November Creation Challenge
Expand your mind—Read a book
Burrrrr . . . it’s time to come into the warm, get cozy and lose yourself in a good book. Winter offers us the perfect chance to expand our understanding of creation with a little reading, so below are a few suggestions to get you started. You’ll find more information about these and other good reads in the Garden Room. Enjoy!
Classics
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
A Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
Arctic Dreams – Barry Lopez
* Keith County Journal – John Janovy
Fiction
Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver
The Lamentations of Zeno – Llija Trojanow
Grey Mountain – John Grisham
The Carbon Diaries – Saci Lloyd (Young Adult)
The Land of Curiosities – Deanna Neil (Young Adult)
Children and Youth
Grandpa’s Garden – Stella Fry (young child)
The Lorax – Dr. Seuss (child)
* The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein (child)
Global Warming – Seymour Simon (child)
Eyes Wide Open – Paul Fleischman (teen)
It’s Getting Hot in Here – Bridget Heos (teen)
Coffee Table
The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals -Joel Satore
Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform -Finis Dunaway
Faith and Values
* Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis – Patricia Tull
* A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions – Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
* Getting to Green – Frederick Rich
* The Climate Swerve, Reflections on Mind, Hope and Survival – Robert Jay Lifton
Responding
* Drawdown – Paul Hawken, ed.
* The Case for a Carbon Tax – She-Ling Hsu
Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond
* Awake on Earth – Carla A. Wise
* Available in the WPC Library