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Last Tree in the City by Peter Carnavas

For ages 3+

Edward's city is a place of concrete and cars, a world without colour. Every day, Edward takes himself to a part of the city that is not like the city at all - the last tree in the city. He is happy there, until one day, the tree is gone. Edward (and his duck) eventually figure out a unique way to make the city more beautiful than it ever was before. 

Listen to the story.

For ages 3+ 

This beautiful and poignant story of a cloud called Cyril conveys positive messages about the life and colour that water brings to our world.

Watch Tim drawing Frankie from one of his other stories.

For ages 7+

This compendium of amazing animals, plants, rocks and minerals, and microorganisms will wow children and many adults, too. With 100 remarkable items from the natural world, from orchids to opals and lichens to lizards, everyone will find something to be captivated by. 

Find out more about illustrator Angela Rizza in her studio.

For ages 7+

Hope Jones' New Year's resolution is to give up plastic, and she's inspiring others to do the same with her website hopejonessavestheworld.com. When she realises her local supermarket seems to stock more unnecessary plastic than food, she makes it her mission to do something about it. She may be just one ten-year-old with a homemade banner, but with enough determination, maybe Hope Jones really can save the world. 

Listen to Josh read from one of his other Hope Jones books.

For ages 9+

Greta Thunberg is the Swedish schoolgirl who dared to stand up to global inaction on climate change. What began as one girl's personal plea for environmental responsibility has now become a worldwide movement, with millions of followers also demanding changes to the ways in which we exploit our planet's natural resources. This book shares Greta's life-affirming story, showing how we can all join her and help to change the world.

Find out more about how Greta became famous.

For ages 9+

October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.  Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October's mother comes back. The year everything changes. This book is a feast for the senses, filled with the woodsmoke smell of crisp autumn mornings and the sound of wellies squelching in river mud. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.

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For young adults

Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and the face of the family business. Theo comes from a long line of fishermen, but his parents are struggling to make ends meet. On the face of it, the three have very little in common. Yet when Hester and Theo join Gabrielle and legions of other teenagers around the world in developing the strange new 'Greenfingers' power, it becomes clear that to use their ability for good, they'll need to learn to work together.

See Lauren talk about Green Rising.