How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate

Children's Bookwatch, April, 2008

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate

Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch

Dawn Publications

12402 Bitney Way, Nevada City, CA 95959

9781584691037 www.dawnpub.com 1-800-545-7475

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming is a nonfiction science book for young people about a hot-button modern issue. Written with the assistance of top scientists in the field, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate goes into depth on climate science. Though How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, its meticulous attention to detail and mere quantity of text is well beyond that of an ordinary picturebook, making it best suited for young adults teenagers, and even curious adults. "Ornithologists were finding that birds were arriving earlier and changing their range--the places animals or plants can be found year after year... But why, they wondered, were these changes happening?" Of particular interest is the final "What You--and a Million Kids--Can Do" section, which lists positive ways kids can help the environment and reduce their carbon footprint, such as recycling, using compact fluorescents instead of light bulbs, minimizing use of appliances and unplugging those not needed, eating less meat, buying less, and getting involved in the community. Highly recommended especially for public and school library collections.