Childrens' Sustainability Books

Author: Meighan Morrison
Publisher: Scholastic, New Zealand (1993)

This maginificant Earth deserves far better care. We can help in its rescue if we each do our share. This reflective tale looks at what people have done to our planet - and carries a message of hope for our future. Long live Earth!

Note: This is a picture book.

Softcover, 28 pages (used)

Author: Terry Jennings
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

Look around you. All the things that we build, that we travel in, that we use in our homes, schools and workplaces ... just about everything is made from materials that we dif out of the ground or get from the plants growing there.

This colourful and informative book introduces young readers to one of these important materials - glass. It explains what glass is, how it is formed, and how it is used to make bottles, jarsm windows, mirrors, and lenses. It shows clearly just how improtant glass is to the world we live in.

Topics include:
* Using glass
* Early glass
* Making glass today
* Glass blowing
* Glass jars
* Glass for decoration
* Safer glass
* Lenses
* Mirrors
* Fibreglass
* Recycling glass
* Do it yourself
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Terry Jennings
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

Look around you. All the things that we build, that we travel in, that we use in our homes, schools and workplaces ... just about everything is made from materials that we either dig out of the gorund or get from teh plants growing there.

This colourful and informative book introduces young readers to one of these important materials - metal. It explains where different metals come from, how they are mined, and what they are used for. It shows clearly just how important metals are to the world we live in.

Topic include:
* Everyday metals
* Where do metals come from?
* Mining metals
* Iron and steel
* cooper and aluminium
* Mixing metals
* Shaping metals
* Cutting and joining metals
* Metals and electricity
* Rusting and tarnishing
* Precious metals
* Recycling metals
* Do it yourself
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Veronica Ross
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2002)

Find out what you need to eat in order to stay healthy, and read about the foods that give you the energy you need to run and play.

Topinc include:
* Why do I need to eat?
* A balanced diet
* Foods for growth
* Energy foods
* Fatty and oily
* Food for health
* Fantastic fibre
* Drink up
* Being a vegetarian
* Fabulous food
* Food allergies
* Preparing food
* Bad habits
* Words to remember

Softcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: john Baines
Publisher: Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, United Kingdom (1991)

What is the atmosphere?
Why is it polluted?
How can we protect it?

The atmosphere is all around us. Without it there would be no water, plants, animals or people. It provides the air we breathe and controls our climate. But we are damaging the atmosphere at an alarming rate and the climate is changing. This book explains what is happening to the atmosphere, what we must do to reduce air pollution, and what you can do to help.

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Richard Hatton
Publisher: Wayland (Publishing) Ltd, United Kingdom (1993)

The Sun does not just provide us within heat and light. This huge ball in the sky is the source of all energy on the Earth.

The Sun is also an important alternative energy. Heat from the Sun can be used to make electricity and heat our homes and water.

Fuels such as coal, oil and gas are running out. Burning these fuels is harmful to the environment. It causes pollution and acid rain which destroys forests and kills animals. The Sun's energy can never be used up, so it will not run out. It is a safe, cheap and clean power supply.

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Jen Green
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

This important new series explores the environmental problems that threaten Earth. Through clear text and superb photographs and diagrams, each book encourages children to discuss the issues and explains how they can help save the planet.

Topics include:
* What is energy?
* Fossil fuels
* Using fossil fuels
* Hidden drawbacks
* Wasting energy
* Nuclear power
* Water as energy
* Weather as energy
* Using rocks and waste
* Solving the crisis
* How can we help?
* Energy projects
* Energy factfile
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Jen Green
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2004)

This important new series explores the environmental problems that threaten Earth. Through clear text and superb photographs and diagrams, each book encourages children to discuss the issues and explains how they can help save the planet.

Topics include:
* Feeding the world
* Advances in farming
* Poor farmers
* Feast and famine
* Lost land
* Chemicals and farming
* Farm animals
* From field to shelf
* Changing nature
* Organic farming
* How can we help?
* Energy projects
* Energy factfile
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Jen Green
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2004)

This important new series explores the environmental problems that threaten Earth. Through clear text and superb photographs and diagrams, each book encourages children to discuss the issues and explains how they can help save the planet.

Topics include:
* What a waste!
* Household waste
* Problem packaging
* Waste disposal
* Rotten rubbish
* Farm waste
* Industrial waste
* Dangerous waste
* Rich or poor
* Recycling waste
* Reuse or recycle
* How can we help?
* Waste projects
* Waste factfile
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Jen Green
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

This important new series explores the environmental problems that threaten Earth. Through clear text and superb photographs and diagrams, each book encourages children to discuss the issues and explains how they can help save the planet.

Topics include:
* Nature at risk
* A natural balance
* Destroying the wild
* Harmful industry
* Farming takes over
* Hunting wildlife
* Friends and foe
* New arrivals
* Polluting nature
* Taking action
* Save our species
* How can we help?
* Wildlife projects
* Wildlife fact file
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Philip Parker
Publisher: Wayland Publishers (1994)

The Project Eco-City series is an exciting way of looking at city ecology. Starting with the home environment, the interest is widened in each book, working up to global dimensions.

Global Cities

Cities are home to more than half the world's people. From the massive consumption of resources to the unbelievable creation of waste, Global Cities looks at the way megacities produce effects that spread around the global environment through:
* clear and detailed information
* wonderful colour illustrations
* exciting projects and case studies

Hard cover, 48 pages (new)

Author Sandy McKey
Publisher: Longacre Press, New Zealand (2001)

Winner - Junior Fiction 2002 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. What is Colin doing scrambling about in the rubbish bin? Has he lost something? His sister thinks he's lost his marbles, his father thinks he's lost his manners, and his mother - well - she's losing her temper very quickly. But Colin wants to save the world. And the rubbish bin seems a good place to start. But his family are NO help! A high-spirited story, playfully told, which includes great recycling tips and startling facts about ecology.

Softcover, 131 pages (new)

Author: Claire Llewellyn
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

We live on an amazing planet. As far as we know the Earth is the only place in the whole universe where life is found. But this precious planet is under threat ...

Why is the air that we breathe becoming polluted? Is it safe to go on burning fuels for energy? What is the effect of all the traffic on our roads? The answers to these and many other questions about saving energy are explored in this colourful and informative book for young readers.

Topics include:
* Air is important
* Dirty air
* Too much traffic
* Going to school
* A better way to school
* Cutting down on traffic
* Making energy
* Using energy at home
* A better way with energy
* Cleaner energy
* Recycling saves energy
* Small actions, big results
* Over to you!
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

b>Author: Claire Llewellyn
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

We live on an amazing planet. As far as we know the Earth is the only place in the whole universe where life is found. But this precious planet is under threat ...

Why is the air that we breathe becoming polluted? Is it safe to go on burning fuels for energy? What is the effect of all the traffic on our roads? The answers to these and many other questions about saving energy are explored in this colourful and informative book for young readers.

Topics include:
* Air is important
* Dirty air
* Too much traffic
* Going to school
* A better way to school
* Cutting down on traffic
* Making energy
* Using energy at home
* A better way with energy
* Cleaner energy
* Recycling saves energy
* Small actions, big results
* Over to you!
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Claire Llewellyn
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

We live on an amazing planet. As far as we know the Earth is the only place in the whole universe where life is found. But this precious planet is under threat ...

Could we live without water? How can we stop polluting our water sources with waste? How can the seas be kept clean? What can we do to save water? The answers to these and many other questions about using water wisely are explored in this colourful and informative book for young readers.

Topics Include:
* Water for life
* The Earth's water
* The Water cycle
* Getting rid of waste
* A better way with waste
* Factories and farms
* Freshwater habitats
* Pollution in the sea
* More and more water
* Using water
* A better way of using water
* Small actions, big results
* Over to you!
* Glossary

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Sally Hewitt
Publisher: Chrysalis Children's Books, United Kingdom (2003)

What is energy? How do people and animals get their energy? What kinds of fuel are used for energy? Why do we need to find different ways of making energy?

The answers to these and many other questions are explored in this colourful and informative look at energy, why nothing can happen without it, and how we use the resources in the world around us to make energy.

Topics include:
* What is energy?
* Plants
* Full of energy
* Food
* Animals
* Movement and sound
* Heat and light
* Coal
* Gas and oil
* Electicity
* Batteries
* Sun, water and wind
* Make butterflies flutter
* Words to remember

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Robert Sneddon
Publisher: Belitha Press, United Kingdom (2003)

For many centuries people have wondered how our world works. In early times, gods and other mythical beings were used to explain how things happen. Only much later did the idea of energy in its many forms come to be accepted. This book follows the search for an understanding of what energy is, from the Ancient Greek philosophers to the great scientists of the twentieth century. It also looks at how science might help to meet our future energy needs.

Topics include:
* Making it work
* Cosmic mind
* Living energy
* Letting in light
* Making connections
* Liquid fire
* Steaming ahead
* Packets of energy
* Enter Einstein
* Glossary

Hardcover, 46 pages (new)

Author: Rosie McCormick
Publisher: Belitha Press, United Kingdom (2002)

Dear Reader

Cool Citizens has been written just for you. Packed with facts about governmen and society, things to do, quizzes and a brilliant story, this handy book will tell you all you need to know about being a citizen of this planet.

Did you know that:
* as a citizen of the United Kingdom you have the right to freedom of expression?
* Roman soldiers had to serve in the army for 25 years before becoming citizens?
* people used to get the news from town criers?

So what are you waiting for? Turn the pages and enter a world where learning is much more fun than you ever thought it could be.

Topics include:
All about citizenship (running the country, human rights, all kinds of people, world citizens)
* Quiz time
* Story: they are only words
* Citizen superstars
* That's astonishing
* Things to do
* Useful information
* Glossary

Hardcover, 48 pages (new)

Author: Lewis Bronze, Nick Heathcote and Peter Brown
Publisher: BBC Books, United Kingdom (1990, 1991)

You care about our future, you want to know what's happening to the world - but how can you help stop the many threats to our planet? Everyday seems to bring more gloomy predictions about the environment. But you can act now to make our world a better place! That is the theme of The Blue Peter Green Book. From the television team who really know what children are thinking and care about, here's a book that explains clearly and simply what the major environmental problems are - and how you can help to deal with them.

Softcover, 64 pages (used in good condition)

Author: Debbie Silver
Publisher: Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, United Kingdom (1991)

Have you caused any damage to planet Earth today? No? Are you sure? this book investigates the links between the food we eat and environmental problems around the world. Do you know what is in your favorite food? Do you know how it was grown or made? do you know how far it travels before it appears on your plate? Become a green detective and find out!

Hardcover, 32 pages (new)

Author: Scott Lewis
Publisher: Living Planet Press, United States (1990)

The Rainforest Book is every person's window into the spectacular world of tropical rainforests - their amazing diversity, the threats to their survival, and the ways we can preserve them for future generations. This easy-to-read handbook is full of practical tips for turning your concern for rainforests into action.

Softcover, 122 pages (used with wear on the back cover)

Author: Vicki McVey
Publisher: Sierra Club Books for Children, United States (1993)

The Sierra Club Kids Guide to Planet Care and Repair describes the problems humankind has caused and suggests specific thing each one of us can do to help repair the damage, including tips for writing letters to government officials to methods to making organic garden compost. Included are inspiring stories of children from around the world who have made an effort to help save the Earth and managed to make a real difference.

Hardcover, 85 pages (Used in excellent condition)