9 Great environmental books for children

Help your child understand how important our planet is and the positive changes we can all make with DK’s best climate change books for kids. Covering everything from recycling and the small everyday changes you can make, to the science of plastic and the cause of climate change.

A beautifully illustrated picture book about Finn, the fisherman, and his dog Skip, who discover how much damage human rubbish is doing to the sea that they love so much. You and your child will follow the pair as they learn about the changes they can make that will make a big difference to their favourite fishing spot.

With an introduction by Steve Backshall, teenage activists Amy and Ella Meek explain all about how reducing single use plastics will help save our planet. Discover who Amy and Ella’s favourite environmental heroes are, including David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, and how your child can become an environmental activist too!

Save the planet while doing crafts! These 15 crafts for kids use items from your recycling pile to create a bee hotel, pencil pots, bracelets, bookmarks, a shadow theatre and more! Information about the environment shows children why it is better to reuse and recycle.

Budding musicians can learn how to play eight year old Frankie’s song about the beauty of our world alongside discovering more about endangered animals and how to save our planet. Parenting magazine, Juno, described World in Danger as ‘a wonderful reflection from a child about what is important and why.’

In What a Waste, author Jess French reveals extraordinary facts about the waste we produce and its impact on us and our planet. She also shows us what we can do to help protect our planet. DK asked children to tell us what they thought of the book: one said ‘you learn lots of facts that you never would have heard before!'

Written by Keilly Swift, the managing editor of children’s newspaper First News, How to Make a Better World is a treasure trove of positive ideas and changes children can make in all aspects of their life to make a better world for them, for their families, their communities and their future.

A great general introduction laying out the science behind the natural process of climate change that has been massively sped up by humans, covering everything from the impact of traffic pollution to animal farming, and the widespread effects of this change.