• The Colorado: A River At Risk. Jim Carter. (photographs)
  • Come Back, Salmon. Molly Cone. (photographs)
  • Earth Keepers. Joan Anderson & George Ancona (photographs) [Hudson River]
  • Our Endangered Planet: Rivers and Lakes. Mary Hoff & Mary M. Rogers. (photographs)
  • Pollution. Janine Amos
  • Protecting Rivers and Seas. Kamini Khanuri.
  • Riverkeeper. George Ancona. (photographs) [Hudson River]
  • Waste and Recycling. Janine Amos.
  • Water Pollution. Darlene R. Stille.

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Fiction Stories With River, Stream, Brook, or Creek Settings

  • Crocodile Creek - The Cry in the Night. Colin and Jacqui Hawkins.
  • Hot Hippo. Mwenye Hadithi and Adrienne Kennaway.
  • Make Way for Ducklings. Robert McCloskey.
  • Minn of Mississippi. Holling Clancy Holling.
  • Mr. Gumpy's Outing. John Buringham.
  • My River. Shari Halpern.
  • Over The Steamy Swamp. Paul Geraghty.
  • The Pattaconk Brook. James Stevenson.
  • Riddle By The River. Marcia Vaughan.
  • River Parade. Alexandra Day.
  • The Story About Ping. Marjorie Flack.
  • Think Hippo. Wendy Smith.
  • Zeke Pippin. William Steig.

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Folktales, Myths, and Legends

  • How Iwariwa The Cayman Learned to Share. George Crespo. [South American - Yanomani]
  • Legend of the Li River. Jeanne M. Lee [Chinese]
  • The Loon's Necklace. Pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver. [Tsimshian]
  • Magic Spring. Nami Rhee. [Korean]
  • Man From Snowy River. A. Paterson.
  • Mother Crocodile. Birago Diop. [Sengalese]
  • River Dragon. D. Pattison.
  • The River That Gave Gifts. Margo Humphrey. [Afro American]
  • Talk Talk. Deborah M. Newton Chocolate. [Ashanti]
  • Toad Is The Uncle of Heaven. Jeanne M. Lee. [Vietnamese]
  • Tsubu the Little Snail. Carol Ann Williams. [Chinese]
  • The Waiting Day. Harriet Diller. [Chinese]
  • Wesakesack and the Bears. Bill Ballantyne. [Cree]
  • Wesakesack and the Flood. Bill Ballantyne. [Cree]
  • When Jaguars Ate the Moon. Maria Christina Brusca & Tona Williams [Americas]
  • Why Snails Have Shells. Carolyn Han.
  • The Willow Pattern Story. Allan Drummond. [Chinese]

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Geography

  • Our Great Rivers and Waterways. Eleanor Ayer. [U.S. rivers]
  • River. Brian Knapp. [world rivers]
  • Rivers and Oceans. Barbara Taylor.

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Rivers And People Around The World - Fiction

  • Amazon Boy. Ted Lewin.
  • Anna's Athabaskan Summer. Arnold Griese.
  • The Banshee Train. Odds Bodkin.
  • Deep River. Elaine Moore.
  • The Great Fishing Race. David Kherdian.
  • Letting Swift River Go. Jane Yolen.
  • Lights On The River. Jane Resh Thomas.
  • Moonlight on the River. Deborah Kovacs.
  • Paddle-To-The-Sea. Holling Clancy Holling.
  • River Day. Jane B. Mason.
  • A River Dream. Allen Say.
  • Three Days On A River In A Red Canoe. Vera B. Williams.
  • To Climb A Waterfall. Jean Craighead George.
  • Where The River Begins. Thomas Locker.

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River And People Around The World - Nonfiction

  • Amazon Basin: Vanishing Cultures. Jan Reynolds. (Mavaca River)
  • The Children of Mauritania: Day in the Desert and by the River Shore. Lauren Goldsmith (photographs) [Africa]
  • Children of the Yukon. Ted Harrison.
  • Homes on Water. Alan James.
  • On The Go. Ann Morris.
  • This Place Is Wet. Vicki Cobb. [Brazilian Rainforest]
  • Tintin's Travel Diaries: The Amazon And The Americas. Martine Noblet & Chantel Deltenre.
  • Warriors. Wigmen, And The Crocodile People: Journeys to Papua New Guinea. Barbara A. Margolies. (photographs)
  • Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike. Peter Lourie. [photographs]

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Poetry

  • Turtle in July. Marilyn Singer.

Rivers In History - Historical Fiction

  • The Boats on the River. Marjorie Flack. [Hudson River]
  • The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad. F.N. Monjo.
  • The Floating House. Scott Russell Sanders. [Ohio River]
  • Follow The Drinking Gourd. Jeanette Winter

River In History - Nonfiction

  • The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal. Cheryl Harness.
  • A River Ran Wild. Lynne Cherry. [Nashua River]
  • The Story of Rosy Dock. Jeannie Baker. [Finke River - Australia]

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River Life - Animals and Atmosphere

  • Box Turtle At Long Pond. William T. George.
  • Let's Explore a River. Jane McCauley. (photographs) [National Geographic Society]
  • Manatees. Christine Causse. (photographs) [The Cousteau Society]
  • Nature Hide & Seek: Rivers & Lakes. John Norris Wood and Kevin Dean.
  • On The River ABC. Caroline Stutson.
  • Otter Swims. Derek Hall
  • Otters Under Water. Jim Arnosky.
  • Pond Lake River Sea. Mary Jo Koch.
  • Pond & River. Steven Parker (Eyewitness Book) (photographs) [Explores//contrasts four season]
  • Ponds and Streams. John Stidworthy.
  • Playful Slider: The North American River Otter. Barbara Juster Esbensen.
  • River. Judith Heide Gilliland. [Amazon]
  • The Riverbank. Gallimand Jeunesse and Laura Bour. [First Discovery]
  • River Life. Barbara Taylor. (photographs)
  • Sea Otters River Otters. S. Robinson.
  • Secrets of Rivers and Streams. Peter J. Swenson.
  • Think of an Eel. Karen Wallace.

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Water and the Water Cycle

  • Experiments With Water. Ray Broekel.
  • The Magic Schoolbus At The Waterworks. Joanna Cole.
  • Rain Drop Splash. Alvin Tresselt.
  • Rain Rain Rivers. Uri Shulevitz.
  • Water. Frank Asch.
  • Water. Brian Enting. (photographs)
  • Water. Carme Sole Vendrell and J.M. Parramon. (The four elements series)
  • Water. Ken Robbins. ( The Elements)
  • Waters. Edith Newlin Chase and Ron Broda.
  • The Water's Journey. Eleanore Schmid.
  • Wonderful Water. Bobbie Kalman & Janine Schaub.

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Chapter Books

  • Across The Great River. Irene Beltran Henandez. [Rio Grande]
  • The Crossing. Gary Paulsen.
  • The Dead Man in Indian Creek. Mary Downing Hahn.
  • Devil's Bridge. Cynthia DeFelice.
  • Face To Face. Marion Dane Bauer.
  • The House of Sixty Fathers. Meindert De Jong.
  • On My Honor. Marion Dane Bauer.
  • The River. Gary Paulsen.
  • The Roaring River Mystery. Franklin W. Dixon. [The Hardy Boys]
  • Streams to the River, River to the Sea. Scott O'Dell.
  • Toughboy & Sister. Kirkpatrick Hill.
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