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Highlighting Climate Change For Young People
November 3, 2021 | Blog > News > Highlighting Climate Change For Young People
Children’s activism has been pushing the environmental agenda on the world stage in an inspiring and powerful way. These books, from pre-school picture books to YA thrillers, will help engaged young people to keep riding the wave.
Who Makes A Forest?
Sally Nicholls & Carolina Rabei
This beautiful picture book takes you on a fascinating walk round the forest, looking at everything from the trees to the soil. Perfectly pitched for inquisitive pre-schoolers, and with a more detailed section at the end for those asking harder questions. Includes a small, not too threatening section on deforestation, climate change, and what we can do.
Trees: A Lift The Flap Eco Book
Carmen Saldaña
Printed on recycled board, this is part of a series of nature-themed pre-school lift-the-flap books that gently inspire wonder and curiosity in the world around us. Robust enough for strong hands and strong minds!
Let's Save The Amazon
Catherine Barr & Jean Claude
This gorgeously illustrated book is packed full of information that 4–8-year-olds will find absolutely fascinating. Every page gives another reason to save the Amazon, from the biodiversity it supports to the medicines we are still to discover. Finally gives ideas for what we can do to save the Amazon ourselves.
Can We Really Help The Polar Bears?
Katie Daynes & Roisin Hahessy
Yes we can! This up-beat and engaging book is eye-catching and thoughtfully laid out. From the perspective of polar bears asking children to help avert climate disaster.
Climate Action
Georgina Stevens & Katie Rewse
Comprehensive reference book on the causes and possible mitigations of climate change. Detailed yet accessible, very well designed and jam packed with interesting facts and hard science.
This Book Is Not Rubbish
Isabel Thomas
A fun and inspiring guide full of genius ideas for reducing plastic waste. Take control of the problem and make a real difference!
Kids Fight Climate Change
Martin Dorey & Tim Wesson
Colourful and engaging series of two-minute missions that aim to inspire children to become climate heroes. Great fun and really accessible.
The Biggest Footprint
Rob & Tom Sears
It would be easy to solve ecological problems if we all worked together, wouldn’t it? This mind-bending books imagines smushing the whole world’s population into one mega human, offering a bizarre but intriguing perspective on how we might be able to do just that.
How To Change Everything
Naomi Klein
Brings Naomi Klein’s cutting-edge and award-winning journalism and razor-sharp analysis to a teenage audience. Hugely inspiring call to action.
Green Rising
Lauren James
A nail-biting eco-dystopian thriller. Out of the ashes of a world ravaged by climate change, teenagers have started to develop strange (and valuable) new powers that might hold the key to regenerating the earth.
