Climate Change

by Tom Jackson, Cristina Guitian (Illustrations)

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our nations today—but what is it? Hasn’t it always been happening? What is making it worse? Why do some people deny its happening? 

The concept of climate change and all of its implications is discussed as part of the What's the Issue series. What's the Issue asks ‘what’s all the fuss about?’ It reviews what is at stake when we think about climate change, with the aim of helping young people to understand this difficult subject and provide them with the tools to inform their own opinions on the issue. 

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

96 pages, Paperback

Published April 21, 2020

About the author

"I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism). I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.

But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.

I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/

Reviews

[Natalie all_books_great_and_small · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a great book for children of primary school age to read on the subject of climate change, what it is and what happens. This book gives some great information for children to learn and understand what its all about and then make up their own ideas from the information provided. Thus would be a great topical book to have within a classroom and would help children with for and against discussions too.

[Paula · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was quite informative, but sadly the information provided in it wouldn't stick. The layout of the pages were some cool illustrations with many post-its on it with different kinds of information. I found it hard to know in what order now to read the texts, and was just generally missing a kind of "guideline". At the end of every page a lot of new questions were asked which never got answered, and I found that really disappointing.

The book was okay, I liked the information provided but do not know what to do with it now. The illustrations were really cool though! Really liked those :)

I received a free copy of this book by NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

[kepz_lovesreading · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is quite an in depth look at what climate change is and what can be done to try and slow it down. It is definitely a book designed for kids with colourful pages and nice graphics. It does have a lot of information in it and can be a little bit all over the place at times. I like that it posed questions to the readers about certain things related to climate change so they can think about the answers.
It would suit more advanced older school children interested in the environment and sciences, as the book does contain quite a lot of information.
Thanks to Netgalley.com and Quarto Publishing for this eARC copy.

[JL Dixon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to read this book to better understand climate change. Unfortunately, while the book undoubtedly contains the facts, the design is so busy and all over the place, it makes it almost impossible to navigate round or assimilate any information. I found it difficult to retain anything I had just read as there seemed to be no coherent narrative. I showed my 13 year old nephew and he said it just looked like someone had stuck a load of random post it notes to a page...

[Traci · Rating 5 out of 5]

The information is presented in a way that challenges kid's to think, form opinions, consider the pro's and cons of potential solutions, etc.
Great for kids who want an in-depth understanding of climate change but don't want to just read boring facts.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Packed full of information but just too technical. I can’t imagine many kids would finish this, let alone enjoy it.

[Petricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice for kids, educational & interesting.