This multi-purpose book is for teachers, librarians, and parents who want to develop children's awareness of environmental matters while building and refining their language arts skills. In response to the challenge for school districts to integrate environmental education into the curriculum, this book presents environmental awareness topics to appeal to children's curiosity, interest, and sense of action. Simultaneously, it offers language arts activities that adhere to the National Council of Teachers of English and International Reading Association standards of 1996. Over 100 books are annotated, organized for children ages 5 to 8 and 9 to 14, under 6 headings: language, listening, folk literature, reading, speaking, and writing. They cover all genres from poetry to nonfiction, with subjects ranging from pollution and global warming to activism, endangered animals, and the beliefs of North American Indians. The book includes activities for in-class and library, as well as home, use. Contains an appendix of children's periodicals, and an author/illustrator/title index and subject index. (RS)