A childrens book about climate change that even adults can learn from.! I really enjoyed the history that this book taught and I learned several things that I didn't know before.! It really amazed me and I think it's a very important read.!

This explains climate change for our very youngest readers...which is sad to think about. But the illustrations are really interesting and pop off the page.

"The Story of Climate Change" is a stunningly illustrated piece of nonfiction about one of today's most important topics. The combination of highly-informative text with complex illustrated pages makes this book a useful teaching tool that students of many ages will get lost in. Still, it avoids being to technical or didactic. This book would be an excellent addition to school science units exploring the environment and climate.

4.5★
“We are inventing new and better ways to live in harmony with Earth. From world leaders to our own families it is time for everyone who can to make choices every single day that protect our precious planet.”

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”Billions of years ago, Earth was very hot.”

This is a simple introduction that illustrates how the Earth and oceans were formed. It explains that algae released oxygen which changed the atmosphere, allowing for other life to begin.

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“Life continued to evolve… giant dragonflies rested on ferns, amphibians waded into water, and huge scorpions and other bugs scuttled through slippery green forests.”

The cartoon dinosaurs are cute, but they were wiped out when a giant asteroid struck the earth and dust blacked out the sun.

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”The dinosaurs were plunged into cold darkness.”

But some life did survive and eventually became us. There’s a big gap in our history here. It goes straight from this dinosaur page to the following one, which is Western Civilisation in the 1850s. I would have expected a couple of illustrated pages with prehistoric animals and early humans before we got to factories. Instead, there is a quick paragraph saying that life evolved over millions of years.

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“People discovered how to release energy by burning fossil fuels. Humans began to burn oil, gas, and coal and this new energy changed everyone’s lives.”

This is followed with pictures of farm animals and town rubbish dumps, all of them releasing methane gas. Next we have scientists measuring the methane being released from bogs as well as studying the air trapped in ice bubbles from ancient ice to see what the air was like back then.

We are told about coral reefs dying and polar ice shrinking, creating problems for sea life as well as problems for the whole world with sea level rise.

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“Across the world, plants and animals flee or must adapt to this rapid change.”

People are on the move, too, escaping drought and rising seas, among other things.

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“This means that millions of people must walk, ride, fly, or sail away from their homes in search of new shelter, safety and food.”

They talk about the importance of educating girls, as this leads to smaller families. Also, when men move to the cities for work, the women who are left on the farms will be better farmers if they are educated.

Scientists are measuring all the changes and showing us how nature can slow down climate change, which gives the authors the opportunity to show a lovely picture of forests and the ocean.

The next page, however, is the Amazon rainforest being logged! We can see stacks of logs in a denuded area, heavy equipment, cattle in a deforested area, and a small camp of the displaced indigenous people in the distance, where they’ve been relegated.

Then we see solar and wind farms and tidal power.

“There are plenty of ways to use clean, green power to fight climate change” and it seems the children of the world are taking matters into their own hands.

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“These young activists are telling grown-ups that they care about the planet too!”

The final illustration is of lots of happy people recycling, planting trees, riding bikes, and having a plant-based burger BBQ.

I applaud the intention of the book and I very much like the illustrations and the style. I hope it gets the lesson across to both kids and the adults who will give this to them. [I really would have liked a woolly mammoth or two and some prehistoric cave-dwellers!]

Thanks to NetGalley and Frances Lincoln Children’s Books for the preview copy from which I’ve shared a few illustrations.

The Story of Climate Change takes the reader from the formation of the earth's atmosphere to today and beyond. While it acknowledges that if we don't do anything, there can be catastrophic results, it gives us hope and encourages our young generation to step up and do something. What I especially enjoy about this book is that it helps create the timeline and illustrate that the issues that we are facing now have slowly developed as the world has developed. It reminds us that "Through our mistakes, we now understand that it’s important to treat nature gently, rather than destroy it." A fabulous find.

A much needed book for the younger generations about the problems we are facing with our environment. Global warming and climate change are described simply enough for younger kids to understand and would be a great way to encourage thoughts and conversations about what we can do to help. The perfect way to deliver a fairly heavy and scientific topic in an easy to understand way. This would be a great book to have in classrooms and to use for topics like Earth Day or sustainability projects etc!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a review copy.

Climate change is happening all around us and kids of all ages are curious as to what it means. A great place to start is with THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE: A first book about how we can help save our planet.

Filled with colorful illustrations, the journey to understanding begins billions of years ago. This historical approach is a good one as it connects to where we are today.

Text paragraphs interspersed throughout provide a nice balance to the images and help guide the way. The final pages are the most important of all and give advice on what humans can do to solve the climate emergency. A handy glossary wraps things up with definitions to common climate change words like Greenhouse gas and Renewable energy.

The book would be a perfect choice for school and classroom libraries or for your future climate change activist at home.

This was a great book for kids. My kids ask questions about the environment regularly and this book tackled climate change in a great, user friendly, kid friendly way. To be honest, this book provided facts I didn't know about global warming. I read this with my own kids, as well as used in a literacy group with my school kids. All of the above loved it (1st/2nd/3rd grade at school and 7 and 10 year olds at home). Educational, but not in a boring/over the top way.

The Story of Climate Change has lovely illustrations and provides a timeline of events related to climate change for kids. I would recommend this book for middle-grade children to learn more facts about this very important issue. It would've been nice for the book to encourage kids to take action at the end though; I think it would've been more impactful and inspiring.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

The story of climate change is a beautifully and interestingly illustrated book for children about the effects of climate change through history from before the big bang to the present day and how environmental factors and humans have altered it through the ages.
This book is a fantastic way of explaining to children how climate change has occurred, what it means and what we can help to do to change things.
This book would be a great classroom resource for the topic of climate change.

The Story of Climate Change may be a children’s book, BUT I think it can be highly educational for both children and adults.

The fun illustrations are paired with brief explanations of the evolution of our planet and species that inhabit it, along with how climate started to really change (for the worst, mainly due to our own species…). Global warming is explained in an easy-to-understand way but also a very accurate and scientific way. It also contains several ways in which we can improve (and save) our planet’s climate and overall quality of life for everyone.

Though short, it goes through the many ways in which we have harmed our planet and continue to do so, which has led to severe changes in our climate, in our air quality and even how we’ve contributed to the endangerment and even extinction of several animal species.

But then, the many ways it also talks about on how we can change things, is highly informative and direct.

Now we can only hope that humans actually start taking that into account, because we only have one planet and we’re destroying it at an alarming rate.

This being a children’s book will, hopefully, teach our younger generations how not to make the mistakes we’ve made so far and grow up with a more planet-friendly mentality.

If we all start changing our approach on how we treat our planet, maybe, just maybe, there is still hope for us all.


Thank you kindly to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for my opinion and honest review.

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This is a great little book, so informative and so reader friendly. It opened up so many discussions and opened their eyes to the many ways in which we can change our practices to help alleviate the perils of environmental damage leading to climate change. We really enjoyed reading this and I’d highly recommend it.

The Story of Climate Change is an illustrated short book for kids by Catherine Barr & Steve Williams. Due out 2nd March 2021 from Quarto on their Frances Lincoln Children's Books imprint, it's 40 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Climate change affects every lifeform on the planet. Weather systems are more violent and unpredictable than ever, the average temperature is growing steadily, oceans are warming up, species are disappearing, and the changes are accelerating. This is an accessible, age appropriate book about what's causing the changes, how they are affecting life on planet Earth, and what can be done to slow the damage in the future. The book is science based, but not too technical. It has a good broad-based factual basis and includes a short capsule history from the early days of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago to the present day.

The art, by Amy Husband and Mike Love is appealing and full of small details. It's a colorful collage technique with pen, marker, and paint (created digitally according to the publishing info). The art enhances and tells the story. I liked the small "Easter Eggs" (like the bird eating an easy-to-find moth beside its darker, more camouflaged relative) hidden in the art which aren't explicitly explained. This will give older kids things to think about and explore later.

It's an upbeat and positive book, despite the critically threatening fact of climate change. I would recommend it for school and public library acquisition, home library, and classroom/homeschool use. Age appropriate from circa kindergarten - primary school kids. It would also make a good choice for a "read-to-me" book for babies to small children.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I got this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE provides a timeline of the changes of earth that's easily understood by children while still being engaging and informative. The book does a good job of bringing the issue at hand down to the individual level and providing the global effects on others around the world.
I would add this book to my classroom library to spark discussions with my students.

As someone who is trying to be greener and trying to raise children who are aware of their carbon footprint, I thought this book was a great tool to have on hand to show them the bigger picture. This book was really informative on the whole climate change issue and they didn’t sugar coat anything. They provided the backstory and history of how the world has gone through climate change in the past, how mankind has not been treating the planet kindly and how we can make a change in the world. This is a great story and is a great opener for the discussion of climate change. It has great illustrations and the information is great. I would easily consider this for older children, but my 6 and 4 year old still enjoyed learning from this book.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a free copy.

Delivering this important climate change message to young audience is not an easy task. The book uses simple terms as well as easy to understand graphics to catches the attention of the young reader. My young kids enjoyed reading the book. This book is filled with lots of information. While i think the little ones won't remember all of it, I think they are able to retain some key messages delivered by eye catching graphics.

Just wonderful. A gorgeous book, with accessible information, that informs the reader about the progression of climate change as the world as developed. I will definitely be buying a copy for my classroom.

A wonderfully illustrated book on the story of climate change.
It breaks down the evolution of climate change in an easy to understand manner for children of all ages. It will certainly shape the minds of our future generation. This book should be in every primary school library.

I requested and received a temporary ebook copy from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

"The Story of Climate Change" was a quick, easy-to-read guide to Earth's atmosphere's history for young readers. Parents should be comfortable putting this book in the hands of their children, their hopes of encouraging an inquisitive mindset realistic. As long as the light-hearted illustrations don't distract from the factual information, this is a great guide to climate change for young minds.

However, I do encourage parents to read this book with their child to help unfold a few "plot" holes when they pop up, such as ambitious vocabulary and what seems like out-of-order pages. As soon as you finish reading the timeline, which I felt did not benefit the reader's understanding of climate change, you come across explanations to key words which only appear for the first time pages later. Not to mention the bystander attitude of the author! The children reading this book are the ones who will someday be in charge of saving the world, and although we can't terrify them with threats of Earth's demise, we can't let them believe that everything will simply work out in the end like Barr is allowing in "The Story of Climate Change." It is correct that the title of this book is not "The Story of Climate Change and How to Fix It" but very little is done to empower readers or spark a passion for change.

To conclude, this book teaches a lot of facts but doesn't inspire. It is up to you as a parent or reader to decide if motivating action is important!

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books for the digital advance reading copy of this book.

I thought this was a well laid out book, depicting the history of Earth's climate, highlighting how humans have damaged it, and the things we can all do to improve our planet.