Reading Resources

• The Healthy School Handbook - NEA Professional Library (800) 229-4200

• The Impossible Child at School and at Home + a set of three videos
• Is This Your Child? (Both of these resources are available from:
  Dr. Doris Rapp, M.D.
  Environmental Allergy Center
  2757 Elmwood Avenue
  Buffalo, New York 14217
  [716] 875-5578)

• Is This Your Child's World? (How You Can Fix the Schools & Homes That Are Making Your Child Sick) by Dr. Doris Rapp, M.D. (Bantam Books - 1996).

• Why Can't My Child Behave? (Why Can't She Cop? Why Can't He Learn?) by Jane Hersey of the Feingold Association of America (Pear Tree Press - 1996).

• Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health by the Children's Environmental Health Network, 1997 ([510] - 450-3818).

• Raising Children Toxic Free (How to Keep Your Child Safe from Lead, Asbestos, Pesticides & Other Environmental Hazards) by Drs. Herbert L. Needleman and Philip J. Landrigan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 1994).

• Our Children's Toxic Legacy (How Science & Law Fail to Protect Us From Pesticides) by John Wargo (Yale University Press - 1996).

• Poisoning Our Children (Surviving in a Toxic World) by Nancy Sokol Green (Noble Press - 1991).

• Ashford, Nicholas and Claudia Miller. Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 2nd edition, 1998).

• Chase, Jayni. Blueprint for a Green School (New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1995).

• Colborn, Theo and Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? - A Scientific Detective Story (New York: Dutton Books, 1996).

• Gibbs, Lois Marie. Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen’s Guide to Reclaiming Our Health And Rebuilding Democracy (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1995).

• Green, Nancy Sokol. Poisoning Our Children: Surviving in a Toxic World (Chicago, IL: Noble Press, 1991).

• Green, Nancy Sokol. The Nontoxic Baby: Reducing Harmful Chemicals from Your Baby’s Life (Encinitas, CA: Natural Choices, 1991).

• Miller, Norma (Editor). The Healthy School Handbook: Conquering the Sick Building Syndrome and other Environmental Hazards In and Around Your School (Washington, D.C.: NEA Professional Library, 1995).

• Moses, Marion. Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides (San Francisco, CA: Pesticide Education Center, 1995).

• Needleman, Herbert and Philip Landrigan. Raising Children Toxic Free: How to Keep Your Child Safe from Lead, Asbestos, Pesticides, and Other Environmental Hazards (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994).

• Potter, Melody Milam. Healthy Baby, Toxic World: Practical Ways to Protect Your Baby During Pregnancy and Infancy (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1999.)

• Pottkotter, Louis. The Natural Nursery: The Parent’s Guide to Ecologically Sound, Nontoxic, Safe, and Healthy Baby Care (Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1994).

• Rapp, Doris. Is This Your Child’s World? How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That Are Making Your Children Sick (New York: Bantam Books, 1996).

• Repetto, Robert and Sanjay S. Baliga. Pesticides And The Immune System: The Public Health Risks (Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 1996).

• Saunders, Carol Silverman. Safe At School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12 (Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Press, 1994).

• Schettler, Ted and Gina Solomon, Maria Valenti and Annette Huddle. Generations At Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999).

• Schneider, Dona and Natalie Freeman. Children’s Environmental Health: Reducing Risk in a Dangerous World (Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2000).

• Schoemaker, Joyce and Charity Vitale. Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids: Protecting Your Children From Everyday Environmental Hazards (Washington, D.C: Island Press, 1991).

• Sherman, Janette D. Chemical Exposure and Disease: Diagnostic and Investigative Techniques (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., 1994).

• Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment (New York: Addison Wesley Publishing, 1997).
• U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System, OTA-BA-436 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1990).

• Wargo, John. Our Children’s Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us From Pesticides (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).

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