“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”
“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
“We are destroying the habitats—the homes—of all these plants and animals … Nature, the wilderness, is fighting back.”
“This tree … It’s almost like it’s human”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2017
Continental Setting: North America, United States
by Micha Archer
“I wonder.” “Me too.”
Recommended audience: Ages 0-3, Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2021
Continental Setting: Unspecified
“You cannot afford to be passive. … The survival of not only the oceans but of our world is at stake”
Recommended audience: Ages 14+
Year Published: 2011
Continental Setting: Across the World
by Jason Chin
“In the vast cosmic web, in the Milky Way, in the solar system, there is a small blue planet called Earth.”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7, Ages 8-13
Year Published: 2020
Continental Setting: Across the World
“This is the book I desperately wished I had when I was fourteen and just starting my activism journey, with no clue of what I was getting into.”
“The forest needs help! / We all must answer.”
Recommended audience: Ages 4-7
Year Published: 2021
Continental Setting: Peru, South America, The Amazon
Earth is in a state of climate emergency. Our mission is to promote climate literacy as a means to transition to an ecological civilization. We offer you the resources to teach about climate change with literature, film, and other media for young people.
Climate Lit is an initiative of the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.
