Oct 1, 2009
101 ways you can help save the planet before you’re 12! by Joanne O’Sullivan
This is fun interactive and colourful book aimed and kids and parents with a curiosity for helping the environment. With simplified facts and stats, lots of online resources and practical advice, this book is relevant and useful. Both my kids were interested in some of the ideas presented and liked the look of the various projects they could get stuck into (such as making a solar oven).
Kids are naturally curious and intelligent and aware, they ask questions and notice their surrounding, they are not yet jaded by impossibilities instead they are full of what is possible. They love to recycle, to go camping, to time their showers, to grow vegetables, make their own soap, keep a worm farm – these are all activities that are in the book and that will fuel your kids imaginations while teaching them about the environment.
Fantastic book – as an adult I also really appreciated the larger font, the fun photos, the short and to the point explanations – all perfect for this age group.
Book review by Kathreen Ricketson of whipup.net