Allen &Unwin ISBN: 9781911631309 £11.99
At a time when air pollution is an important global topic this beautifully illustrated picture book for young children, will enhance the learning of geography of pollution as well as being a general book of interest to primary school children. Sustainability and the transformation of the global environmental conditions are important topics for the young child to embrace. This book is the story of a young inventor who makes a machine that will clean air. She takes the machine to the large city which has terrible air pollution. After various rebuffs, she persuades the people that she has a solution to their problem. This picture book is a story of hope. It provides an opportunity for primary schools to see the problems of pollution and the chance to see what an active, effective citizen’s role could be to make a difference to the global environmental problems. There are many future sustainable concerns and issues. Here is one book which may make the children think about the pollution problem in urban areas.
Paul Baker