A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids
ProgressiveKid's publishing imprint
announces its first title:
A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids
Understanding Climate Change
and What You Can Do About It
Book Description
In this important new book, kids, parents, and teachers will find the very latest information about the causes and effects of climate change, how people are working to reduce it, and ways kids and their families and schools can join the fight. Endorsed by clean-energy leader U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee, climate change activist and author Bill McKibben, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, <em>A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids</em> teaches and inspires through clear and accessible writing, engaging illustrations, hands-on activities, cool and hot facts, eco-hero features, and a hopeful and empowering message to get kids involved in confronting global warming and developing their best selves through such work. Parents who read the book with their kids are likely to find themselves learning a lot along the way.
A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids is suitable for home and classroom use. It meets national science and social studies curriculum standards. Teacher resources are available on the Teacher Tools section of the Green Goat Books website.
Author: Julie Hall
Illustrator: Sarah Lane
Ages: 9 and up
ISBN: 978-0-615-15585-2
Format: Full-color, paperback, perfect-bound, 88 pages
Advance Praise
Cool kids can only get cooler once they take in the vibrant and colorful vision of change in this book. Every page offers a morsel of insight relevant to kids' lives and the planet's future. Cool kids may have to fight their moms and dads for the chance to read it first! Once both generations catch the spirit of hope from this book, we'll change the nation--and the world.
Jay Inslee, U.S. Congressman and coauthor of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
What an important book for kids and grownups to read. From down-to-earth descriptions of the greenhouse effect to what's really going on in our climate, A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids empowers readers with solid, no-nonsense information as well as giving them tools to make a difference. With clear, accessible text, rich images, and thought-provoking activities, this book is a must-have in any science classroom and is a powerful tool to put in the hands of all of our children.
Lynn Brunelle, Emmy-winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy and author of Pop Bottle Science
What's so dangerous about global warming is that it leaves many people feeling hopeless, as if nothing they could do would matter. This fine book makes it clear that that's not the case, and from changing lightbulbs to changing laws it shows young people how they are able to help.
Bill McKibben, founder of Step It Up and the National Day of Climate Action and author of Deep Economy
All kids will benefit from reading this book. A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids provides young readers with the knowledge and tools to tackle what will undoubtedly be one of the greatest issues facing their generation.
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Look Inside
A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids: Understanding Climate Change and What You Can Do About It
Author: Julie Hall
Illustrator: Sarah Lane
In this important new book by ProgressiveKid cofounder Julie Hall, kids, parents, and teachers will find the very latest information about the causes and effects of climate change, how people are working to reduce it, and ways kids and their families and schools can join the fight. Endorsed by clean-energy leader U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee, climate change activist and author Bill McKibben, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and Emmy-winning children's science writer Lynn Brunelle, A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids teaches and inspires through clear and accessible writing, engaging illustrations, hands-on activities, cool and hot facts, eco-hero features, and a hopeful and empowering message to get kids involved in confronting global warming and developing their best selves through such work. Parents who read the book with their kids are likely to find themselves learning a lot along the way. For ages 9 and up.
Cool It: Evolve Now
Wear this righteous shirt and tell everyone you know to join the fight against global warming. This is a companion to our book for kids on climate change A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids (learn more at Green Goat Books). The icons stand for recycling, supporting wildlife, using green transit, going organic, using renewable energy, and changing the way you think and live. Made in the U.S.A. with 100 percent organic cotton and water-based inks. Youth sizes in soil brown. Size category E. Get the Cool Kid youth gift set: It includes A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids and free gift wrap.