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Our Favourite Kids Books for World Environment Day

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It's World Environment Day on 5th June! 

It is a day for environmental action around the globe and has been celebrated every year since 1974. This year's theme is Plastic Pollution, and we're completely behind the cause to #BeatPlasticPollution! Only 10% of the 400 million tons of plastic gets recycled each year, and it's believed that at least 19 tonnes of that plastic ends up in lakes, rivers and oceans. Plastic has never been such a threat to our planet's health. 

There are lots of ways to engage kids in important conversations around climate change. Children love nature and are often passionate about protecting our environment. Books can help make sense of their questions about the planet and what we can do at home to fight climate change.

We've put together a list of some of our top recommended reads for all ages this World Environment Day, check them out below and enter one of our giveaways for a chance to win a copy to read and review.

You can also check out our 21 tips for ways to fight climate change at home, on our blog.

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2023-05-31
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Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong!

Are you sure you know everything about sharks? Think again! This fun, informative and inventive new book in the Everything You Know About series is packed full of unexpected facts about sharks for ages 7+!

Following Dinosaurs and Minibeasts, it’s time to uncover wild but completely true facts all shark lovers should know. With fascinating, friendly and easy-to-understand text written by zoologist Dr. Nick Crumpton and amazingly detailed colour artwork on every page by Gavin Scott, this beautifully produced hardback gift book with an stunning tactile cover will impress shark fans of any age. 

From terrifying teeth to brilliant brain power, discover how everything you think you know about sharks is actually untrue in this in-depth, ingenious book. 

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If I Were the World

A beautifully illustrated rhyming picture book with a powerful message about looking after our AMAZING planet.

Flowers, bees, trees, birds, sparkling seas and so many more marvellous nature elements are all celebrated in this fantastic love letter to our world. This beautiful and uplifting book will inspire us all to join hands and help our amazing planet.

With an irresistible rhyming text by bestselling author Mark Sperring and stunning illustrations by rising star Natelle Quek, it's the perfect book to inspire children to ask questions about our planet and take action.

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Do You Love Oceans?: Why oceans are magnificently mega!

From award-winning author and illustrator Matt Robertson comes another exciting non-fiction picture book full of fun facts, for ages 5+, all about OCEANS!

Dive to the darkest depths of the deep blue sea, weave in and out of colourful coral reefs and learn about the incredible people who are trying to save our oceans. Did you know lobsters keep their teeth in their tummies? Or that you can find rivers and lakes beneath the ocean? And did you know that sea stars have no brain or blood? Explore the wonders of our underwater worlds on every page, from coral reefs, sharks and the deep to shipwrecks, weird fish and frozen seas, there's so much to discover!

With fun and colourful illustrations and bursting with facts, Do You Love Oceans? is perfect for readers who want to explore Earth's spectacular seas.

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Who Makes an Ocean?

Dip your toes into this gorgeously illustrated picture book all about oceans and discover how they’re made, how life developed on earth and why they are so important to our planet. 

Who made the oceans? An ancient god? A magic spell? A billion firefighters and all their hoses? Come on a trip to the Sea Museum with Dad, and uncover the magical history of oceans, what makes them so special and how we can look after them.

This is a beautiful new instalment in the Who Makes... series, following Who Makes a Forest?, written by Sally Nicholls and illustrated by Carolina Rabei. A true celebration of nature and our planet that will inspire little ones to preserve and protect it.

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National Trust: Out and About Sky Explorer: A children's guide to clouds, constellations and other amazing things to spot in the sky

From amazing cloud formations and rainbows to twinkling stars and planets, become an expert sky explorer with this brilliant pocket guide to the wonders of the sky, both by day and night.

Learn how to tell your cumulonimbus from your contrails, your stars from your satellites, and much more in the beautifully illustrated spotter's guide to the sky by day and by night. Find out what makes the sky blue, the difference between lunar and solar eclipses and how mirages happen. Discover how to make a rainbow, create your own lightning and steer by the stars yourself. This book also includes top spotting tips for your adventures, plus a quiz to test your expert explorer knowledge.

Wherever you are, whatever the weather, there's always something to see if you look up!

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Flight: Explore the secret routes of the skies from a bird's-eye view…

Explore the world from a birds-eye view in this breath-taking illustrated guide to birds and migration, from twenty-year-old environmentalist and birder, Mya-Rose Craig, and illustrator Lynn Scurfield.

Flight is the story of seven migrating birds and their journeys around the globe. Meet the arctic tern, which covers the distance from the Earth to the Moon and back three times in its lifetime; the humble swallow, whose epic migration takes it through Europe, across the Sahara Desert and all the way to the tip of South Africa. Along the way, you'll discover history and folklore from around the world that reveal the special relationship between humans and birds.

This fully-illustrated book is a true celebration of beautiful birds and the stories they carry. 

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Global: a graphic novel adventure about hope in the face of climate change

This is a powerful, hopeful and timely story about the real effects of climate change: two young people on different continents whose lives are catastrophically changed by global warming. A graphic novel with glorious colour artwork throughout for children of all ages - from Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind Illegal, and his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels.

Illustrated by the talented Giovanni Rigano, this moving and important graphic novel will have breathtaking full-colour illustrations throughout.

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Lost on Gibbon Island

The Last Bear meets The Life of Pi in this adventure-filled survival story set on a lush Cambodian island for middle grade readers!

Meet 12-year-old Lark, who finds herself ship-wrecked with no one but a baby gibbon for company. Can she survive storms, lack of food and jelly-fish infested waters and find her way home? Lark faces many dangers – and with dwindling food and water, she must make a plan to find her way off the island before it's too late...

Formatted as Lark's diary with lined journal pages, gorgeous design details and a special map of Gibbon Island by Rob Biddulph, this is a gorgeous survival story that will have you on the edge of your seat.

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Wilder

A beautiful middle-grade mystery quest, about family bonds, fitting in and nature.

When a child emerges from the wilderness, no one in the village knows what to do with her. She is odd: half-wild, without speech and has an unnatural bond with animals, especially the falcon who is always circling above her. The Wise-Woman takes her in, and names her Rhodd, but the rest of the villagers remain suspicious, especially when a dark sickness begins to spread.

And so, Rhodd sets out to discover its cause to protect her mother, her falcon and herself...

This is an enthralling adventure about love, belonging and the wildness within us all, for fans of The Last Wild and Where the Crawdads Sing.

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