Menu
by Soosh
“And from that day on, my classmates and I picked up any garbage we found on the shore so that Mermaid could return someday.”
by Huỳnh Him Liên, Phùng Nguyên Quang
“When you don’t know a place, it can be scary …. But what you know can make a difference, turn the unfamiliar into family. I get to trace the edges of my path.”
“She guards all the creatures in all the oceans—the black manta rays sleek like shadows, the shining parrot fish, the tiny krill who swim with millions of other krill to look big. And the whales who are big.”
“Rather than imagining things, she thought of it as paying attention to things that no one else noticed and seeing what could be – the way a weed could be a flower once you noticed its beauty. Everything had hidden possibilities, and if she listened closely enough, she sometimes heard whispers of what those possibilities might be.”
by Anne Wynter
“Before anyone finds out how high they can climb, Nell picks up a seed.”
by Loll Kirby
“I am smart enough to read this book. I care enough to hear the news. I know enough to make the change. I am old enough to save the planet”.
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.”
“We gotta be careful not to hurt the things around us, because nothing’s really gone forever… everything leaves a little mark”
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.
