{"id":8766651007213,"title":"How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up","handle":"how-to-explain-climate-science-to-a-grown-up","description":"\u003ch6\u003eComing March 4, 2025. Pre-order today!\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER AUTHOR\/ILLUSTRATOR INFO BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/ruth-spiro\"\u003eRuth Spiro\u003c\/a\u003e \/ Illustrated by: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/teresa-martinez\"\u003eTeresa Martínez\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER HEADING BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do you talk with your grown-up about climate change? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER DESCRIPTION BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo you want to know a secret? Sometimes grown-ups need YOU to explain things to THEM. 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How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up

Coming March 4, 2025. Pre-order today!

By: Ruth Spiro / Illustrated by: Teresa Martínez

How do you talk with your grown-up about climate change? 

Do you want to know a secret? Sometimes grown-ups need YOU to explain things to THEM. Like climate science!

In this tongue-in-cheek guide, an in-the-know narrator instructs kid readers in the fine art of explaining climate science to a grown-up. Both children and their adults learn:
  • The difference between weather and climate.
  • How climate scientists collect data.
  • What causes climate change.
  • What we can do to reverse course and repair the planet.

Fun and fact-filled, the How to Explain Science series will empower kid experts to explore complex scientific concepts with any grown-up who will listen.

Maximum quantity available reached.

Ruth Spiro, author

Ruth Spiro is the author of the best-selling Baby Loves Science series, which has been praised for introducing "big science to little minds with the skill of a neurosurgeon" (Matthew Winner, All the Wonders podcast). Ruth also wrote the Made by Maxine picture-book series. She speaks regularly at STEM and early-childhood conferences across the country.

Read more about Ruth.


Teresa Martínez, illustrator

When Teresa Martínez was a child, her family moved from a small town to the city. Drawing helped shy Teresa connect with the other kids at school. Now she connects with children across Mexico and around the world through the books she illustrates, including Mario and the Hole in the Sky; Again, Essie?; and Sing with Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla.

Read more about Teresa.

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Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-620-5

Ages: 4–8
Page count: 32
8 x 10

Publication date: March 4, 2025