This is an excellent book for kids and teens to access encouraging, easy to understand, accurate information about climate change. It uses colorful illustrations and short snippets of text to explain the difference between climate and weather, the biggest causes of climate change, the effects, and how to help.

My favorite section was an illustration of two common false lines of talk that dominate online— deniers who say that climate has always changed or that it’s not causing problems or human made, and those on the other side who say things like we are all going to die and we’ve past the point to save ourselves. I literally just had this discussion with my panicked youngest child after she saw a TikTok with 300,000 likes of a woman saying LOL when kids talk about what they are going to do when they grow up because with climate change, babies, you’re not growing up. That section of the book says all the things I reassured her with, especially that those people are making money off those posts and they have something to gain in posting them.

I had one tiny quibble, when it says not to put in fake grass because real grass hosts tiny wildlife and is better for the environment. Lawns are an enormous waste of water and cause more damage because of the herbicides used on them and fuel used in constantly mowing them. Native planting is so much better, reducing our lawns as much as possible to grow pollinator friendly native plants, edible landscaping, garden crops and so on. My state (Minnesota) even gives homeowners grants to do this. It’s a tiny quibble though, and an otherwise excellent book.

I read a temporary online copy of this book for review.