Start ’em Young: A Guide to Climate, Women, and Justice Children’s Books
Spark discovery in youth with these books that are made to inspire! With messages of justice, creativity, innovation, and persistence, these are great reads for children, teaching youth important themes and history from the past, and inspiring them to think on how they can be part of creating a more sustainable, equitable, and caring world in the present and future. Start planting the seeds of change in our youth by cultivating a love of learning!
Women’s Environmental Leadership Books
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| Wonder Girls: Changing Our World by Paola Gianturco |
| A Voice for the Redwoods by Loretta Halter |
| Sea Turtle Scientist by Stephen R. Swinburne |
| Me…Jane by Patrick McDonnell |
| The Water Princess by Susan Verde and Georgie Badiel |
| Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter |
| There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me by Alice Walker |
| Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney |
| The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell and Donna M. Jackson |
| Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor |
| Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola |
Other Inspiring Reads
| How to Save a Species by Ellen Butcher, Jonathan Baillie, and Marilyn Baillie |
| March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World by Christine King Farris |
| Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan |
| The Little Book of Little Activists by Penguin Young Readers |
| What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers |
| Protecting the Planet: Environmental Activism (Green Generation) by Pamela Dell |
| 23 Ways to Be an Eco Hero: A step-by-step guide to creative ways you can save the world by Isabel Thomas |
| Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm |
| Peace and Me by Ali Winter |
| Little Humans by Brandon Stanton |
| Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America by Emily Easton |
| How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson |
| Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham |
| The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson |
| Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World by Susan Hood |
| If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People by David J. Smith |