Books I read as a kid or other books for kids.

Charles A. Sorrel and George F. Sandstrom, "Minerals of the World"

how does the chemistry of merely 2 dozen elements create the 1000s of wildly different minerals?  this is one book i learned chemistry from

 *Lynn Margulis and Karlene Schwartz, "Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth"

100 phyla of critters out there that are more different from each other than plants are from animals, by lifecycle and molecular mechanics


*Borror and White, "Peterson's Field Guide to Insects",

there may be a dozen kinds of mammals lurking 'round your back yard, but you can find at least 500 kinds of insects living there.


Holling Clancy Holling, "Pagoo"

follow the story of a young hermit crab growing up in the sea. jam packed with lush illustrations of all kinds of sea critters and biology


ohn C. Kricher and Gordon Morrison, "Field Guide to Eastern Forests",

go out and see how your landscape is knit together by the myriad creatures, get to know some of them.  great details of ecological processes


*"Golden Guide to Pond Life",
stick it in your back pocket and get to know what's happening at a pond near you.  from microscopic anamalcules to turtles and raccoons


Guy Alexander, "Silica and Me"

thin. easy read. how does a scientist make sense of puzzling experiments? beautiful details. learn some chemistry. geology is silica.  read it.


Duncan C. Blanchard, "From Raindrops to Volcanoes"

a delightful romp through observation and experiment.  how to collect microscopic water drops in sea spray? have a baby spider build you a net...

one scientists experimental journey to understand rain. how to collect microscopic water drops in sea spray? have a baby spider build you a net... 


brand
    whole earth catalog

gardner, martin
    sci am articles
    wheels, life, and other math amusmts   hexflexgons, conway...
    

highwater, jimake
    anpao
    
mcilvain
    1001 fungi

moyers, bill
    conversations I II
    
niven, larry
    ringworld
niven and pournell
    mode in god's eye
    
    
pielou, e. c.
    after the ice age
    
rushdie, salman
    haroun and the sea of stories
    
sagan, carl
    dragons of eden

anything Steinbeck

thomas, lewis
    lives of a cell

A. E. van vogt

wallace, karen an mike bostok (ill.)
    think of an eel  candlewick pr 93  ***
    
    
zalezney
  amber chronicles

all the pocket field guides