All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change

by Leslie Davenport, Jessica Smith (Illustrator)

Overview

KIDS' BOOK CHOICE AWARDS finalist!

All the Feelings Under the Sun is a timely, thoughtful book that will help kids work through your feelings of anxiety and stress relating to climate change.

Kids will get an expert understanding of the science behind climate crisis, plus engage with lots of do-able self-guided activities, journaling prompts, and useful resources. Readers will also hear about other kids around the world who have made a difference that just may inspire them to practice eco-justice and combat global climate injustice themselves, by putting their own eco-values into action.

All the Feelings Under the Sun is bound to help kids find just want they need to manage stress, anxiety, and all those big emotions about climate, the environment, and ecosystems, and become better equipped to take an eco-wise approach to life and make their own part of the world a little healthier and happier, too. Kids will discover all the ways that nature is beautiful, powerful, delicate, fierce, mysterious, and awesome, but also learn how rising temperatures are affecting everything—plants, animals, people, and the environment—and what they can do about it. 






 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433833915
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1140L (what's this?)
Age Range:	11 - 14 Years

About the Author

Leslie Davenport is a Marriage and Family Therapist bringing 30 years of clinical experience to the emerging field of Climate Psychology. She works as an educator and consultant to institutes recognizing the benefits of behavioral research for cultural shifts and policy change. She is the author of three previous books, including Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change. Leslie has worked at Ground Zero on disaster mental health teams and is on faculty with the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has offices in Tacoma, WA, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit lesliedavenport.com.

Jessica Smith is a recent graduate from Falmouth University. She lives in Oxford, UK. Visit jessicasmithillustration.co.uk, @JS_Illustration on Twitter, and @Jessica_Smith_Illustration on Instagram.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 How We Know What We Know 19

Chapter 2 The Earth is Heading Up 35

Chapter 3 Everything is Connected 57

Chapter 4 Practicing Eco-Justice 85

Chapter 5 Making a Healthier World Together 107

Glossary 135

Note for Parents, Caregivers, Teachers, and Counselors 139

Directories of Climate-Aware Therapists 143

Acknowledgments 145

About the Author, Illustrator, and Magination Press 147

Bibliography 149

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2022

Gr 5–9—A cross between an emotional support workbook and a climate change science primer. Illustrations or graphs on nearly every page make this an accessible title for upper middle graders and middle schoolers. Each chapter (for instance, "Practicing Eco-Justice," "Everything Is Connected") presents activities, such as conducting meditation exercises and making lists and notes for oneself. Students are encouraged to reflect on a variety of aspects of climate change. There are also pages devoted to introducing youth activists who are making a difference in their communities. For students interested in environmental issues and climate change, as well as the emotions that these topics stir up, this may be just the book they need. Some of the exercises included are aimed at helping kids reflect on grief, gratitude, and empathy; they also encourage kids to pause to reflect, breathe, and spend time outdoors. Back matter includes a glossary and notes for educators, parents, and caregivers. VERDICT Taking on everything from bees to disease to emotions, this workbook is a general purchase where patron interest in climate change activism is strong. Educators may find it useful for classroom learning and discussions.—Linda Annable

School Library Journal

2021-07-14
Learning about climate change can arouse all kinds of feelings, but there are ways to cope with them and to use them productively.

A therapist experienced in the field of climate psychology offers tween and teen readers a combination of climate change facts and coping tools. She provides solid information about what we now know about climate change, its causes and consequences, and how we’ve learned that, interspersing her explanations with self-help suggestions. She encourages readers to identify their own values, think about how these values can help them face the challenges of a changing world, and develop their own climate action plan. Each of the five chapters includes one or more examples of a teen or teen group that has been active in a variety of climate issues. Each includes numerous exercises designed to help kids recognize their feelings and “build emotional resilience”; these include rating the strengths of their feelings, creating snow globe–like “mindfulness jars,” and civic engagement. Concepts like eco-grief, systemic racism, negativity bias, and window of tolerance are set in boldface and defined both in context and in a helpful glossary, but there’s no index. The writer’s assumption is that learning about climate change might make her readers feel frightened, sad, nervous, or angry and that climate injustice is unfair. She encourages them to recognize and act on these feelings, but she does not acknowledge that they might encounter people who disagree with them. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

An interesting and unusual approach to eco-awareness for tweens and teens. (note for caregivers, directory of climate-aware therapists, acknowledgments, bibliography) (Nonfiction. 11-16)

Kirkus Reviews