Growing Green: A Young Person's Guide to Taking Care of the Planet - Tapa dura

This attractive book will be appreciated for its warm exploration of a perennially important theme. The book consists of colourful pictures of a child doing the small things that underpin an environmentally gentle lifestyle - with an emphasis on taking care of small creatures and their habitats, nurturing seeds and seedlings, picking up litter and recycling - along with brief captions (with a hint of humour), to provide a useful 'talkabout' book. The whole concept is grounded in the clearly stated awareness that this world is sacred.

Christina Goodings has a young family and so knows how to keep young children interested and occupied. She draws on her experiences as a primary school teacher, a Sunday school teacher and a storyteller in her writing of books for children. For Lion these include The Bartimouse series, Looking High and Low for One Lost Sheep, Celebrating Christmas, Around the Year and Look What I Made!