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Loading... Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world (edition 2019)by Zoe Tucker (Author), Zoe Persico (Illustrator)Asked by the animals of the forest to help them to defeat the greedy who were destroying forests and ruining the air. She pondered the problem and started to make her ideas known. Soon others who agreed that the problems could be made known without violence joined her. And together they proved that "No one is too small to make a difference." It's a good reminder to keep up the good work that Greta started. The illustrations by Zoe Persico are fun, tinged with a bit of whimsey, colorful, and delightful. Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to anyone, but especially to a school or your public library! I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books via NetGalley. Thank you! I bought one for granddaughter, too. This book is a fictionalized story based on a real life girl who decided that she had to help our planet. The giants have taken over and are destroying everything. Greta is going to take a stand, and others will join her to defeat the giants and make them learn better ways. What a wonderful story of a true superhero who stood up and said Not today. Synopsis: This book tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg—the Swedish teenager who has led a movement to raise awareness about the world’s climate crisis—using a fairytale style allegory to make this important topic accessible to young children. The book ends with a brief explanation about who the real “Greta” is, and what the cause she is fighting for is really about. There are also a few suggestions for ways in which the reader can limit their negative impact on climate change, as well as a list of web sources for further reading. Grades K-2. Response: The premise of this story is lovely, but the authors are a bit heavy-handed with the depiction of the “giants”. The argument of the story seems to establish a zero-sum game where either the environment or mankind must dominate completely, rather than find some harmonious balance. It feels a bit like the authors may run the risk of guilting or frightening their little readers into begging their parents to abandon society altogether and go live in the woods, which is, for most families, not the most viable option. However, the broad concept of Earth=good, go save Earth is a good one to introduce to young children. The illustrations and Fairytale style will be appealing to young readers. Greta is visited by the inhabitants of her forest, pleading for help in saving their home. The giants have pillaged and plundered nature in their blind greed for profitable construction. She contemplates how and sets out to meet them, carrying only a sign with “STOP” emblazoned upon it. Alone, she is ignored. Soon, others join her, each with their own sign of their own plea. The numbers can not be ignored. The giants take heed. They stop, they listen, they regret. Looking always forward, they could not see the destruction left behind. They adopt alternatives, begin to repair, change the motion of progress. Adorably illustrated and completed with a bio on Greta alongside some tips for eco-living and websites for further information. A product of 350.org, a grassroots campaign intending to reduce carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, 3% of every book sale goes towards meeting their goal. Every child needs a hero to look up to, why not give them one that cares about their tomorrows? An empowering fable inspired by Greta Thunberg. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss.) Greta is just a child, not much older than this picture book's intended audience, when the Giants who live near her forest home start to run amok. Though they have always been around, lately they have become greedier and greedier, cutting down the forest's trees with reckless abandon, building factories that belch smoke into the air, and just generally trampling over the many other creatures who call the forest home. Desperate, the bears and foxes and squirrels turn to young Greta for help. She is only one person - and a small one, at that - but her stand against the Giants inspires other children to take action as well. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending: easily shamed, the Giants are horrified by their lack of manners and empathy, and quickly move to set things right. Sadly, the real Greta - Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish girl who serves as inspiration for this fable - is actually mocked, teased, subjected to ableism, and dismissed as "hysterical" by the IRL Giants, who have neither a sense of shame, nor a conscience. But that wouldn't make for a very uplifting picture book, would it? That said, the book's afterward introduces readers to the real Greta, and the myriad of challenges she's faced. It also includes a list of actions that kids can take, in the here and now, to help make Greta's dream a reality. (Thankfully, nestled among the suggestions is "eat less meat," though methinks "go vegan" would be more apt, especially since Greta is. One of us, one of us!) http://www.easyvegan.info/img/greta-and-the-giants-01.jpg The artwork in Greta and the Giants is lovely, as is the message. I especially love the diversity of faces - kids of all races, ethnicities, and religions join Greta in her fight, and there's no understating the importance of representation. This is a great book to help engage younger readers with the world around them, and empower them to take action in their own communities. It shouldn't be up to them, but we grownups have failed them, miserably. My only regret? That Esther the Wonder Pig didn't land a cameo. http://www.easyvegan.info/2019/12/17/greta-and-the-giants-by-zoe-tucker-and-zoe-... |
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Adorably illustrated and completed with a bio on Greta alongside some tips for eco-living and websites for further information.
A product of 350.org, a grassroots campaign intending to reduce carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, 3% of every book sale goes towards meeting their goal.
Every child needs a hero to look up to, why not give them one that cares about their tomorrows? ( )