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1. No world too big : young people fighting global climate change LCCN 2021053655 Type of material Book Main title No world too big : young people fighting global climate change / edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley ; illustrated by Jeanette Bradley. Published/Produced Watertown : Charlesbridge Publishing, [2023] Projected pub date 2312 Description 1 online resource ISBN 9781632899644 (ebook) (hardcover)

• Lindsay H. Metcalf website - https://lindsayhmetcalf.com/

  The formal version
  Lindsay H. Metcalf is a journalist and award-winning author of nonfiction picture books: Beatrix Potter, Scientist, a Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020 and Young People’s Literature Award winner from the Friends of American Writers Chicago; Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices, a Kansas Notable Book, Friends of American Writers honoree, NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and Junior Library Guild selection; and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, a Kirkus and Chicago Public Library Best Book, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and NCTE Notable Poetry Book. Forthcoming titles include No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, a poetry anthology from the team behind No Voice Too Small (Charlesbridge, spring 2023); and Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm, illustrated by Xin Li (Astra Young Readers, spring 2024). Lindsay lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, two old cats, and a snoring Cavalier King Charles dog.

  The personal version
  I grew up on a Kansas farm, where I developed a curiosity about nature. I loved to follow my golden retriever to the creek and hunt for tree stumps gnawed by beavers, look for deer tracks, and wonder at the ripples made by pebbles I’d skipped. I also loved to ride the combine with my dad. (Chopping weeds out of the soybean fields? That was another story.)

  I wanted to read all the time as a young child, so in order to get the chores done, my parents bought me a lot of books on tape. I can still hear the music for the page turns on Roger Hargreaves’ “Little Miss” stories. I memorized and recited nursery rhymes, and I loved to pretend. That may explain why one of the first stories I wrote as a kid featured a smitten, waltzing ostrich.

  After high school and college, I flew the coop for a career in the city. Then I became a mom and decided to leave my job as a newspaper reporter to stay home with my kids. I rekindled my love of children’s books when I realized my two rambunctious little boys would sit still for a good story.

  That gave me my mission: to tell stories that empower children and encourage them to care for the world and all its creatures. I write books for young people from my home a few miles from the farm where I grew up.

  I don’t write all the time. I also like to:
  Play COW with my kids, and often lose. Fact: Even at 5’9”, I am not good at basketball.
  Snuggle with my Cavalier King Charles, Ozzy (who is unaware of his breed’s connection to the British monarchy), and my cats, Gertie and Meeko.
  Act as sous chef—veggie chopper, sauce taster, ingredient getter, dish washer—to the main chef of the house, my husband.
  Build things out of wood, such as a lofted fort bed I once built for my youngest son.
  Tickle the ivories on my heirloom baby grand piano and learn ukulele.
  Plant a garden and neglect it by accident. Fact: Growing up on a farm did not give me a green thumb.
  Help on my parents’ farm by hauling irrigation pipe in the summer or taming barn kitties. Fact: Not everyone would define the latter as “helping.”
  Watch birds from my porch swing.
  Connect with others who love to read and write. (Contact me!)

• Maria Marshall - https://www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/the-picture-book-buzz-interview-w-lindsay-metcalf-jeanette-bradley-and-keila-dawson

  The Picture Book Buzz - Interview w/ Lindsay Metcalf, Jeanette Bradley, and Keila Dawson
  Today, I have the privilege of talking with the terrific trio who created No Voice Too Small about their individual and joint creativity and the creation of their newest poetry anthology, No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change.

  Lindsay H. Metcalf is a journalist-turned-award-winning author of nonfiction picture books and poetry anthologies. Lindsay lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, and a menagerie of pets.

  She’s the author of Beatrix Potter, Scientist, illustrated by Junyi Wu (2020), No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, illustrated by Jeanette Bradley (2020), and Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices (2020).

  For additional information on Lindsay, see our earlier interview (here)

  Jeanette Bradley has been an urban planner, an apprentice pastry chef, and the artist-in-residence for a traveling art museum on a train. Now she writes, draws, and makes books for kids. Jeanette lives in Rhode Island with her wife, kids, and very pampered feline studio assistant.

  She’s the author/illustrator of Something Great (2022), No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History (2020), and Love, Mama (2018). And she’s the illustrator of When the Babies Came to Stay, by Christine McDonnell (2020).

  Keila V. Dawson writes fiction and nonfiction picture books. A New Orleans native, Dawson has also lived and worked in states across the U.S., and abroad in the Philippines, Japan, and Egypt. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  When Keila isn’t reading, writing, or visiting schools, she’s traveling or playing tennis, or digging in genealogical archives.

  She’s the author of Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book, illustrated by Alleanna Harris (2021), No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, illustrated by Jeanette Bradley (2020), and The King Cake Baby, illustrated by Vernon Smith (2015).

  Their newest picture book collaboration is the poetry anthology, No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, which will release on March 14th.

  Welcome Lindsay, Jeanette, & Keila,

  Hi, Maria! Thanks so much for hosting us.

  Let's start with you each telling us a little about yourselves. (Where/when do you write/illustrate? How long have you been writing/illustrating? What is your favorite type of book to write or illustrate?)

  Lindsay – I am currently writing supine on my couch so my 17-week-old Cavalier King Charles puppy can use me as his pillow. My least favorite spot to write is my desk, so in the colder months I move between couch, armchair, dining room table, and bed. When it’s warm enough, I’ll move to our wraparound porch, where the backyard wildlife keep me inspired.

  I’ve been writing children’s books since 2015, signed with a literary agent in 2017, and sold my first books in 2018. The first time I was paid to write was in 2001 at my first journalism job. I graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in journalism and a plan to change the world through newspaper writing and editing. I left my job at The Kansas City Star after having my second baby in seventeen months. It was through my children that I rediscovered a love of kidlit.

  My favorite type of book to write is one that tells a little-known story from history in which I have to dive deep into primary sources to piece together a narrative. Lately I have been gravitating toward 19th-century women’s history and activism. I’ve spent the last year on a YA nonfiction-in-verse project about a little-known but hugely important person from that era.

  Jeanette – I write and illustrate everywhere—I actually did everything from sketch dummy to much of the final art for my debut picture book Love, Mama on the pool bleachers at the YMCA. My favorite type of book is one that I feel fills a need or a gap in the literature.

  Keila – I am definitely a late bloomer to this business of writing, and can’t express how thrilled I am to be part of the kidlit community.

  I wrote my first story in 2013 and joined my local SCBWI chapter. Through the mentorship of established writers in that group and a bit of magic, that story became my debut picture book that was published in 2015.

  I enjoy history, travel, and exploring cultures, so I’m drawn to nonfiction and untold stories, but I also love historical fiction. And stories that invite readers to learn something new about others. That’s why I get really excited about ideas where I’m able to share pre-America Louisiana with readers because so many people from different places have influenced our unique culture, traditions, and customs celebrated today that we and so many others enjoy.

  I roam around my home and write in different places, including my kitchen where I’ve gotten inspiration for two of my books. I have a summer office and a winter office. I like to write in my solarium-turned office in the summer that overlooks our garden and write in my winter office, which is an unused bedroom, when it gets too cold. I swear I do my best writing at home in my head while in the shower or just as I fall asleep.

  Who was your favorite author, illustrator, poet, and/or favorite book as a child?

  Lindsay – My earliest memory of a favorite book is of Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever. His whimsical illustration style combined with the lyricism of classic nursery rhymes captivated me so much that I memorized most of the nursery rhymes and learned to read them independently by age 4. My parents also supplied me with troves of books on tape—Roger Hargraves’ Little Miss and Little Mister stories, Disney stories, and more. Those, combined with the Sesame Street treasury titles we’d pick up once a month at our small town grocery store, plus most of the Berenstain Bears and Little Critter books, had me hooked on books for life. As farmers during the 1980s crisis we didn’t have a lot of money, so I will forever be grateful to my parents for investing in me in this way.

  Jeanette – I loved Mary Blair’s The Color Kittens and anything by Arnold Lobel. I really loved the little world he built in Miss Suzy, and how his soft, rounded line created this coziness I wanted to climb into. When I was in elementary school, my librarian aunt gave me a signed copy of Mercer Meyer’s gorgeously illustrated version of Grimm’s fairy tales, which I reread frequently through adulthood. Keila reminded me of my own love of Mad Magazine and comics that I would read standing by the rack in the corner store.

  Keila – When very young, I remember the classic nursery rhymes and fairytales read to me at home and in school. But the early readers in elementary were not so interesting and because I had an active imagination, I made up my own stories. As an independent reader, I loved short stories from HIGHLIGHTS magazines, and when older, I enjoyed the humor and satire of MAD Magazine. I also remember when the Nancy Drew mysteries were popular, but as an active child, I preferred to make my own adventures. And yes, I got into trouble now and then! In high school, I remember discovering Kurt Vonnegut and how much his books made me think about the world.

  Let’s step back a moment, how did the three of you initially team up to create No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History?

  Lindsay – We were all part of a Facebook group for the Kidlit Women initiative in 2018. Jeanette, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe you posed a question to the group about whether anyone would be interested in collaborating on a book about young activists. At that time the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida were leading anti-gun-violence protests nationwide. I immediately messaged Jeanette, whom I’d never met but knew we were represented by the same agent. Keila also commented on the thread, and since I knew her through the kidlit community, I suggested we invite her to collaborate. None of us were published poets at that time, but we landed on poetry as the vehicle for telling the stories of these young activists because of the emotional weight poems carry in so few words. We also believed it was important to invite own-voices poets to tell their stories.

  Keila – Yes, I remember that email invitation from Lindsay and my immediate response was YES! The poetry aspect seemed like a great vehicle for the message of activism. And from our collaboration, the product turned out so well; we did it again.

  I'm glad you did. These are both great anthologies! And what was your inspiration to create No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change?

  Lindsay – While making No Voice Too Small, we created a huge spreadsheet of young, contemporary activists we could potentially feature. We included a couple of climate and environmental activists in that book, but so many others were doing important work in that realm, and we knew the climate crisis weighed heavily on the minds of young people. “Climate anxiety” was a newly coined phrase, and the best way to combat it is through action. We wanted to give young people inspiration and tools to band together and make the greatest impact. With climate, collective action is key, yet so many of the books on the market focused on individual action. Taking readers’ mindsets from “me to we” was a huge reason for making No World Too Big.

  Additionally, we wanted to showcase international activism; we wanted to show that there are many people working on this topic all over the world, using their unique talents to tackle different aspects of the problem. And Jeanette happened to be married to a climate scientist! This book seemed a natural topic of collaboration, and thankfully, our publisher, Charlesbridge, agreed.

  Jeanette – It is true that I am married to an academic who studies climate change, but I also live in the Ocean State, only a couple dozen feet above sea level. The impact of climate change has been very obvious in our winter without a winter this year, and it has been very upsetting to my daughter who experiences deep climate anxiety. So this is a book full of hope that I am helping birth into the world to inspire others, but also to help myself and my own family.

  Keila – Climate change literally hit home for me when Hurricane Katrina devastated my hometown of New Orleans. And the city continues to experience more powerful storms. Having felt the fear and loss of a catastrophic weather event, we set out to find youth who were speaking out and seeking solutions. It was difficult to witness this as an adult. Children felt the impact, too. It turned out our longlist included young people from all around the world. Because we all feel the impact of climate change where we live, the question is to what degree and in how many ways.

  It is a big problem which will require everyone to tackle. I am so glad so many are taking action, though we will need MANY more to do so, if we are to save the earth and those who live on it. What did your collaboration look like for No World Too Big? Was this similar to the way you created No Voice Too Small?

  Lindsay – Our collaboration process was similar for both books. The three of us communicate mostly through Slack, which archives our conversations by category, occasional video calls, and shared documents in Google Drive. We began with an initial spreadsheet of potential activists. Much like No Voice Too Small, we wanted to showcase diversity—cultural, ethnic, geographic, economic, and by type of activism. Once we all scouted names for the spreadsheet, we identified the pieces of the puzzle we wanted to fill in, pieces of the climate story we wanted to tell. We wanted someone who focused on tree planting, someone who focused on protesting, someone who focused on inventing and STEM, someone who represented the indigenous perspective, etc. Then we identified people we each wanted to contact and gain permissions from. Once we had a good idea of the activists to be featured, we began reaching out to poets who might want to write about them. Then we created a proposal and pitched it to Charlesbridge.

  Working with international activists and poets proved to be more challenging but incredibly rewarding.

  Jeanette – I got nothing.

  Lindsay – 😆🤣

• Cynsations - https://cynthialeitichsmith.com/2023/03/guest-interview-lindsay-h-metcalf-keila-v-dawson-jeanette-bradley-on-collaboration-poetry-anthologies/

  Guest Interview: Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson & Jeanette Bradley on Collaboration & Poetry Anthologies
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  By Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley

  Lindsay: Thanks to Cynsations for inviting us to discuss the collaboration process for our latest picture-book poetry anthology, No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, co-edited by Keila V. Dawson, Jeanette Bradley, and me, and illustrated so beautifully by Jeanette (Charlesbridge, March 2023). No World Too Big is a companion title to our 2020 release, No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History.

  Before we interview each other, as Gayleen Rabakukk suggested, here is the publisher’s description for No World Too Big:

  Fans of No Voice Too Small will be inspired by young climate activists who made an impact around climate change in their communities, countries, and beyond.

  Climate change impacts everyone, but the future belongs to young people. No World Too Big celebrates twelve young activists and three activist groups on the front lines of the climate crisis who have planted trees in Uganda, protected water in Canada, reduced their school bus’s climate footprint in Indonesia, invented alternate power sources in Ohio, and more. Fourteen poems by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, David Bowles, Rajani LaRocca, Renée M. LaTulippe, Heidi E. Y. Stemple, and other kidlit luminaries honor activists from all over the world and the United States. Additional text goes into detail about each activist’s life and how readers can get involved.

  Gayleen Rabakukk suggested we interview each other, but she had a couple great questions to kick us off.

  Gayleen: What sort of coordination led to the wonderful diversity of location, climate action, and poetic form?

  Lindsay: The short answer is spreadsheets, Slack, and Skype. Much like with No Voice Too Small, we knew we wanted broad representation in No World Too Big. We wanted to hit many parts of the world, among varying climates, especially across the global south. We wanted to showcase a variety of types of activism so readers could be inspired to tap into their own passions and abilities and get involved. The three of us began the hunt online and listed as many of the brilliant young activists we could find, noting their locations, types of activism, and short descriptions in a Google spreadsheet. We made draft maps from that list, color-coded the types of activism as they matched with big causes of climate change, and began assembling our proposal like a puzzle.

  Before we submitted our book proposal, we wanted to make contact with every young activist or their proxies before we included them. Then, once we had our list of activists solidified, we huddled over Skype to brainstorm poets who might feel a connection with the activists. We didn’t give the poets much direction on how to write their poems, so the diversity of forms that emerged was a lovely serendipity.

  The international element made connecting with the activists and poets more challenging, but ultimately more rewarding. Every time we made the tiniest amount of progress, Keila, Jeanette, and I celebrated in our private Slack channel, which has been essential for organizing our communication over the years.

  Interior illustration from No World Too Big by Jeanette Bradley, used with permission.
  Gayleen: Were No Voice Too Small and No World Too Big sold together, or was it clear there needed to be a second book?

  Lindsay: We sold No Voice Too Small first, in 2018, but I think the seed of a second book featuring international young activists was planted the moment we limited No Voice’s scope to the US. Our spreadsheet for NVTS had many, many international activists we had to cut, and the recurring theme was climate change. With Jeanette’s family’s background in climate science, the follow-up focus on climate activism was a no-brainer.

  Jeanette: Throughout the time we were working on No Voice Too Small, Keila kept raising the issue of our focus on American activists leaving out a whole world of young people. She kept finding these great young activists in other countries. So when I finished the art for that book, we had a conversation about what a book with an international focus would look like. Because the climate crisis is a global issue with young people taking the lead in activism, it seemed like the perfect fit. No Voice Too Small’s unifying thread is that we are all different, we are passionate about different issues, express our activism in different ways, and yet we are all Americans. No World Too Big’s thread is that no matter where in the world you live, the climate crisis is your reality, your future is at risk, and yet there are young people everywhere in the world who share your worries and who are working to make change.

  Interior illustration from No World Too Big by Jeanette Bradley, used with permission.
  Lindsay: What’s something Cynsations readers might be surprised to learn about our collaboration? Or what’s something that surprised you?

  Keila: That our collaboration, thus far, has been completely online. We haven’t all met in-person yet. In 2020, we made book launch plans and were going to present at NCTE to promote our first book, No Voice Too Small, but the pandemic hit and we scrambled to put together virtual events. We are so excited to finally get together in person for our book launch for No World Too Big (Join the co-editors at 10:30 a.m. March 15 at Politics & Prose’s Connecticut Avenue location in Washington, DC.)

  Keila: I have a question about our poems. We each have poems in this companion title. I wrote mine based on an image of a protest sign with “There is no planet B” on it. And I couldn’t get that image out of my head. I recall the first lines waking me up in the middle of the night! That’s how I ended up writing a golden shovel poem. What inspired you to write your poem the way you did?

  Jeanette: Zanagee Artis grew up not far from where I live, and his environmental worldview was shaped by Mystic Aquarium, where I have been bringing my kids for family outings and summer camps for years. Sea chanties were everywhere in 2020 when we started working on this book, and their connection to coastal New England made it feel like the perfect form to tell an epic tale of Zanagee’s high school transformation to a global activist.

  Lindsay: After speaking with Sofiia-Khrystyna Borysiuk and Nikita Shulga, two Ukrainian students who inspired hundreds of schools in their country to compost, the idea of worms-as-workhorses stayed with me. The language poured out, full of energy and poetic devices, and toward the end of the writing process I massaged the line breaks to make the whole poem, “A Recipe for Earth,” look like a squiggle. It wasn’t until I finished writing that the label of “projective verse” clicked because of the way all the elements combined to reflect the subject matter.

  Keila: Jeanette, tell us about your art, the process used to create the images and portraits and some of the decisions you made about what to include.

  Jeanette: Like No World Too Big, this book was illustrated in Procreate for the iPad using digital chalk brushes on scanned kraft paper. The main difference with this project is that the visual research was more challenging. Some of our young activists have a big social media presence or have a lot of press with photos, but others have very little—or at least very little that I was able to find by Googling in English. For example, Marinel Ubaldo’s town in the Philippines was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. The only photo I could find of her activism from before that date was in a digital annual report of a development agency.

  Interior illustration from No World Too Big by Jeanette Bradley, used with permission.
  Jeanette: How has working on this project changed your own thinking about climate change and your own way of living in the face of climate change?

  Keila: I found discussing climate change challenging, especially with adults who think these are typical weather events and naturally occurring. So having access to experts like Stephen Porder, the expert we consulted and input from Jeanette’s climate-scientist wife, both on faculty at Brown University, has been highly educational for me. Climate change is a complex topic. I pay attention to information about how the average person without a science background can grasp what needs to be done and by whom. I’ve learned about planting trees as gifts or for celebrations from Leah Namugerwa, an activist from Uganda featured in No World Too Big. And over the years, my family’s choices have changed from what we eat, where we get our food, the products we purchase, to choosing environmentally friendly companies to invest in who share our same visions for a sustainable and more equitable world.

  Lindsay: I have internalized the vital importance of collective action after growing up with the messaging that our individual choices have set us on the path to environmental ruin. While it’s true that we all must adapt to climate-friendly habits—reduce consumption, use less water, recycle/reuse, compost, switch to renewable energy sources—the overwhelming source of greenhouse gases is multinational corporations and wealthy governments like our own. That’s why it’s imperative we work together to elect leaders who innovate not only in the climate mitigation space, but also in creating policies that prevent further harm from corporations. On a personal level, I have shed most of the guilt that corresponds with the individual-responsibility mindset and just do what I can to be more climate friendly, when I can.

  Jeanette: To answer my own question, I have given myself a break on stressing over single use plastic straws and other consumer products. Instead, I’ve joined a local group that is advocating for my town to improve its bike and pedestrian pathways, which is the kind of sustainable infrastructure change that we need in order to break our dependence on fossil fuels.

  Cynsations Notes

  Author Lindsay Metcalf, photo by Anna Jackson
  Lindsay H. Metcalf is a journalist-turned-award-winning author of nonfiction picture books: Beatrix Potter, Scientist, a Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020 and Young People’s Literature Award winner from the Friends of American Writers Chicago; Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices, a Kansas Notable Book, Friends of American Writers honoree, NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and Junior Library Guild selection; and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, a Kirkus and Chicago Public Library Best Book, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and NCTE Notable Poetry Book. Forthcoming titles include No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, a poetry anthology from the team behind No Voice Too Small (Charlesbridge, spring 2023); and Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm, illustrated by Xin Li (Astra Young Readers, spring 2024). Lindsay lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, and a menagerie of pets. Learn more at lindsayhmetcalf.com and @lindsayhmetcalf on Twitter and Instagram.

No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change. Ed. by Lindsay H. Metcalf and others. Illus. by Jeanette Bradley. Mar. 2023.40p. Charlesbridge, $18.99 (9781623543136); e-book, $9.99 (9781632899644). Gr. 3-5.811.608.

Introducing climate change-combating young people and related actions readers can take, this unusual, quiedy forceful book will be a great addition to classroom and public library shelves. It starts with a macro view, with the editors briefly explaining to readers what "nearly all of the world's countries" agreed to in the Paris Agreement: "to reach climate neutrality--no increase in the greenhouse effect--by 2050." The book then zooms in on individuals and groups of young people who aren't waiting for that change. Short prose explanations of their actions are accompanied by poems in various forms that memorably address the same topics. Greta Thunberg is here, but the book also introduces lesser-known activists, such as teens from the Marshall Islands who teach their peers to advocate for island-saving progress and Leah Namugerwa, a Ugandan who planted 200 trees on her fifteenth birthday and whose Birthday Trees project helps others follow suit. Digital images portray each per son in an artful but realistic style, giving the serious topic a welcome, hopeful air. Closing the work is a helpful guide to the poetry forms used.--Henrietta Verma

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Metcalf, Lindsay H. NO WORLD TOO BIG Charlesbridge (Children's None) $18.99 3, 14 ISBN: 978-1-62354-313-6

Profiles of 12 young climate activists and three grassroots groups, matched to painted portraits and original poems.

Similar in concept to No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History (2020), by the same creators, but taking a worldwide perspective, these entries highlight successful initiatives undertaken by school-age children in locales from the Marshall Islands to Ukraine and the Americas. Though Greta Thunberg--flashing her magnificent scowl in Bradley's digital pastel--is the subject of one of the early entries, the other chosen activists will be mostly unfamiliar to readers. The poems are largely identified as free verse, such as one by Traci Sorell that acrostically spells out the name of Indigenous Brazilian tree planter Artemisa Xakriabá, but include examples of less common forms, too, such as a dokugin (or single-author) renga by David Bowles praising Mexica activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, and a Vietnamese-style luÌ£c bát by Teresa Robeson commemorating the work of biodiesel-promoting "Grease Police" on Bali. The editors spread prompts for both individual and collective action throughout and add capsule biographies of the poets and descriptions of each kind of poem at the close. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Inspiring examples for fledgling defenders of the environment. (glossary) (Informational picture book/poetry. 6-12)

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Verma, Henrietta. "No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change." Booklist, vol. 119, no. 14, 15 Mar. 2023, p. 46. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A742922096/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=3f08b458. Accessed 19 May 2023. "Metcalf, Lindsay H.: NO WORLD TOO BIG." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Dec. 2022, p. NA. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A729072539/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=86749ce1. Accessed 19 May 2023.

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