No World Too Big
Young People Fighting Global Climate Change
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
Fans of No Voice Too Small will be inspired by young climate activists who made an impact around climate change in their communities, countries, and beyond.
Climate change impacts everyone, but the future belongs to young people. No World Too Big celebrates twelve young activists and three activist groups on front lines of the climate crisis who have planted trees in Uganda, protected water in Canada, reduced school-bus climate footprint in Indonesia, invented alternate power sources in Ohio, and more. Fourteen poems by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, David Bowles, Rajani LaRocca, Renée LaTulippe, Heidi E. Y. Stemple, and others honor activists from all over the world and the United States. Additional text goes into detail about each activist's life and how readers can get involved.
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Diverse voices pay tribute to heroic global youth crusading against climate change in this message-driven collection of poetry profiles. Twelve activists and three advocacy groups feature, including Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, young Ukrainian composting proponents Nikita Shulga and Sofiia-Khrystyna Borysiuk, and a team of Indonesian students working to convert buses to biodiesel. An acrostic highlights the efforts of Brazilian human rights advocate Artemisa Xakriabá "to protest the burning of the Amazon rain forest and the killing of Indigenous water and forest protectors" ("Artemisa/ Believes we are/ Áll responsible for our common home"), while a dansa poem draws attention to Ugandan activist Leah Namugerwa's Birthday Trees project ("What a triumph it will be/ when she plants that millionth tree"). Biographical information and activist prompts accompany each work alongside Bradley's chalky digital sketches of the subjects making a difference. The suggestion that no one is too young to fight for change emphatically inspires. Extensive back matter concludes. Ages 5–9.
