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by Jean Davies Okimoto

“Ice is melting. We are losing our home. The time has come for action. This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.” Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, written by Jean Davies Okimoto and illustrated by Jeremiah Trammell, is a children’s picture book that addresses climate change through the eyes of a polar bear named Winston living in Churchill, Canada, which is a real location known for polar bear sightings. The story follows Winston, a cigar-smoking polar bear, as he notices the ice melting and the serious impact that human activities have on the polar bears’ home. After realizing he too contributes to the problem, Winston gives up smoking cigars and encourages the other polar bears to take a stand against the tourists. Together, the polar bears hold a peaceful protest to urge humans to take action against global …

by Kristin Cashore

‘I’m going to make up for it,’ she said, not knowing what it meant, but certain, in that moment, that it was true. ‘I’m going to protect you.’

by Katherine Applegate

“This tree … It’s almost like it’s human”

World Without Fish

by Mark Kurlansky

“You cannot afford to be passive. … The survival of not only the oceans but of our world is at stake”

by Jamie Margolin

“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.” 

by Juana Martinez-Neal

“The forest needs help! / We all must answer.”