6 Inspiring Earth Day Books for Families
As we fight to balance both the sobering truth and the needed hope about the climate crisis our planet is facing, families must incorporate these ideas into their bookshelves as well as their conversations. These 6 books are good for reading with children, and two of them are critical reads for all adults to help us inform ourselves so that we can take action and include our children.
One Earth
The conclusion of this book takes us back to number one with the book's key message: One Earth so beautiful. Remember--only one. At once celebration and challenge, this book will encourage children to take better care of the planet. (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
This gorgeously-illustrated book both celebrates the beauty of Earth and is a rallying cry for positive action to protect her. (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
Earth Day is a celebration of our beautiful planet. On this holiday, people come together to clean up land and water, plant trees, and enjoy nature. Includes online music access, as well! (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
This quote has been on my childrens' bedroom wall for their entire childhood, and I thank The Lorax for it. "Unless someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not." (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
"Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times. (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
"Naomi Klein applies her fine, fierce, and meticulous mind to the greatest, most urgent questions of our times. . . . I count her among the most inspirational political thinkers in the world today."--Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Bookshop | Amazon | Indiebound)
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