The Meeks took 2014-2015 as a family year out of formal education and work to travel round Britain in search of adventure. This book of 100 ideas and activities to get you venturing outside and beyond your comfort zone with your nearest and dearest is the result. Fun and motivating, each double page spread boasts…
Jeffrey Sachs is an eminent analyst of global development. His new book The Age of Sustainable Development, which was recently presented and discussed at UN headquarters in New York, gives an insight into the current post-2015 negotiations and the concept of sustainable development. The publishers say: Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world’s most perceptive and…
Environmental Worldviews – a historical approach is a book by Richard Jurin with contributions from John Disinger, Clay Schoenfeld and Jennifer Tomsen which will be published by Kendall Hunt in 2016. This, then, is not so much a review as an alert. The key idea behind the book is that human–environment relationships are the result…
Don’t even Think about it: why our brains are wired to ignore climate change It was the enticing title that persuaded me to order ‘Don’t even Think about it‘ from our library. There was just one copy in the whole county of Cumbria, so it wasn’t high in the popularity charts, which is just the status…
A Year Around the Great Oak is a beautifully written and illustrated picture book telling the story of two children, Benjamin and Anna, who visit their forester uncle through the year. The story tracks the cycle through the seasons of a three hundred year old oak tree and the children’s relationship with it through the year, as…
A Seed in Need, is part of the Little Bees information picture book series, this beautifully illustrated and well-laid out book perfectly reinforces the stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant. The information about the stages snakes its way across each page, and additional facts are drawn out through a conversation between an…
‘I Love my World’ claims to be the book most used by qualified Forest School teachers, endorsed by no less than Michael Morpurgo. It is packed full of well thought-out, inspiring ideas for leading outdoor activities with children, teenagers and adults. Holland’s teaching plans are empowering and precise, with clear instructions on how to prepare,…
Thinking Allowed on Schooling is crammed with down-to-earth common sense observations and advice, formed from exhaustive research and vast experience of all levels in the education system. As a Cumbrian colleague, I could be accused of bias in my comments about this book, but Mick Water’s track record speaks volumes. He started as a primary…
‘Superworm’ is written and illustrated by the team who produced the hugely successful book, ‘The Gruffalo’. Superworm is a hero to all of the animals around him, helping them out with any problems they encounter. As a result, he is highly valued and respected and the animals rally round to support him when he ends…
What has nature ever done for us? is the title of a well-received book by Tony Juniper which was published in 2013 by Profile Books? As the blurb says: “… nature provides the ‘natural services’ that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests;…
A quick internet search or time spent in this sector tells you that the world is not short of books offering activities to do in the great outdoors. However, credit must be given to the authors of ‘Learning with Nature’ who have written a book which stands out in this sea of titles and offers…
This is the second edition of Young Children and the Environment, which was first published in 2010. It is revised and updated, with 7 new chapters including a section exploring sustainability education in a variety of global contexts. Its authors now come from across the world, although over half of them are still based in…