A Hands-On Guide to
Our Changing Climate
Our Changing Climate
Written by Christiane Dorion
Illustrated by Beverley Young
Templar, 2011
$17.99, ages 7-11, 20 pages
Everyone's talking about climate change, but ask them to tell you what it is and chances are they'll get tongue-tied.
The subject is so complex and hotly debated that it's hard for children, let alone many adults, to digest what it means.
And unless you know what climate change is all about, how do you start to care about it?
In this wonderful movable guide to weather, the team behind last year's acclaimed How the World Works demystifies climate change by sorting through terms kids need to know to understand it, like what is the water cycle and ozone.
Almost the entire book is about weather, and it's only after readers work through the fundamentals, from how the sun causes weather to where rain comes from and why the wind blows, do the book's creators address climate change.
