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The Planet Keeper: The Complete Guide for Kids to Protect Our Planet with Real Science, Inspiring Stories, and Everyday Actions Environmental Book for
Paperback
General Juvenile NonfictionScience & Nature
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 29 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world is changing, and children are curious about what is happening to it. The Planet Keeper gives young readers the knowledge, real world examples, and practical tools to understand environmental challenges and discover what they can do.
This engaging environmental science book takes children on a journey through climate change, water, plastic, forests and wildlife, food, energy, and sustainable communities, explaining important ideas in clear, age appropriate language.
WHAT YOUR CHILD WILL GAINREAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Children discover how Earth's systems work and explore the science behind climate change, the water cycle, plastic pollution, biodiversity, food systems, renewable energy, and sustainable communities.
REAL STORIES THAT INSPIRE
Your child will meet young people who took action and learn how ideas can become meaningful contributions. The book features environmental changemakers from different countries, showing children that age does not prevent them from learning, contributing, and using their voice.
PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Learning becomes something children can experience for themselves.
They can complete activities such as a water detective challenge, plastic audit, biodiversity survey, home energy audit, carbon footprint activity, and community environmental action.
A PERSONAL PLAN FOR ACTION
The final chapter brings everything together with the Planet Keeper Plan, where children identify specific actions they can take at home, at school or in their community, choose something they want to keep learning about, use their voice, and plan a bigger project.
INSIDE THIS BOOK, CHILDREN EXPLORE:OUR PLANET
How Earth's air, water, land, and living systems work together.
CLIMATE CHANGE
What is happening to our climate and why it matters.
WATER
Why freshwater is precious and how everyday choices can help protect it.
PLASTIC
Where plastic goes, how it affects the environment, and what children can do differently.
FORESTS AND WILDLIFE
How trees, animals, insects, soil, and ecosystems are connected.
FOOD
The surprising connection between what we eat and the environment.
ENERGY
How we use energy and how renewable energy is changing the way the world is powered.
CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
How communities can create cleaner, healthier, more sustainable places to live.
Throughout the book, children are encouraged to notice, question, investigate, learn, and act. They build an understanding of environmental issues, see examples of people creating change, complete activities connected to their own lives, and finish by creating a specific Planet Keeper Plan of their own.
BY THE END OF THE BOOK, YOUR CHILD WILL HAVE:A stronger understanding of environmental science.
Real examples of young people making a difference.
Practical activities they can try in everyday life.
A clearer sense of how their choices connect to the environment.
Their own Planet Keeper Plan with specific actions they want to take.
A WONDERFUL CHOICE FOR HOME, SCHOOL, AND LIBRARYThe Planet Keeper is designed for young readers ages 8 to 13 and works beautifully as an independent reading book, a parent and child discussion book, a classroom resource, or a library addition.
Give a curious child the opportunity to understand the planet, discover what they can do, and start their own Planet Keeper journey.
The planet is their home. Now they can learn how to help care for it.
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