - Frazer
Katya’s Book of Mushrooms - Arnold
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet - Cameron
Instant Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi - Lawrence
Mushroom Man - Pochocki
Sebastian and the Mushroom - Krann

Permaculture
Our Allotment - Burnett
Permaculture: A Beginner’s Guide - Burnett
ABC’s of Permaculture - Zine
Native American Gardening - Caduto
Compost, By Gosh! - Portman
Pee Wee and the Magical Compost Heap - Roulston
In the Three Sisters Garden - Dennee
The Secret Garden - Burnett

General Indigenous
Australian Aborigines - Nile (Threatened Cultures series)
Saami of Lapland - Vitebsky (Threatened Cultures series)
Maori - McDonald (Threatened Cultures series)
Kurds - King (Threatened Cultures series)
Kalahari Bushmen - Barnard (Threatened Cultures series)
Rainforest Amerindians - Lweington (Threatened Cultures series)
Tibetans - Kendra (Threatened Cultures series)
Bedouin - King (Threatened Cultures series)
Inuit - Alexander (Threatened Cultures series)
Romanichal Gypsies - Acton (Threatened Cultures series)
Atlas of Threatened Cultures - Mason
Efe - Siy
Penen - Siy
Eeyou - Siy
Waorani - Siy
Black Indians - Katz
A Journey to New York - Norberg-Hodge
The People Shall Continue - Ortiz
Coyote Columbus - King
When Clay Sings - Baylor
Erandi’s Braids - dePaola
Whale Rider - Ihimaera
Clambake - Peters

Indigenous Resistance
Story of Colors - Subcomandante Marcos
Questions and Swords - Subcomandante Marcos
Brave Eagle’s Account of the Fetterman Fight - Goble
A Boy Called Slow - Bruchac
Crazy Horse’s Vision - Bruchac
Red Hawk’s Account of Custer’s Last Stand - Goble
Rabbit-Proof Fence - Pilkington
Battlefields and Burial Grounds - Echo Hawk
Death of the Iron Horse - Goble
The Defenders - McGovern
Osceola: Seminole Warrior- Oppenheim
Osceola:1804-1838 - Koestler
Cochise - Schwartz
With All My Might - Dean
Geronimo: Apache Warrior - Haugen
Geronimo: Wolf on the Warpath - Moody
Geronimo: Apache Freedom Fighter - Hermann
Sitting Bull Remembers - Turner
The Story of Sitting Bull - Eisenberg
Tecumseh: Shawnee War Chief - Fleischer
These Lands are Ours - Connell
Crazy Horse: Sioux Warrior - Haugen
Crazy Horse - St. George
Black Elk - Shaw
Ishi - Peterson
Not Guilty - Sullivan

General Anti-Authoritarian
Yertle the Turtle - Seuss
The Sneetches - Seuss
The Butter Battle Book - Seuss
Anarchist Farm - Jane Doe
Harold and Maude
Table where Rich People Sit - Baylor
Tacky the Penguin - Lester
Araboolies of Liberty Street - Swope
Work, Work, Work - Quinn
Anarchist Stories for Children - DeVoy
Calvin and Hobbes Guide to Life - Banks
Children’s Guide to Nihilism - Aragorn!
Bear and Raccoon Stories - Aragorn!
Anti-Authoritarian ABC’s zine

Anti-Authoritarian Individuals
Life and Times of Emma Goldman - Emma Goldman Papers Project
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn - Willard
Zhuangzi Speaks - Chih-chung Ts’ai
The Trouble with Henry: A Tale of Walden Pond - O’Neil
A Man Named Thoreau - Burleigh
Into the Deep Forest with Thoreau -Murphy
Henry David’s House - Schnur
Walking with Henry - Locker
A Hound, a Bay Horse, a Turtle Dove - Wood
What Befell at Mrs. Brooks - Overlie
A Mind with Wings - JHusman
Luisa May and Mr.Thoreau’s Flute - Dunlap
Henry David Thoreau - Reef
Henry David Thoreau: Writer and Rebel - Stern
Henry Works - Johnson
Henry Climbs a Mountain - Johnson
Henry Builds a Cabin - Johnson
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg - Johnson

Insurrection/Creation
Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak
The Secret World of Duvbo - CrimethInc
I’m in Charge of Celebrations - Baylor
Super Cilantro Girl - Herrera
Math Curse - Scieszka
Piggy in the Puddle - Pomerantz
Naughty Parents - Gosney
The Way to Start a Day - Baylor
Uno’s Garden - Base

Direct Action
The Luddites - Liversidge
The Story of John Brown’s Raid - Kent
The Lorax - Seuss
Hoot - Hiaasen
Flush - Hiaasen
The Sheep Look Up - Brunner
Quest for the Faradawn - Ford
Little Squatter’s Handbook - Cordelia and Ziggy
Pom Poko (video)
Missing from Haymerket Square - Robinet
Breaking Free: The Adventures of Tintin - Daniels
Farewell to Shady Glade - Peet

Miscellaneous (Fiction/Homesteading/Self-Sufficiency)
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O’Dell
Snow Walker (video)
Fire-Us - Armstrong and Butcher
Tuck Everlasting - Babbitt
Hatchet - Paulsen
Touching Spirit Bear - Mikaelsen
Heidi - Spyri
Watership Down - Adams
The Blue Butterfly (video)
Erandi’s Braids - de Paola
My Side of the Mountain - George
One Small Blue Bead - Baylor
Lobo of the Tasaday - Nance

(more to come…)

Thats just great ! a much appreciated list. Thank You!

Thanks for all the resources.Have you read many of these?

wow. thanks for gathering that list up and sharing it, primal parent!

That’s amazing and inspiring. If I see any more (and I might, I work at an anarchist bookstore) I will try to remember to clue you in.

green,

i’ve read some of em and i own some of em, too.

if there’s any specific titles anyone’s interested in, i can post more info on it.

this is kinda like my wish list for the nature awareness school for children i hope to start one day…

blueheron,

hit me up: primalparent@hotmail

thanks yall