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Children's Nonfiction Environmental Conservation & Protection

Keep Our World Green

Why Humans Need Gardens, Parks and Public Green Spaces

by (author) Frieda Wishinsky

illustrated by Sara Theuerkauf

Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Initial publish date
May 2025
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection, City & Town Life, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459838406
    Publish Date
    May 2025
    List Price
    $23.99
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781459838383
    Publish Date
    May 2025
    List Price
    $29.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 9 to 12
  • Grade: 4 to 7
  • Reading age: 9 to 12

Description

Green space is good for us all.

Parks and gardens bring life to communities big and small all over the world and provide a habitat for native plants and animals. Ensuring access to these outdoor spaces can inspire art, music and literature and create ways for communities to grow their own food. But today, green space everywhere is at risk.

Keep Our World Green looks at how green space has evolved throughout history, from the first public garden to the origins of bonsai trees. It examines the political, social and environmental challenges of maintaining green spaces because of pollution, inequality and the effects of the climate crisis. It also introduces the people working to protect these places for the future—you can be a green space activist too! Come on, let’s take a walk in the park together!

About the authors

 

Frieda Wishinsky
est l'auteure de plus de 40 livres pour enfants. Parmi les ouvrages déjà
parus, on peut citer, entre autres,

Ounga Bounga, Tu es méchante Lily-Ange!, Le sac à main de la reine,
Canada en vedette

et les romans de la série Catastrophe! Elle vit à Toronto, en
Ontario.

 

FRIEDA WISHINSKY has written over seventy books for children, including Oonga Boonga; You're Mean, Lily Jean; the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award winner Please, Louise!; the middle-grade series Survival, and the non-fiction books Explorers Who Made It . . . or died trying; Everything but the Kitchen Sink and Colossal Canada. Frieda lives in Toronto, Ontario with her husband. Visit her online at www.friedawishinsky.com.

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SARA THEUERKAUF is originally from Nova Scotia and works as both an illustrator and architect in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sara’s work takes joy in the details and reflects her affinity for nature, design, textiles and good food. Her sketchbook accompanies her on all adventures. 

 

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