What non-fiction books can be used to explain climate change to children?

Question

It will be useful to have a collection of non-fiction books that helps children to understand the subject of climate change.

Answer 1

Climate change is a popular topic and most bookshops & libraries will have a few books on the subject. Here's a variety of non-fiction books covering different aspects of climate change.

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Title - Author	Age	Info	Pages
Where do polar bears live? - Sarah L. Thomson	4-11	An introduction to global warming through polar bears' life in the Arctic. Also explains why the world is getting warmer, how that is affecting polar bears & what we can do. Also available as Video & eBook. Teaching resources  available.	40
What's the point of being green? - Jacqui Bailey	6-17	Book on current green issues, main focus being climate change. Contains interesting facts, tips & jokes. Covers greenhouse effect, carbon footprint, fossil fuels, alternative energy, transport, trees, food shortages, waste, pollution.	96
What happens if the rainforests disappear? - Mary Colson	6-17	Explains how rainforests help in climate control & how deforestation, mining, drilling for oil, crop plantations & global warming threatens rainforests & people living there. Gives scenarios of how the world would be in years 2050, 2100 & 2200 if rainforest clearing continues.	32
How carbon footprints work - Nick Hunter	8-11	Explains what carbon footprint is, how personal carbon footprint can be calculated & reduced, concepts of carbon trading & offsetting.	32
Climate change - John Woodward	8-17	Details - supported with images - covering everything about climate change including feedbacks, tipping points, natural climate change, our carbon culture, oceanic research, predicting future climates & what scares the scientists. Also available as eBook.	72
Gaia warriors - Nicola Davies	9-16	Interviews with people of countries affected by climate change and scientists, campaigners, students, business owners & others all over the world doing something to combat climate change.	192
No one is too small to make a difference - Greta Thunberg	9+	A collection of 11 speeches by climate activist Greta Thunberg. Videos and text of some speeches here. Also available as eBook & audioBook.	80
How we know what we know about our changing climate - Lynne Cherry, Gary Braasch	10-14	Focuses on how scientists have determined that Earth's climate is changing - using migrating birds, phenology, butterflies, tree rings, melting ice, mud & ice cores, computer models - often with the help of students. Teaching resources available.	66
A kids' guide to climate change & global warming: How to take action! - Cathryn Berger Kaye	10+	Workbook that guides children to investigate, take action & communicate on climate change using their natural talents. Also available as eBook.	48
Eyes wide open: Going behind the environmental headlines - Paul Fleischman	14-18	Looks into issues like population, consumption, vested interests, denial & capitalism in relation to climate change. Also available as eBook & audioBook. Teaching resources available.	208