“This is a book that turns itself into dozens of eco-projects to inspire you to think more about the planet we all call home.”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2020
Continental Setting: Unspecified
by Dave Eggers
“It is a tendency of the human species to see themselves in everything, to assume all living things, animals in particular, are simply corollaries to humans, but in this book, that is not the case. Here, the dogs are dogs, the birds are birds, goats are goats, the Bison Bison.”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+, Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2023
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“For the fate of Fausto did not matter to them.”
Recommended audience: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2019
Continental Setting: Unspecified
by Lamar Giles
“So many times in history it’s the youth who see the clearest and can save the day”.
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2022
Continental Setting: North America, United States
by Caryl Hart
“Soon I shall grow a whole forest”
Recommended audience: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2022
Continental Setting: Unspecified
by Maja Lunde
“But bees cannot be tamed. They can only be tended, receive our care.”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2015
Continental Setting: Asia, China, England, Europe, North America, United States
by Jan Wahl
“Overwhelmed by their beauty, the man cannot move.”
“One snowflake will melt on its own, but billions of them together … are powerful enough to change the face of a planet.”
“Who is it that speaks, / sings and melodies / from those murmuring beaks?”
“Kiri scanned the forest, spotting the panther less than a stone’s throw from where she crouched. Moonlight glinted off the panther’s fiery green eyes as the creature studied her. ‘Follow’, whispered a voice that sounded less like her mother, and more like the hiss of a cat.”
Recommended audience: Ages 8-13
Year Published:
Continental Setting: Unspecified
by Piers Torday
“How could I be so wrong? The stag was right—we can’t trust any other humans. How can you ever trust someone who wants to eat you?”
“Home might be dying, and drier than the bone of a long dead animal, but it’s still home. I don’t want another one.”
“This comic book is brave. It is like no other. It asks YOU, the reader, to don the tights, the capes, and go out and become the superheroes who will change our ecological crisis for the better.”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2021
Continental Setting: Across the World
by Joan He
“People wanted the quickest, easiest solutions. To solve their most immediate problems, they could steal from any future other than their own.”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2021
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“Yes, I know people in the old days lived in giant mega-cities smothered in dirty clouds … and parts of the honoured and natural world died and the seas rose and we invaded the wild areas and new diseases took hold and killed most of their children and now we have to stay in our townships and keep our hair short and our hands clean and not make a peep of pollution and not increase our numbers even by one. … Three hundred and fifty kind, ethical, truthful people on seven hundred hectares or not at all.”
Recommended audience: Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2022
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“I’m just a kid. What can I do? / Someone must help us. It’s now up to you.”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2017
Continental Setting: Across the World
“I believe that someday we will be able to undo all the damage the Schmoke brothers have done to the world and its creatures.”
by Adam Gidwitz
“Brand-new friend. Terrifying teacher. Mythical animal. Breaking and entering. First day at a new school.”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2019
Continental Setting: North America, United States
by Bill Peet
“This world of our has gone sour. We’ve got to get out of here quick”
by M.H. Clark
“Today we will keep our eyes open for tiny, perfect things.”
Recommended audience: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2018
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“Animals and plants depend on one another, so if something happens to one kind of creature, it usually influences many others. And this law even applies to you”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2022
Continental Setting: Across the World
by Kate Messner
“Down in the dirt is a whole busy world of earthworms and insects, digging and building and stirring up soil. They’re already working down in the dirt.”
Recommended audience: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2015
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“I am one thing. / I am many things. / I am water.”
“We are stewards of the Earth / Our spirits have not been broken / We are water protectors. WE STAND!”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2020
Continental Setting: North America, United States
“We see that a world in crisis offers us an opportunity to build a more just one in its place. . . . The time has come for us to put aside everything that divides us and rise together like the oceans to turn the tides.”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2017
Continental Setting: North America, United States
