Climate: Our Changing World

by Andy Sima, Jenny Miriam (Illustrator)

Overview

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Climate change affects all of us, but by working together, we can help make the world safer for ourselves and future generations.

From the smallest piece of plastic in the oceans to the largest glacier at the north or south pole, scientists can see the effects of climate change. And it is all caused by burning fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—that release carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. But there is still time to protect what we have if we work together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807512067
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	06/22/2023
Series:	ABDO Science in Action Series
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	585,022
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1130L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Andy Sima graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major in environmental sustainability and creative writing. He was the winner of the 2020 Janelle Joseph Award for his environmental writing piece “Burn Zone” and has had his fiction published in Cornell’s Rainy Day magazine. He currently lives in Minneapolis.

Jenny Miriam is an illustrator based in the wonderfully creative city of Bristol, United Kingdom. She has a BA in graphic and packaging design and an MA in multimedia and has enjoyed eighteen years of experience working as a digital designer and illustrator for creative agencies, both in-house and freelance.

Editorial Reviews

2023-01-25
A broad overview of the causes and consequences of the latest onset of climate change.

Sima simplifies his topic, sometimes a little too much: “Anything that uses fossil fuel electricity produces greenhouse gases.” But by framing modern climate change as chiefly driven by human-caused increases in the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere and hammering on the notion that the only effective way to combat it is collective action, he gives young readers easily graspable starting points for understanding both the problem and what to do about it. He also properly asserts the interconnectedness of rising worldwide temperatures and challenges like air pollution, deforestation, waste plastics in the ocean, and the destructive practices of what he calls “Aggravated Agriculture” and highlights the significant roles of several Indigenous populations in maintaining sustainable environments. Sima’s suggested activities for readers rarely go beyond “organize a club”—still, though couched in generalities, his scary references to the “sixth mass extinction” and already-evident threats to human civilization are provocative enough to prompt concern…and, likely, active responses. Miriam’s brightly hued cartoon views of groups of racially diverse children smilingly engaged in green activities or speaking out through megaphones do lighten the overall tone.

Occasionally simplistic but pulls together a host of related eco-issues. (glossary, recommended reading) (Nonfiction. 9-11)

Kirkus Reviews

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