Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids: Understanding Climate Change and What You Can Do About It - Softcover

Hall, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615155855 ISBN 13: 9780615155852

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc, 2007

Synopsis

Kids, parents, and teachers will find the very latest information about the causes and effects of climate change, how people are working to reduce it, and ways kids and their families and schools can join the fight. A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids teaches and inspires through clear and accessible writing, engaging illustrations, hands-on activities, cool and hot facts, eco-hero features, and a hopeful and empowering message to get kids involved in confronting global warming and developing their best selves through such work. A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids is suitable for home and classroom use. It meets national science and social studies curriculum standards. Additional teacher resources are available.

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Hall is the author of numerous science and social studies curriculum books for children. Her award-winning poetry has been anthologized and appeared in magazines, including The Nation and The Threepenny Review. She cofounded ProgressiveKid, a planet-friendly online company for kids and families. She is a regular contributor to On a Ledge, a blog about progressive parenting and green living. She lives on an island in Puget Sound.

Review:

Cool kids can only get cooler once they take in the vibrant and colorful vision of change in this book. Every page offers a morsel of insight relevant to kids' lives and the planet's future. Cool kids may have to fight their moms and dads for the chance to read it first! Once both generations catch the spirit of hope from this book, we'll change the nation--and the world. --U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee, author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy

What an important book for kids and grownups to read. From down-to-earth descriptions of the greenhouse effect to what's really going on in our climate, A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids empowers readers with solid, no-nonsense information as well as giving them tools to make a difference. With clear, accessible text, rich images, and thought-provoking activities, this book is a must-have in any science classroom and is a powerful tool to put in the hands of all of our children. --Lynn Brunelle, Emmy-winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy and author of Pop Bottle Science

What's so dangerous about global warming is that it leaves many people feeling hopeless, as if nothing they could do would matter. This fine book makes it clear that that's not the case, and from changing light bulbs to changing laws, it shows young people how they are able to help. --Bill McKibben, author of Fight Global Warming Now and End of Nature

What an important book for kids and grownups to read. From down-to-earth descriptions of the greenhouse effect to what's really going on in our climate, A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids empowers readers with solid, no-nonsense information as well as giving them tools to make a difference. With clear, accessible text, rich images, and thought-provoking activities, this book is a must-have in any science classroom and is a powerful tool to put in the hands of all of our children. --Lynn Brunelle, Emmy-winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy and author of Pop Bottle Science

What's so dangerous about global warming is that it leaves many people feeling hopeless, as if nothing they could do would matter. This fine book makes it clear that that's not the case, and from changing light bulbs to changing laws, it shows young people how they are able to help. --Bill McKibben, author of Fight Global Warming Now and End of Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0615155855
• ISBN 13: 9780615155852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 87
• Illustrator: Lane Sarah