I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. This was a beautiful non-fiction picture book about the earth and how we must listen to it before it's too late. The illustrations are lovely, and the words aren't too hard for young readers.

Thanks to Netgalley and Tilbury House Publishers for the ARC of this!

Simple, well illustrated, book to talk about how humans can do better at taking care of the Earth. I enjoyed sharing this with my daughter.

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Listen to the Earth is a wonderful and educational ode to our planet. The images are stunning and the writing impactful, yet easy for young readers to understand.

A fabulous book for classrooms and for someone wanting to educate the younger generation to make better environmental choices

This is a really neat book. The book is based on carbon footprints and the idea of "Earth Overshoot Day." Essentially, there is a day each year where we hit our maximum pollution/natural resource use for the year and this date tells us how excessive our impact on the environment has in terms of sustainability and our future. In the past this "Earth Overshoot Day" was closer to the end of the calendar year, but recently it was in July! The book teaches ways that we could reduce our impact, thus moving the overshoot day to closer to the end of the calendar year in the future. The main text is written in a way that children can understand, while there is a vertical text box on the edge of most pages that explains one concept related to sustainability such as renewable energy or replanting trees. At the end of the book there is a breakdown of what we would have to do in order to move our overshoot day from July to December.

There are lots of things I love about this book. I love the concept as it is relatively new and unique. I think the illustrations are super cool and would love to use them as an inspiration for art. There is a good amount of text per page on the main section and it is written in really interesting language and style. I love the idea that you could look at numbers, dates, sustainability etc. So many curricular connections in one book!

While I really love the idea behind the Earth Overshoot day, I do think that the text boxes are hard to read and written in a very different way from the rest of the book. I understand the choices the author made and think that the thought process may have been that the text boxes are almost optional, that they are kind of like additional information. My only criticism is that I think their wording and placement are difficult to read and it may have been better as either an appendix or be written in a style that is more fitting to the rest of the text. Again, I really like the idea and the content, I just think that it is a bit hard to read (both in terms of legibility and comprehension) and I think that the book might end up missing its potential in some ways. It still gets 5 stars from me though!!

I really like this book and would definitely consider purchasing a copy for my classroom library. I think there are so many possibilities for using this book with students in many subject areas, which is a huge factor when choosing books for the classroom. I would definitely recommend this book to teachers of students of any grade. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book.

Listen to the Earth-This one will be good with my environmental activism collection. I enjoyed the illustrations. This is about Earth Overshoot Day and it gives practical suggestions about sustainability that make sense to kids.

I have such mixed feelings on this book that I haven't quite figured out how to put into words yet. The illustrations are beautiful and the message is more important now that ever. I think Listen to the Earth is an age- and developmentally-appropriate way to introduce kids to climate change and the way our planet is changing for the worse due to human activity.

I can't decide if I'm being too pedantic in wishing this book had more to it. There is so much nuance to this topic that I understand is unfair to expect a picture book to include, but this type of book and the "individual choice" narrative has been taught for at least 20 years (probably longer, but 20 years since I've been in that age group.) Combating climate change is going to require a huge societal shift and I can't help but feel a bit jaded in once again having a book that tells children that recycling will make everything better.

All of that said, I believe in the importance of starting kids off strong with this message about climate change and I do plan on recommending this for purchase.

In this picture book talks about the balance of using natural resources to sustain life but balance it without overtaking from Earth. This is a different twist on other picture books on the topic of protecting the earth. The text is supplemented with colorful illustrations reinforcing the text. Overall this would be a really nice book to add to a classroom library or other settings where you want to talk about responsible usage of natural materials and environmentalism.