Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us

By Debbie Levy

The Nature Generation's Green Earth Book Award Winner 2025
NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2025
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of 2024
New York Public Library Best Books of 2024
A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year 2025

A nonfiction picture book about amazing ways that the Earth removes carbon from the air, and amazing ways people can help, offering a fresh and hopeful perspective on climate change.

The Earth has a problem: there's too much carbon in the air.

Luckily, the Earth also has amazing powers to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere-like the power of kelp, mangroves, and dirt. Although these powers alone cannot get us out of the climate crisis we're facing, the Earth has another important power: the power of people People have the power to change, protect, innovate, and invent.

In this informational picture book, Debbie Levy and Alex Boersma paint an encouraging yet honest picture of the problems at hand and some of the ways that we can address them. Thanks to the power of nature and the ingenuity of people, change is in the air

The perfect book if you're looking for:
-a hopeful, accessible, and science-packed book about climate change for kids
-the perfect read for Earth Day
-fascinating facts about cool and surprising ways that Earth heals itself
-a STEM picture book that explains the science of carbon and its roles in our world

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1547612061
• ISBN13: 9781547612062
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3