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Hudson River
School
Books for
Children
George, Jean
Craighead. Frightful’s Mountain. Dutton
Children’s Books, 1999.
A sequel to On the Far Side
of the Mountain. The story of Frightful, a peregrine
falcon, and the boy who raises her as she grows through
the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of
New York. Frightful interacts with various other humans,
a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous
poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of
the area's ecological balance.
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.
Dutton, 1988.
Sam, a young boy relates his
adventures during the year he spends living alone in the
Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival,
his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his
ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
George, Jean Craighead. On the Far Side of the
Mountain. Dutton Children’s Books, 1990.
A sequel to My Side of the
Mountain. Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness
home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet
falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.
George, Jean Craighead. One Day in the Woods.
Crowell, 1988.
Rebecca discovers many things
about plant and animal life when she spends the day
in Teatown Woods in the Hudson Highlands of New York
looking for the ovenbird.
Locker, Thomas. Cloud Dance. Harcourt,
2000.
Locker's spare, poetic,
informative text is blended with his well-known Hudson
River school-style landscapes. As with most of his books
Locker lets his paintings do most of the talking.
Locker, Thomas. In Blue Mountains: an Artist’s
Return to America’s first Wilderness. Bell Pond
Books, 2000.
Using painting of the
landscape of Kaaterskill Clove, a gorge in the Hudson
River Valley of upstate New York, Locker shows the beauty
of nature.
Locker,
Thomas. The Man Who Paints Nature. Richard
C Owen Publishers, 1999.
In this autobiography for
children Thomas Locker, who particularly enjoys painting
nature, tells how his creative work intertwines with his
daily routine.
Locker,
Thomas. Mountain Dance. Silver
Whistle/Harcourt, 2001.
Thomas Locker's Mountain
Dance tells the story behind one of Earth's most
majestic creations in this companion to Water Dance.
Lush landscapes and brief lyrical text describe
"fault-block," "shy dome" and "folded" mountains.
Locker,
Thomas. Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art.
HarperCollins, 1995.
The reader is invited to
experience the life of a tree and its relationship to the
sky through storytelling, art appreciation, and scientific
exploration.
Locker,
Thomas. Water Dance. Harcourt Brace &
Company, 1997.
"Some people say that I am one
thing. / Others say that I am many. / Ever since the world
began / I have been moving in an endless circle . . . I am
the rain." So begins the text of this unusual introduction
to the water cycle. The book features a free-verse
narrative illustrated by landscape and seascape paintings
that show water in various forms referred to in the text:
"I am the waterfall," "I am the clouds," or "I am the
thunderhead." At the end of the book each picture appears
in miniature accompanied by a paragraph explaining that
particular phase of the water cycle. Those attracted to
Locker's handsome artwork will find many beautiful and
dramatic paintings here.
Locker,
Thomas. Where the River Begins. Puffin
Books, 1993.
Nature is the star in this
affecting tale of a boy and his grandfather who journey to
a waterway's source. Locker's paintings portray the
changing landscape at different times of the day and in
different kinds of weather.
MacGill-Callahan,
Sheila. And Still the Turtle Watched.
Puffin Books, 1991.
A turtle carved in rock on a
bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches
with sadness the changes man brings over the years.
Seuss,
Dr. The Lorax. Random House, 1971.
The Once-ler describes the
results of the local pollution problem. The truffla trees
are gone!
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