I love this book!
I had no idea Frogs were so interesting! This is the kind of book that I would have obsessed over as a child and learnt all the species names.

The beautiful illustrations definitely help with that fascination.

A wonderful little collection of activities and information about what you can find if you adventure into the forest in each of the four seasons.

This book has so many amazing activities to encourage children to explore and experience their environment.

An amazingly eye opening book aimed at educating children to the immense problem that faces is with regards to plastic!

The book does an amazing job and handling the heavy and worrying subject with truth and interest, as well as teaching children how we can help to prevent more destruction, campaign to make big change, and what other people are doing to help.

A beautifully illustrated and educational book about the history of human life, our ancient ancestors, and evolution.

It is a little complicated, and would probably be best for an older child, or could be broken down into sections in use as a teacher: into different time periods or sub species down the evolutionary line for example.

A beautifully illustrated and musically written book of poems all about the environments and habitats of our world.

Each poem about a different type of land and habitat includes animals and wildlife from the area, that you can spot in the accompanying illustrations.

And on top of that, the book encourages children to consider their impact on our world and how they can help to protect it!

A wonderful collection of poetry in two sections about WW1 and WW2. They are modern poems written either as a narrative of the time or reflections looking back and are perfect for children to relate to now.

They express good questions about morals, emotions, danger etc.
And some are very imaginative and can be great ways to initiate creative writing activities.

Based on the poem ‘Dream Variation’ by Langston Hughes, the story is an illustrated and simplified version of the message it contains.

The book shows a young black child and their family in the US during segregation. The poem itself talks about the dream of African-Americans for acceptance and freedom, and this picture book does a perfect job at relaying this to children.

The illustrations are clear discussion pieces, with the child’s family mirrored by a white family who seem much more colourful, privileged and accepted. However, the child and their family are still happy.

They are not presented as lonely or downtrodden, which would be easy for the illustrator to do, and is the usual mis-step in some picture books of this kind. The child has plenty of happiness from their loving family, from their dreams, and their imagination. The key aspect is that the book vocalises those dreams into needing acceptance and reality; the power is beyond the narrator and is placed into the hands of the reader.

A wonderful collection of poetry that is both empowering and educational.

The poems are a well balanced mix of historical figures- with small introductions about the women and what they have done that may inspire the reader, and of generally inspirational and uplifting poems.

A fun little illustrated poem about how our world began!

This poem would be a great discussion point for talking about the stars, sun, and out universe with children, using science and art together.

A good book that makes the reader think.
Some of the poems were beautiful, funny and witty - ones I would definitely use to make children question and consider how we treat our planet, whilst others were confusing, hard to read or a little boring in my personal opinion.