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The book was the 2021 Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner in the Books for Younger Children category. [15] It was also a finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize in the Young Readers' Literature category, [16] a #1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Picture Books list, [17] and received a 2021 Golden Kite Honor in the Picture Book Text ...
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
According to Shellenberger, the book "explores how and why so many of us came to see important but manageable environmental problems as the end of the world, and why the people who are the most apocalyptic about environmental problems tend to oppose the best and most obvious solutions to solving them." [1]
The books present moral issues such as growing up, disabilities, abuse, fear, friendship, prejudice, gossip, fat shaming, and helping the environment. [ 2 ] The book series was adapted into a 26-episode anime series entitled Serendipity the Pink Dragon and 26-episode cartoon series Little Mouse on the Prairie .
The Environmental books in this category are books that have the effects of human activity on the natural environment as a major theme. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. [1] Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during World War II.
This category lists environmental non-fiction books. See also: List of environmental books, List of environmental reports. Subcategories. This category has the ...