The Story of Climate Change

This beautifully illustrated book lightly covers the early history of planet earth until about the industrial revolution. From then to now it more closely details the impact that humans and their excesses around the globe have had on air, water, and the very ground beneath our feet. I discussed it with grandchildren ages 12-7 on Zoom and was told that while they'd like a copy, I was preaching to the choir!
I loved it and think some of us should buy a copy for the local libraries!
I requested and received a temporary ebook copy from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

An informative introductory book about the Climate Change. Concepts are introduced simply with beautiful, vibrant illustrations. The book goes through history and explains how humans have altered our environment. Though it gives some suggestions, I wish the final part of the book listed more actions we can take individually to improve our carbon footprint and demands we can make of companies and government to act ethically with sustainability in mind. This book would be great for grades 3-5 students.

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This was a very useful non-fiction book about Climate Change, and I really appreciate that it goes from the very beginning up until now. The book provides some key context for the reader to understand climate change and is using the pictures as a key tool when doing this. In the final part, which focuses on the present day, it also comes up with some suggestions to what the reader can do to help the world and minimize the effect they have on climate change. My biggest wish for this book would have to spend a little more time on the different time periods, and try to make those a little more engaging, as well as making the suggestions in the final few spreads more prominent. If the reader reads it quickly they might not even realize that those tips are meant for them to utilize in their everyday lives.

Overall a decent non-fiction book for younger primary school pupils tho!

This book is a thorough overview of climate change science for elementary schoolers. Some of it was very dense and not super engaging, but will be a good addition to an elementary school science book collection.

I loved the colors and illustrations/graphics of this book. I found it to be very informative and engaging. I think my 2.5 year old would definitely like it and even I learned a few things!

Awesome graphics depicting the events of global warming. It is also incredibly easy to understand. Well-written and highly recommend!

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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.

This book begins billions of years ago when the earth was very hot. Children then learn how over time temperatures cooled and oceans were formed. From there, readers see the many changes that have taken place on the planet in a process that occurred over many, many years. They learn that some of these changes have had consequences that can hurt the climate, as for example with methane build up. The ways in which people, plants, animals and more have been impacted are matter of factly laid out. That could feel scary. However, the author ends the book with a reminder of the things that we can all do to improve the quality of our environment and world thus empowering kids.

The illustrations in this title are involving and colorful. There are some amusing captions embedded in them. They will keep the interest of the kids to whom this book is directed.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title. I think that this book does a very good job in discussing a topic that kids should know about.

Climate change is one of the topics that I feel is not too early to introduce to kids.

This book introduces climate change in the most easily digestible formats.

There are gorgeous illustrations and a story like format which makes this book very appealing.

The book covers in depth the complete cycle of climate change. This would be a great addition to any child's bookshelf

What I love about this book
1) The story telling and illustrations make this otherwise dry topic stand out and make it very interesting
2) It gives some solutions on how we could actually try to counter climate change
3) The awareness that this book can create amongst young readers.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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 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.


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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.

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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.

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.