Get ready to explore Florida’s animal kingdom all summer long with hands-on activities from the Museum of Florida History. Each week a wild new theme will be introduced on the Museum’s Summer Reading web page and on the Museum’s Facebook page. Read along with Museum staff as we explore each fun, feathery, or furry theme. Plus, download each week’s free activity.

Visit museumoffloridahistory.com for more details.

Summer reading Program

July 1 Prehistoric Beasts of Florida

July 8 Mesmerizing Marine Mammals

July 15 The Extraordinary Everglades Ecosystem

July 22 Investigating Invasive Critters

July 29 Flying High in the Florida Sky

S c h e d u l e d t o p i c s m a y c h a n g e .

From funky pink flamingos and bright green anoles to snowy white egrets and inky black bears, Florida’s varied ecosystems have them all. This summer, don your zoologist hat to learn all about the critters who call Florida home. Scattered across the Sunshine State are star species like manatees, Florida panthers, both alligators AND crocodiles, bobcats, wild hogs, and flying squirrels. Some of these animals are not native, while others are in need of protection as their habitats have changed over time. They all have a role to play in Florida’s wonderful wilderness.

The books listed here have been carefully selected by the Museum of Florida History staff. Read six or more books to receive a special certificate from Florida Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee and the Museum of Florida History. Visit your local library online to find these selected books and to begin your own reading adventure.

For more information about Summer Reading at the Museum of Florida History, please contact:

Lydia Malone at 850.245.6330.

Read six or more books from this list and receive a special certificate from the Secretary of State and the Museum of Florida History. List books read below.

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When finished, give this page to your librarian or send it to:

Museum of Florida History500 South Bronough StreetTallahassee, Florida 32399

Anatoly Anole: The Boastful Brown Lizard, Ardith M. SchneiderA Backyard Birding Adventure: What’s in Your Yard?, Kermit Cummings and Holly WeinsteinThe Backyard Bug Book for Kids, Lauren DavidsonA Butterfly is Patient, Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia LongClaude: The True Story of a White Alligator, Emma Bland SmithEgg, Kevin HenkesFacts About the Bobcat, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Burrowing Owl, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Flamingo, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Great Blue Heron, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Pelican, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Eagle, Lisa StrattinMiles and Miles of Reptiles: All About Reptiles, Tish Rabe

Ages 3–5

Ages 6–8

National Geographic Readers: Caterpillar to Butterfly, Laura MarshOllie Finds a New Home: The Story of a Burrowing Owl on Marco Island, Roseanne PawelecPoky, the Turtle Patrol, Diana KananRanger Rick: I Wish I Was a Monarch Butterfly, Jennifer BoveRhoda the Alligator, Governor Bob GrahamStellaluna, Janell CannonSummer Song, Kevin HenkesSunny Numbers: A Florida Counting Book, Carol CraneTadpole to Frog: Animals Grow Up, Shira EvansThere Was an Old Gator Who Swallowed a Moth, B. J. LeeWhat Happens Next?: Caterpillar to Butterfly, Rebecca BondorWillie the Worm’s Florida Everglades Adventure, Luis Vera

The Adventures of Pelican Pete: A Bird is Born, Frances KeiserThe Adventures of Pelican Pete: Preening for Flight, Frances KeiserThe Adventures of Pelican Pete: First Discoveries, Frances KeiserAmerican Mastodon, Michael P. GoeckeAt Home with the Gopher Tortoise: The Story of a Keystone Species, Madeleine DunphyDillo: A Baby Armadillo’s Adventures on Sanibel Island, Kyle L. MillerDiscover Birds with Natalie, Thomas KibaloFacts About the Crane, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Iguana, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Oystercatcher, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Opossum, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Roseate Spoonbill, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Swan, Lisa StrattinFacts About the Woodpecker, Lisa StrattinFelina’s New Home: A Florida Panther Story, Loran Wlodarski

Florida’s Famous Animals: True Stories of Sunset Sam the Dolphin, Snooty the Manatee, Big Guy the Panther, and Others, Jan Godown AnninoGus the Gopher Tortoise, Thomas KibaloHaas the Great Blue Heron, Juliane B. FloraHeronymus Heron Discovers His Shadow, Janice WilliamsPanther: Shadow of the Swamp, Jonathan LondonPrehistoric Mammals, Kathleen Weidner ZoehfeldOnce Upon a Mastodon: All About Prehistoric Mammals (Cat in the Hat), Bonnie WorthSabre-Tooth Tiger, Gerry BaileyScary the Scared Iguana, Marin ResnickThose Funny Flamingos, Jan Lee WickerWild and Woolly Mammoths, AlikiWinter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, Craig, Juliana, and Isabella HatkoffA Woolly Mammoth Journey, Debbie S. Miller

The Adventures of Charlie Pierce: The Last Egret, Harvey Oyer IIIAnoles: Those Florida Yard Lizards, Steven B. IshamThe Bald Eagles of Money Bayou, Valerie Seyforth ClaytonBuddy Manatee, Tim ThomasChomp, Carl HiaasenFins: A Sharks Inc. Novel, Randy Wayne WhiteFlorida’s Fabulous Reptiles and Amphibians, Peter CarmichaelFlush, Carl HiaasenHoot, Carl HiaasenIce Age Giants of the South, Judy Cutchins and Ginny JohnstonIce Age Sabertooth: The Most Ferocious Cat That Ever Lived, Barbara HehnerIzzie Lizzie Alligator: A Tale of a Big Lizard, Suzanne TateThe Last Panther, Todd MitchellManatee Blues, Laurie Halse AndersonThe Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Ecological Mystery, Jean Craighead George

Papa Mole’s Secrets of Happiness, Carol Hair MooreRealm of the Panther: A Story of South Florida’s Forests, Emily CostelloRun, Sea Turtle, Run: A Hatchling’s Journey, Stephen R. SwinburneSaber-Toothed Cats (Exploring Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures), Susan H. GraySabertooths and the Ice Age: A Nonfiction Companion to Sunset of the Sabertooth, Mary Pope OsborneSave the Florida Key Deer, Margaret Goff ClarkScat, Carl HiaasenThe Threatened Florida Black Bear, Margaret Goff ClarkTurtle Tide, Stephen R. SwinburneThe Vanishing Manatee, Margaret Goff ClarkWho Are You Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America, Elizabeth LevyWho Lives in an Alligator Hole?, Anne RockwellWoolly Mammoth: Life, Death, and Rediscovery, Windsor ChorltonThe Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsThe Young Naturalist’s Guide to Florida, Peggy Lantz and Wendy Hale

Ages 9–12

Teen

Alligator Tales, Kevin M. McCarthyAtlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America, Craig ChildsCat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther, Craig PittmanThe Coastlines of Florida, Peggy Sias Lantz and Wendy HaleDiamonds in the Rough: Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, D. Bruce MeansEncounters with Florida’s Endangered Wildlife, Doug AldersonThe Endangered Florida Panther, Margaret Goff ClarkField Guide to the Rare Animals of Florida, Dan Hipes, et alFlorida Panther, John E. BeckerThe Florida Panther: Help Save This Endangered Species, Marty FletcherFlorida Plants and Animals, Bob KnottsFlorida Wildlife Corridor Expedition: Everglades to Okefenokee: 1,000 Miles in 100 Days, Carlton Ward, Mallory Dimmitt, Joe Guthrie, and Elam StoltzfusFlorida’s Turtles, Lizards, and Crocodilians: A Guide to Their Identification and Habits, R.D. Bartlett and Patricia Bartlett

Great Birding Spots in Tallahassee, Florida and Surrounding Areas, Bob HendersonGreat Birding Spots in Wakulla, Leon, and Franklin Counties Florida, Julie Duggan and Jack DozierGuide to the Great Florida Birding Trail, East Section: A Project of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Julie Brashears and Susan CeruleanIguana Invasion!: Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida, Virginia Aronson and Allyn SzejkoNational Geographic, the Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals, Joel SartoreThe Nature of Florida: An Introduction to Familiar Plants and Animals and Natural Attractions, James KavanaghSnake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, Larry PerezSwamp Screamers: At Large with the Florida Panther, Charles FergusSwamp Song: A Natural History of Florida’s Swamps, Ron LarsonWildlife of North Florida, Jim StevensonWildlife of the Florida Keys: A Natural History, James D. Lazell, Jr.