by Adam Gidwitz
“Brand-new friend. Terrifying teacher. Mythical animal. Breaking and entering. First day at a new school.”
“Who is it that speaks, / sings and melodies / from those murmuring beaks?”
“Thank you for beginnings, / for endings, / for lifetimes. Thank you for being / our home”
by Shaun Tan
“It’s hard to convey how natural it all seemed, and how even the first conversations began without us really noticing.”
by Kate Messner
“Over the pond, the wind gives us a push and stirs the light-dappled leaves on shore. There on a branch, a new goldfinch teeters, finally ready to fly. Under the pond, tadpoles are changing, learning to hop. They’re losing tails, growing legs, growing up.”
by Shaun Tan
“We promised to set things right. But so many years have passed now, and … we just don’t know how to get it down”
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.
More coming soon!
Climate Lit is an initiative of the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.
