Geographic Alliance of Iowa

Bibliography of River Books


About Rivers; Albert Dickey, 1959.
A Citizen's Streambank Restoration Handbook; Karen Firehock, 1995.
A Day On The River; Reinhard Michl, 1985.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
A Freedom River; Doreen Rappaport, 2000
After The Flood : The Mississippi Flood (videorecording) c1995.
AFTMA's pocket guide to fishing rivers & streams, 1989.
A Guide To The Upper Iowa River; George L. Knudson, 1971.
All About Great Rivers Of The World; Anne Terry White, 1957.
All About Rivers; Jane Emil, 1984.
All Along The River; Allan Fowler, 1994.
Along the Luangwa: A Story of an African Flood Plain; Schyuler Bull A Manatee Morning (Crystal River-Florida); Jim Arnosky
America By Rivers; Tim Palmer, 1996.
American Rivers : A Natural History; Bill Thomas, 1978.
A River Dream; Allen Say A River Ran Wild; Lynne Cherry (juvenile)
A River Running West : The Life of John Wesley Powell; Donald Worster, 2001
A Special Report on the Pollution of River Waters; James Pugh Kirkwood, 1970.
"A Summer Aboard the Steamer Helen Mar a Mississippi Riverboat" : taken from the actual pilots log for 1881; W. R. Slocumb, c1991.
Atchafalaya, America's Largest River Basin Swamp; C. C. Lockwood, 1981.
At The Water's Edge : The Secret Life of a Lake and Stream; Stephen Dalton, 1989.
A View of the River; Luna Bergere Leopold, 1994. A walk by the river; C. William Harrison, 1973.

Before Mark Twain : a sampler of old, old times on the Mississippi; 1998.
Beyond the hundredth meridian : John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West; Wallace Earle Stegner, 1982, c1954.

Colorado river adventures; Bureau of Land Management, 1991.
Colorado, the upper Colorado River recreation area; Bureau of Land Management, 1991.
Crawdad Creek; Scott R. Sanders, 1999.
Crazy for rivers; Bill Barich, 1999.
Crowded Creek; Scott Russell Sanders

Dancing Along the Upper Mississippi; Jim Franklin, 1997.
Days of the Steamboats; William H. Ewen, 1988.
Delta Queen : the story of a steamboat; Virginia Louise Snider Eifert, 1961.
Dilly-Dally and The Nine Secrets; Elizabeth MacDonald, 2000.
Discover! America's Great River Road : The upper Mississippi; Pat Middleton, 1991.
Discover! America's Great River Road : Volume 2, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri : The Middle Mississippi; Pat Middleton, 1999.
Down a River; Carole Telford
Down the Colorado; Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon, 1869; John Wesley Powell, 1969.
Down the Colorado with Major Powell; James Ramsey Ullman,1960.
Down the Yukon; Will Hobbs, 2001

Early River Travel; Tim McNeese, 1993.
Escape to Murray River (realistic fiction)
Exploring Rivers; Derek Cullen, 1988.

Far Appalachia : Following the New River North; Noah Adams, 2001
First Look at Rivers; Susan Baker,1991.
First Steamboat Down the Mississippi; George S. Fichter, '89
Floating House(American History); Scott Russell Sanders
Flood; Mary Calhoun (juvenile)
Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi; Patricia Lauber Floods; Michael Allaby, '98
Follow the River; Lydia Dabcovich, 1980.
Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky; Gloria Whelan, 1999, c1998.

Gathered Waters : An Anthology of River Poems; Cambridge, Idaho : Backeddy Books, 1985.
Geography for Fun: Projects on Mountains-Plains-Maps-Rivers-and much much more; Pam Robson
Gobo and the river; Joseph Killorin Brennan, 1985.
Grandfather's Dream (Viet Nam); Holly Keller
Great Rivers of the World; 1984.

Here Comes the Showboat!; Betty Bryant, 1994.
Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
Hudson River: An Adventure from the Mountains to the Sea; Peter Lourie

In Search of the Grand Canyon; Mary Ann Fraser, 1995.

Jason's Gold; Will Hobbs, '99)

Land Between Two Rivers (videorecording), 1985.
Laughing River: A Folktale for Peace-Africa
Legend of the LI River: An Ancient Chinese Tale; Joanne M. Lee
Let's Explore a River; Jane R. McCauley, 1988.
Let's Find Out About Rivers; Eleanor Wiesenthal, 1971.
Letting Swift River Go; Jane Yolen (juvenile)
Life on the Mississippi; Mark Twain
Living Near a River; Allan Fowler, 2000.
Lostman's River; Cynthia DeFelice

Marquette and Joliet; Regina Z. Kelly, 1965
Mike Fink, King of Mississippi Keelboatmen; Walter Blair, 1971 Mississippi; Dennis Fradin '95
Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape; Anuradha Mathur
Mississippi Memories; Rick Rodgers,1994.
Mississippi Pirates; Douglas Hirt, 1995.
Mississippi River: A Journey Down the Father of Waters; Peter Lourie
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest; Eddy L. Harris
Missouri; Dennis Fradin '94
Moonlight on the River; Deborah Kovacs, 1993.

Old Glory: A Voyage down the Mississippi; Jonathan Raban
Old Man River and Me: One Man's Journey down the Mighty Mississippi; Mark A.Knudsen & Shawn Plank
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi : The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863; George Byron Merrick, 1987.
One Man's River : Paintings and Sketches From a Scottish River; Keith Brockie, 1988.
One River More; W. D. Wetherell,1998.
On the River ABC; Caroline Stutson, 1993.
On the River: An Adding Book; Sheila White Samton, 1991.
Our Great Rivers and Waterways; Eleanor H. Ayer, 1994.

Passage of Discovery; Daniel B. Botkin, ' 99
Places of Quiet Beauty; Rebecca Conard '97
Pond and River; Steve Parker '88

Race to Wallaby Bay (Australia); Robert Elmer
Raven and River; Nancy White Carlstrom,1997.
River; Debbie Atwell River; Bill Staines, 1994.
River Boy; Tim Bowler, 2000
River Day; Jane B. Mason
River Days: Travels on Western Rivers : A Collection of Essays; 1988.
River Friendly-River Wild (poem about a flood); Jane Kurtz
River God; Wilbur A. Smith '94
River Horse: Across America by Boat; William Least
Heat Moon River Journeys; 1985
Riverkeeper; George Ancona, 1990.
River legends, or, Father Thames and Father Rhine [microform]; Edward Hugessen Brabourne, 1875.
River Life; Barbara Taylor, 1992.
Rivermen; Gail Stewart, 1990.
River Otter; Laima Dingwall,1986.
River Parade; Alexandra Day '90
River reflections : An Anthology; N.C. Charlotte, 1984.
River Runners of the Grand Canyon; David S. Lavender, 1985.
River Town; Bonnie Geisert, 1999.
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze; Peter Hessler, 2001
River Winding; Charlotte Zolotow '78
Rivers - Many books by this name by many different authors!
Rivers and Oceans: Geography Facts and Experiment; Barbara Taylor
Rivers: curriculum guide; Robert Williams,1998.
Rivers in the Rainforest; Saviour Pirotta, 1999.
Rivers and Lakes - Many books by this name by many different authors!
Riverwalking : Reflections on Moving Water; Kathleen Dean Moore, 1995.
Rock River (Realisitc Fiction); Bill Maynard

Sacred River (Ganges); Ted Lewin, 2001
Sights and Sounds of Steamboatin': The Life and Times of Capt. William H. Laughton; Virginia W. French, 1992.
Signs Along the River: Learning to Read the Natural Landscape Song of the river; Billy C. Clark, 1993.
Steamboat Legacy: The Life & Times of a Steamboat Family; Dorothy Heckmann Shrader, 1993.
Steamboats to the West; Edith S. McCall, 1980.
Streams to the River-River to the Sea; Scott O' Dell

Taking Care of Carruthers; James Marshall,1981.
The Amazon; Julia Waterlow,1994.
The Barge Book; Jerry Bushey,1984.
The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids of the American West; Roderick Nash, 1989.
The Big Rivers: The Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Ohio; Bruce Hiscock, '97
The Ganges; David Cumming, 1994.
The Great Midwest Flood; Carole G. Vogel
The Mighty River (videorecording); 1993.
The Mississippi; Nina Morgan, 1994.
The Mississippi; Ruth Crisman, 1984.
The Raft; Jim LaMarche
The Rhine; Smalley, Mark; Austin, Tex., Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1994.
The River; David Bellamy
The River; Gary Paulsen '91
The Riverboat Crew; Andrew & Janet McLean '78
The River Goddess: A Hindu Tale;Vijay Singh
The River Reader; New York, Lyons Press, c1998.
The River's in My Blood: riverboat pilots tell their stories; Jane Curry, 1983.
The River Story; Meredith Hooper
The River's Voice: An Anthology of Poetry; 2000.
The St. Lawrence; Trudy J. Hanmer, 1984.
The Secret Life of the Seine; Mort Rosenblum,1994.
The Steamboaters; 1986.
The Story About Ping; Marjorie Flack, '83
The Story of Mississippi Steamboats; R. Conrad Stein, 1987.
The Thames; Daniel Rogers, 1994.
The Unfolding River; Michael March, 1992.
The Unsinkable Delta Queen (Videorecording); 1988.
The Water's Journey; Elenore Schmid
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe; Vera B. Williams
Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
Trouble on the Ohio River (Realistic Fiction); Norma Jean Lutz
Trout Summer; Jane Leslie Conly, 1995.

Under the Green Tree Hotel; Dick Stahl, 1996.
Upper Mississippi River History: Fact, Fiction, Legend; Ron Larson, 1995

We Live By the River; Lois Lenski, 1956.
West By Steamboat; Tim McNeese,1993.
Where the River Begins; Thomas Locker, 1984.
Whispering River White Water; Jonathan and Aaron London
Who Will Wash the River?; Wallace Orlowsky and Thomas B. Perera
Willy Whitefeather's River Book for Kids; Willy Whitefeather, 1994.
Wonders of Rivers; Rae Bains, 1982.
Working River; Fred Powledge,1995.

And let's not forget all of those great National Geographic magazines! There are over a dozen articles on various rivers since 1996!