Nature: Why We Need to Care for Our Planet (The WHY Files)

Nature: Why We Need to Care for Our Planet by Joli Hannah and illustrated Amelia Herbertson offers a good overall view of current climate issues. It’s a great book for kids who don’t know about what is going on with climate change and what it’s impacting.

This book is a bit graphic for readers who are already sensitive to climate issues and ecological problems, without offering enough solutions for what the average kid can do. It looked so much like real Earth that it disturbed us. We would have liked to see more ways to help the planet and make change, aside from getting outside and drinking more water, or not throwing away clothes.

We would definitely ten thousand percent recommend this book because it opens up what’s happening in the world. In the beginning of the book Jane and her calling out for help mentally is kind of what Mother Earth is doing right now. But if we can care for the earth the way Jane cares for her body and mind, we can make things better.