Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming

Features

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
• Published by: Orchard Books September 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0439024943
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0439024945
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 10.4 ounces

Product Description
Irreverent and entertaining, DOWN TO EARTH is filled with fact about global warming and its disastrous consequences, loads of photographs and illustrations, as well as suggestions for how kids can help combat global warming in their homes, schools, and communities. Engagingly designed, DOWN TO EARTH will educate and empower, leaving readers with the knowledge they need to understand this problem and a sense of hope to inspire them into action.

About The Author
LAURIE DAVID is devoted to stopping global warming. She founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March and has produced several projects that aim to bring global warming to public attention, including the TBS Earth to America! comedy special, the HBO documentary Too Hot Not to Handle, and Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. She was voted Glamour’s lady of the Year for 2006.CAMBRIA GORDON is an active environmentalist and children’s book author. She has written the nonfiction book Fifty Nifty Crafts to Make with Things Around the House and an episode of Madeline, the award-winning animated series, for the Disney Channel. Cambria lives with her husband and their three children in Pacific Palisades, California.

Reader Reviews
Readers should be aware that the the first editions of this book contain a chart (page 18 ) of the past 650,000 years that shows that CO2 emissions rose BEFORE global temperatures. In fact, the chart is reversed - CO2 emissions did rise, but only hundreds (in some cases thousands) of years AFTER temperature rises. For some reason the chart lines are backwards. Scholastic is planning to issue a revised version with an updated chart, but there will be no revision to the text of the book, which references and explains the chart. I don't know that most kids will notice that the chart does not support the argument, but an important subject like this should be accurate in all details. With such inaccuracies I do not recommend the book. Explain global warming to your children yourself - and be sure and use accurate information! Comment (1) | | (Report this)