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Children’s Books Added to the Reading List

BY Dee Cooper

As we prepare for this Summer of Exploring Creative Play and Spirituality there are additional books in the COTH library for those younger at heart. Dee has shared her reading list with us, and these are for those younger readers who want to share in the adventure. Parents, please check out for yourselves or your children 😉

Touch and Feel- Wild Animals

Face to Face with Lions by Beverly and Dereck Joubert

Face to Face with Wolves by Jim and Judy Brandenburg

Face to Face with Dolphins by Flip and Linda Nicklin

(All of these are national geographic)

Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

And Dee’s new favorite—-Me…Jane…by Patrick McDonnell (surprise ending!)

Check out Dee’s full reading list on the left side-bar of the blog, and join us this summer as we read and discuss some of the books through the summer book groups and Sunday Adult Education!

Reading List

Dee invites you to study with her by reviewing some or all of the following books:

Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, Stuart Brown (Penguin Group 2009 NY).

The Gift of Play: Why Adult Women Stop Playing and How to Start Again, Barbara Brannen (Writers Club Press 2002, San Jose).

Holy Play: The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Divine Purpose, Kirk Byron Jones (Jossey Bass 2007, San Francisco).

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch (Penguin Putnam 1990, NY).

Horse Sense and the Human Heart, McCormick (Health Communications, Inc. 1997, FL).

Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing 2009, FL).

Blind Hope, Kim Meeder (Multnomah Publishing 2010, CO).

Hope Rising, Kim Meeder (Multnomah Publishing 2005, CO).

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein (Harper Collins Publishing 2008, NY).

Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin (Simon & Schuster 2005, NY).

Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates, Gary Kurz (Kensington Publishing 1997, NY).

Sight Hound, Pam Houston (W.W. Norton & Company 2005, NY).

Pack of Two, Caroline Knapp (Dial Press Trade 1999, NY).

The Blessings of the Animals, Katrina Kittle (Harper Collins Publishers 2010, NY).

Zamba, Ralph Helfer
(Harper Collins Publishers 2006, NY).

Second Nature, Jonathan Balcombe (Palgrave Macmillan 2010, UK).

The Laws of Nature, Walt McLaughlin (North Atlantic Books 2006, 2010, CA).

Dolphins and Their Power to Heal, Amanda Cochrane and Karena Callen (Healing Arts Press 1992, VT)

Children's Books available in the COTH Library:

Touch and Feel - Wild Animals (National Geographic)

Face to Face with Lions by Beverly and Dereck Joubert (National Geographic)

Face to Face with Wolves by Jim and Judy Brandenburg (National Geographic)

Face to Face with Dolphins by Flip and Linda Nicklin (National Geographic)

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell