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Little Book for Big Changes: Activities and tips to make the world a better place
Packed with over 100 puzzles, games, craft activities, experiments and tips for children aged 7+, Little Book for Big Changes offers fun, educational and creative ways to bring people together to help change the world. This innovative activity book encourages young people to become responsible global citizens, develop understanding, empathy and a sense of responsibility, empowering them to protect the environment and to make the world fairer. Includes tips on how to recycle and reduce plastic waste. Little Book for Big Changes helps young people understand complex global challenges such as inequality and climate change, and is designed to inform, empower and motivate tomorrow's leaders to help make the world a better place.
64 pages, Paperback
Published November 22, 2018
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April 27, 2021
Insultingly Simplistic
It is no easy task to try to explain the greatest global problems and how to fix them in 64 pages, so I applaud the authors for the attempt. Their explanations of the issues weren’t the best—they definitely glossed over a lot of the deep and systemic issues—but I can excuse that, especially given the space and age constraints. And they made it through an entire book about the world’s most pressing issues without once mentioning the word race. A little suspicious.
However, their ideas for “helping” solve these problems were insultingly simplistic, teaching kids to pay lip service to issues rather than actually getting involved. Of course, I would never expect a book for this age group to tell kids to start organizing protests or volunteering with organizations on their own. However, the encouragement to “pretend” like they are poor (apparently to improve empathy?) or to go bird watching (who knows why) seem more to be teaching kids to pay lip service to the issues in our world rather than learning more and taking meaningful action.
It is no easy task to try to explain the greatest global problems and how to fix them in 64 pages, so I applaud the authors for the attempt. Their explanations of the issues weren’t the best—they definitely glossed over a lot of the deep and systemic issues—but I can excuse that, especially given the space and age constraints. And they made it through an entire book about the world’s most pressing issues without once mentioning the word race. A little suspicious.
However, their ideas for “helping” solve these problems were insultingly simplistic, teaching kids to pay lip service to issues rather than actually getting involved. Of course, I would never expect a book for this age group to tell kids to start organizing protests or volunteering with organizations on their own. However, the encouragement to “pretend” like they are poor (apparently to improve empathy?) or to go bird watching (who knows why) seem more to be teaching kids to pay lip service to the issues in our world rather than learning more and taking meaningful action.
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