Climate change: would you leave it to chance?
With colorful illustrations, simple text, and research from trusted sources like NASA, NOAA, and the United Nations, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours is the interactive book that outlines the causes of climate change and gently explores its consequences like rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and more. Though not shy about uncomfortable realities, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours also emphatically teaches hope for the future and includes timely recommendations for what kids and their families can do. Most importantly, the book’s built-in spinner offers readers a choice on every page: spin the arrow and leave climate change to chance or do something about it!
From the book:
Speaking Up
Solving climate change will require that individuals, communities, businesses, and nations to work together for the common good. Bringing people together for the common good. Not everyone agrees that climate change is happening or how serious it is. But if people speak out and show that climate change matters to them, more governments and businesses will take it seriously and decide to act. You can be one of those people.
- From the creative team behind "The Interactive Constitution"
- One of the first children's books to fully explain the science behind climate change to a young audience (most offer cute stories that only touch on the issue)
- Discusses the science of climate, Earth's climate history, the greenhouse effect, and emissions, plus weather, agriculture, deforestation, oceans, disease, and other ways climate change impacts the world
- Gentle but real—it doesn't dodge the tough questions
- Filled with hope! Kids will finish reading feeling empowered and hopeful about the earth's future
- Profiles famous kids from around the world fighting climate change, including Greta Thunberg, Xiye Bastida, David Wickerman, and more!
- Packed with facts, illustrations, and activities
- Vetted by award-winning AP Environmental Science teacher
David Miles is an award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of over 40 books, including ?The Side-by-Side Declaration of Independence, Book, The Interactive Constitution, Allegro, Unicorn and Horse, and other titles. He has worked as a designer, illustrator, and creative director, and he now runs Bushel & Peck Books with his wife, Stephanie. He's been named a CYBILS Award Finalist, Publishers Weekly Star Watch Nominee, Trvst Changemaker, New York Book Show Award Winner, and Bill Fisher Award Finalist, among other accolades. He lives in Fresno, California, with his family.
Albert Pinilla is a freelance illustrator based between Barcelona and Finland. He has worked for many publishers and companies including Editorial Casals, Editorial Sàpiens, Diset S.A, Goula, Editorial San Pablo, Descobrir, Namaka magazine, Editorial Mi Cuento, P/A/N, Capçalera, Davos Comunicación S.L, La Agencia de Publicidad S.A (Spain), Hannacroix Creek Books, Bookworks, Highlights magazine (U.S.), Petit Dimoni magazine (France), Headu Giochi (Italy), Igloo Books (United Kingdom), Schildts & Söderstrströms (Finland), and Akotek (Norway).
