By Loll Kirby
Twelve real children around the world, each on their own spread, each doing one specific thing about climate change.
There's no story. There are twelve children and they are all real and you get one page each. Felix in Germany, who was nine when he decided the world needed more trees and started an outfit that has now planted them by the billion. Adeline in Indonesia, who was twelve when she started a group that plants mangroves and coral. Eunita in Kenya running a clean-up. Vihaan and Nav in Delhi doing something about the rubbish. A child in Australia, a child in Brazil, a child in the States. Each spread says who they are, how old they were when they started, what the problem looked like where they lived, and exactly what they did about it. Then the back of the book turns to your child and lists things they could do this week.
Your child has heard that the planet is in trouble and has nowhere to put that, and this book is the answer, because every single page is somebody their size doing something concrete in a place you can point to on a map. It's the most useful book on this list for turning worry into an afternoon. And because it's twelve short pieces rather than one argument, a class can split it up, take a child each, and go find out what happened next.