Climate Lit

Publication Years: 2021

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“I am fox! I go wherever I go!”

by Shaun Tan

“After all, dear beloved, I need you as much as you need me. And where could we live if not in the bottomless den or each other’s shadow?”

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“In the room at the back of our apartment”

by Shaun Tan

“But maybe pigs suffer in a way we can’t know. Who can say for sure what another animal is feeling?”

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“Respect the sheep”

by Shaun Tan

“After all, dear beloved, I need you as much as you need me. And where could we live if not in the bottomless den or each other’s shadow?”

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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis 

by Vanessa Nakate

“We believe that at the center of this effort must be a genuine commitment not only to environmental, racial, and climate justice, but to the empowerment of girls and women, who are facing the crisis most acutely and are at the forefront of efforts to combat it.”

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

by Becky Chambers

“It is difficult for anyone born and raised in human infrastructure to truly internalize the fact that your view of the world is backward… even if you know that the wilderness is the default state of things…. you will still struggle to understand that human constructs are carved out, and overlaid, that these are the places that are the in-between, not the other way around.”

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A Snake Falls to Earth

by Darcie Little Badger

“They aren’t human, they’re from the Reflecting World, Grandma. … Aren’t they wonderful?”

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AstroNuts Mission Three: The Perfect Planet

by Jon Scieszka

“That’s it, Homo Sapiens—the hard and inescapable truth. I am your Perfect Planet. I will take care of you. But you have to take care of me”

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Begin with a Bee

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Liza Ketchum, Phyllis Root

“And here’s the wonder: her tiny body (not even an inch) holds everything she needs to create a whole colony of bees.”

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Don’t Look Up

by Adam McKay, David Sirota

“Don’t look up! Just don’t look up!”

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Every Leaf a Hallelujah

by Ben Okri

“You humans seem to think that we trees are just decoration. But we are beings like you. We feel. We respond to love and attention. You should see how we glow when we are loved.”

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Green Rising

by Lauren James

“It was impossible not to care for the plants around her when she could feel their drowsy, contented vibrations as they soaked up the sunlight and fresh rainwater. In a best-case scenario, Dad would understand when she explained that she needed to take responsibility for their pollution.”

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Hello, Earth! Poems to Our Planet

by Joyce Sidman

“Earth, we know you can’t answer all our questions in words. You answer in other ways.”

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Hello, Tree

by Ana Crespo

“And the animals ran away. Even the insects tried to flee… The girl and her family left, too. All I could do…was wait.”

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How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Steffof

“Movements make a difference. You can be the friction, the resistance that is needed to slow down the machine that is setting the world on fire”

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If Bees Disappeared

by Lily Williams

“From food to medicine to clothing, bees help keep our lives going.”

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