Climate Change, The Choice is Ours: The Facts, Our Future, and Why There's Hope!

by David Miles, Albert Pinilla (Illustrator)

Overview

Climate change: would you leave it to chance?

With colorful illustrations, simple text, and research from trusted sources like NASA, NOAA, and the United Nations, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours is the interactive book that outlines the causes of climate change and gently explores its consequences like rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and more. Though not shy about uncomfortable realities, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours also emphatically teaches hope for the future and includes timely recommendations for what kids and their families can do. Most importantly, the book’s built-in spinner offers readers a choice on every page: spin the arrow and leave climate change to chance or do something about it!

From the book:

Speaking Up

Solving climate change will require that individuals, communities, businesses, and nations to work together for the common good. Bringing people together for the common good. Not everyone agrees that climate change is happening or how serious it is. But if people speak out and show that climate change matters to them, more governments and businesses will take it seriously and decide to act. You can be one of those people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952239007
Publisher:	Bushel & Peck Books
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	448,925
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

David Miles is an award-winning and bestselling author and illustrator of over 40 books, including The Side-by-Side Declaration of Independence, Book, The Interactive Constitution, Allegro, Unicorn and Horse, and other titles. He has worked as a designer, illustrator, and creative director, and he now runs Bushel & Peck Books with his wife, Stephanie. He's been named a CYBILS Award Finalist, Publishers Weekly Star Watch Nominee, Trvst Changemaker, New York Book Show Award Winner, and Bill Fisher Award Finalist, among other accolades. He lives in Fresno, California, with his family. 

Albert Pinilla is a freelance illustrator based between Barcelona and Finland. He has worked for many publishers and companies including Editorial Casals, Editorial Sàpiens, Diset S.A, Goula, Editorial San Pablo, Descobrir, Namaka magazine, Editorial Mi Cuento, P/A/N, Capçalera, Davos Comunicación S.L, La Agencia de Publicidad S.A (Spain), Hannacroix Creek Books, Bookworks, Highlights magazine (U.S.), Petit Dimoni magazine (France), Headu Giochi (Italy), Igloo Books (United Kingdom), Schildts & Söderstrströms (Finland), and Akotek (Norway).

Editorial Reviews

2020-07-28
Climate change presented as an opportunity for choices.

Billed as “interactive,” this title hopes to engage its readers while offering explanations of the causes and potential effects of climate change and choices we can make to fight climate change. The pages are die cut with a uniformly sized central circle, allowing readers to spin an arrow embedded on the inside back cover to answer the decidedly leading question “would you chance it?” Each left-hand page loosely covers a topic; each right-hand page offers choices and actions the arrow can point to (“eat smart & cut emissions / don’t eat smart,” for instance). After explaining the major concepts, Miles goes on to describe effects of climate change on sea levels, weather, agriculture, ecosystems, disease. He shows that forested areas are shrinking and why they are so important in curbing the greenhouse effect. Finally he gives examples of people, young and old and around the world, who have spoken up about a variety of issues, including present-day climate activists. There is plentiful information, presented in short paragraphs and a disturbingly small font, plus definitions of important terms, questions to think about, and potential hands-on activities. The information is responsibly sourced but often rather general. A page on “Countries Working Together” doesn’t mention U.S. plans to withdraw from the World Climate Agreement. Sadly, the presentation concludes with an unsourced and quite-possibly-not-“Native American Proverb.”

Choose a less dizzying approach. (notes, further reading) (Nonfiction. 8-11)

Kirkus Reviews