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The Nature Generation's Green Earth Book Award Winner 2025
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2025
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of 2024
New York Public Library Best Books of 2024
A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year 2025
A nonfiction picture book about amazing ways that the Earth removes carbon from the air, and amazing ways people can help, offering a fresh and hopeful perspective on climate change.
The Earth has a problem: there's too much carbon in the air.
Luckily, the Earth also has amazing powers to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere-like the power of kelp, mangroves, and dirt. Although these powers alone cannot get us out of the climate crisis we're facing, the Earth has another important power: the power of people! People have the power to change, protect, innovate, and invent.
In this informational picture book, Debbie Levy and Alex Boersma paint an encouraging yet honest picture of the problems at hand and some of the ways that we can address them. Thanks to the power of nature and the ingenuity of people, change is in the air!
The perfect book if you're looking for:
-a hopeful, accessible, and science-packed book about climate change for kids
-the perfect read for Earth Day
-fascinating facts about cool and surprising ways that Earth heals itself
-a STEM picture book that explains the science of carbon and its roles in our world
Debbie Levy
Debbie Levy is the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of many books for young people, including the I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark; This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality (with Jo Ann Allen Boyce); The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells; A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools; The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing after World War II; and Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice. Her books have received many honors and awards, including the Sydney Taylor Book Award, National Jewish Book Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor, and the Orbis Pictus Honor. Before writing books for young people, Debbie was a newspaper editor, and before that, she was a lawyer.
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