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A sample of books available from Derbyshire Libraries:

Children's:

• Oliver Jeffers - Here we are: notes for living on planet earth & Begin Again
• Jess French - How to help a hedgehog and protect a polar bear
• Dara McAnulty - Wild Child Series
• Dougie Poynter - Plastic Sucks! You can make a difference
• Emma Carlisle - What do you see when you look at a tree?
• Vikram Baliga - Plants to the rescue!
• Madeleine Finlay - Weird and wonderful ways to save the planet
• Patricia Daniels - How to teach grown-ups about climate change
• Neal Layton - Eco Explorers Series
• James Campbell - Don't Panic! We CAN Save the Planet
• Andy Prentice - Climate Crisis for Beginners

Young Adult:

• Christina Figueres - The future we choose: The stubborn optimists guide to the climate crisis
• Tori Tsui - It's not just you: how to navigate eco-anxiety and the climate crisis
• Naomi Klein - How to change everything: the young humans guide to protecting the planet and each other
• Elizabeth Kolbert - H is for hope: Climate Change from A to Z
• Georgina Stevens - Climate Action: the future is in our hands
• Mikaela Loach - It's not that radical: Climate action to transform our world
• Emma Reynolds - Drawn to change the world

Grown Ups:

• Mark Maslin - How to save our planet: The Facts
• Kate Bradbury - One garden against the world: in search of hope in a changing climate
• Mike Berners-Lee - (1) How bad are bananas? (2) There is no planet B & (3) A Climate of Truth
• Henry Dimbleby - Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
• George Monbiot - (1) Regenesis & (2) How did we get into this mess?
• Robert Macfarlane - Is a River Alive?
• Jake Fiennes - Land Healer: How farming can save Britain's countryside
• Susannah Fisher - Sink or swim: how the world needs to adapt to a changing climate
• Bella Lack - The children of the Anthropocene
• Natalie Isaacs - Right here, Right now: how women can lead the way in the climate emergency
• Joanna Macy - Active Hope: How to face the mess we're in with unexpected resilience and creative power
• Bill McGuire - Hothouse Earth: An inhabitants guide
• Aja Barber - Consumed: The need for collective change - Colonialism, Climate Change & Consumerism
• Katherine Hayhoe - Saving Us: A climate scientists case for hope and healing in a divided world

I will be going through several of these myself as part of my Book Club (see documents opposite!)