This is a thought provoking children's book with beautiful, detailed illustrations on the theme of saving the planet. The text is cleverly written in rhyme. The book is 76 pages and so is suited to older children, from about age 10 onwards. The book has 5 stories. The first is centred around Gary the fish and deals with pollution in the sea. The message is clear.... Don't litter in the sea. The second story is about fire and how it impacts animals like Gonny Squirrel. The message from this story is that we must all do what we can, however shall the effort. The third story is about Ted, the bear and is entitled 'So, the teddy bears can have their picnic'. He wants everyone to think of 3 things they can do to help towards saving the planet. If everyone did this, imagine the impact! The fourth story is told by Colin the fly and Asha to not leave our rubbish under trees. We need to throw it in a bin and recycle where possible. The fifth and last story is about cute Sarah Seal and the disappearing ice. She is motherless, but adopted by a polar bear. The book delivers a very serious message, but its theme is we must not despair, there is still hope if we make an effort to save the planet. We can all work towards reducing emissions, recycling and reducing energy usage. The book is both educational and entertaining. It stresses that we all need to take responsibility for our planet and every little action and effort matter.
This book consists of five stories about how our planet is not always treated with the respect and care it deserves and goes to explain what children can do to help save the planet. Children can read, in story form, how small changes to their daily routine, or changes to their usual behaviour, can have a positive effect on the planet. The stories cover issues currently affecting the sustainability of our planet such as what will happen to all our sea creatures should we continue to pollute our seas; lives lost or ruined and lands devastated by wildfires; the damage to health through breathing in toxic air; the antisocial, selfish and shocking practice of fly-tipping and the devastating effects of the disappearing snow and ice in the Arctic.
These animal stories show the adverse effects some of our unthinking routine actions and behaviours have on the animal kingdom but it follows that this also affects the whole of mankind wherever you live in the world. There is no safe place to hide. But the encouraging message here is that by changing some of our actions and behaviours, however small they are, this can have a very positive effect to our the planet.
