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Environment & Climate Change

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Nothing threatens our children more than the ongoing climate catastrophe. The books and related learning resources in this collection focus on the environment and provide context to what is happening. Each of these activities and resources will inspire young people to take action to protect our planet.

How to Bee Written by Bren MacDibble

How to Bee

A story about family, loyalty, kindness and bravery, set against an all-too-possible future where climate change has forever changed the way we live.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

A Forest in the City Written by Andrea Curtis Illustrated by Pierre Pratt

A Forest in the City

This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 8 to 12 / grades 3 to 7

My Street Remembers

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Visual Elements, Oral Language, Vocabulary Acquisition, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Text Forms & Genres, Developing & Creating Texts, Just for Fun!

Topics: Diversity, Environment & Climate Change, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades K to 1

Title of The Year of Fire

The Year of Fire

A timely new edition of a story about a wildfire from beloved children’s book creators Teddy Jam and Ian Wallace.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Writing, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 6 to 9 / grades 1 to 4

The Sunshine Project

In the final book in the Book Uncle trilogy, Anil faces a dilemma when the city decides to build a solar panel factory on the site of a mangrove forest.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Text Forms & Genres, Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Writing, Integrated Learning

Topics: Environment & Climate Change, Human Rights & Activism, Nature & the Natural World

Audience: ages 8 to 12 / grades 3 to 7