Kids Fight Climate Change: Act now to be a #2minutesuperhero by Martin Dorey, Tim Wesson
Published by Candlewick Press on March 8, 2022
ISBN: 1536223484
Pages: 128
Genres: Non-Fiction
Format: Graphic Novel
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This book takes a serious subject and makes it inviting and fun for young children to learn, understand and do a few small things to help save our planet. The book gives a brief overview of climate change and why it’s important for everyone including the very young to get involved. Readers see opportunities to become a superhero activist! At the same time children learn why this fight matters, as they learn about wind turbines, solar power, renewable versus non-renewable energy, as well as not wasting water. There are 60 different types of small actions and changes that children can adopt and help make life on earth a wee bit better. Although this book is a good introduction to young children learning their part, the information provided about climate change seemed overly simplistic and incomplete – even for the targeted age group.

The illustrations by Tim Wesson are well done; creative,  lively, colorful, and fun. There are several end pages that begin with, “Your Superhero Rating…” which take the reader into completing a small survey with points that tally up at the end and give you a superhero rating. This rating is then described in detail based on the # of points the reader accumulated. In addition, readers have 6-8 accessible links – Campaigns and Activism – in which to investigate on their own.

Ages 5-8

Reviewed by Terri Bauld, Louis T. Graves Memorial Library