Books
- Don’t Let Them Disappear by Chelsea Clinton
- A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals by Millie Marotta
- Survival by Louis McNaught
- Extinct by Lucas Riera
- If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams
- If Elephants Disappeared by Lily Williams
- If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams
- An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by DK
- Lovely Beasts by Kate Gardener
- The Big Book of Beasts by Yuval Zommer
Resources
- World Wildlife Fund Teaching Resources (see also the Species Features)
- Endangered Animal Bundle (Chickie & Roo)
- Endangered Species Chocolate
- A-Z Endangered Animals Crafts (Learn Create Love)
- Schleich Animals
On Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing
**UPDATE 4/11/20 — After writing this post I decided the Wild Hope book is not very kid-friendly. The stories are not very hopeful and longer than the All Creation Waits book (which I still love).
Wild Hope is a guided devotional for Lent by Gayle Boss. As a family we have been going through Gayle Boss’s All Creation Waits for three years now during Advent, and I am excited to read through Wild Hope this year for Lent. All Creation Waits is themed on animals’ adaptations to winter; Wild Hope is themed on endangered species.
So why focus on endangered species for Lent?
“The purpose of Lent has always been to startle us awake to the true state of our hearts and the world we’ve made. Which wakes an aching, wild hope that something new might be born of the ruin. The promise of Lent is that something will be born of the ruin… Lent is seeded with resurrection.” (Gayle Boss, Wild Hope)
We open our hearts and souls up to the animals who suffer, the “least of these” and feel their suffering as our own.
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