*Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author of The Lost Words.*
If you're worried about climate change, this book is an essential and reassuring read.
We often feel like we don't have the power to make real change.
But our small changes can add up to something BIG.
Packed with reassuring step by step actions and easy to follow DIY activities, How You Can Save The Planet is the perfect gift for young activists who want to make a difference.
With simple explanations, practical tips and stories from children across the world, this guide is ideal for young people who are worried about climate change and want to help our planet!
Crafted by Hendrikus van Hensbergen, whose work is featured on BBC Bitesize[JP2] , this inspiring read is perfect for children at KS2.
'Every young person in the country should be given this book' Sir Tim Smit, Founder of The Eden Project
'It's enlightening, inspiring and empowering' Kate Humble, TV presenter
'Wonderfully informative, fun and practical [. . .] A great source of inspiration' The Rich Brothers, TV presenters
Rezensionen / Stimmen
An excellent down-to-earth handbook for teens and pre-teens -- Patrick Barkham * Guardian * This wonderful book is a mixture of a manifesto and an operations manual for how to make Natural History. Every young person in the country should be given this book: it is life affirming and brilliantly practical. It is a roadmap for protecting the fragile planet on which we live -- Sir Tim Smit, Founder of the Eden Project A really informative book for young people about how to become an environmental activist, with lots of fun ways to take practical action. I totally agree with the message: We all have the power to make a difference and help the planet! -- Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl), environmental and climate activist What's so clever about this book is that it manages to combine being practical and informative with great story telling. It's enlightening, inspiring and empowering - a book for anyone of any age. I'm going to give it to everyone I know! -- Kate Humble, TV presenter Without action, hope is fantasy. But mix the right amount of hope with action, then double both, and you can change the world. Hendrikus van Hensbergen shows us how to do it, starting now, in his fine new book -- Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N A wonderfully informative, fun and practical book that highlights the most important fact - That small individual acts of kindness towards our planet, will make a great difference. A great source of inspiration -- Harry and David Rich, TV presenters Straight talking advice on how to identify goals and realise them -- Claire Allfree * Evening Standard * A treasure trove of practical advice and inspiration -- Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Zielgruppe
Für Kinder
Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-0-241-45305-6 (9780241453056)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Hendrikus van Hensbergen has a BSc in Zoology from the University of Bristol, where he was awarded the Rose Bracher Memorial Prize, and an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management from the University of Oxford.
He is the CEO of youth environmental charity, Action for Conservation (AFC), which he founded in 2014, whilst working for WWF, after realising that no charities in the UK existed with the sole purpose of engaging young people in environmental action. In a short space of time the charity has become an influential force, driving greater action to engage and involve young people across the environmental sector. In 2018 Hendrikus' inspirational leadership was recognised with a Postcode Trust Rising Star Award and in 2019 the charity launched the world's largest youth-led nature restoration initiative in Wales.
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. As a lyricist and performer, he has written albums and songs with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn, with whom he has released two albums, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023). In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2022 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is currently completing his third book with Jackie Morris: The Lost Birds.
