'The journey home' tells a beautiful story of animals losing their homes due to what humans are doing, starting with a polar bear whose home has melte'The journey home' tells a beautiful story of animals losing their homes due to what humans are doing, starting with a polar bear whose home has melted, who meets a panda in the city, who meets a monkey with nothing to climb as all the trees have been chopped down, who meets an elephant which hunters are trying to catch him for his tusks. Together they work to find themselves a safe place to live! This book has a mixture of wordless pages with some gorgeous illustrations, along with small chunks of writing to help tell the story. At the end of this book, there is also activities as well as facts about the animals, what happened to them and what is happening now to help them!...more
Such a clever way of showing children just how beautiful the world was and could be if we stop doing the things which are ruining it. All of the littlSuch a clever way of showing children just how beautiful the world was and could be if we stop doing the things which are ruining it. All of the little facts running throughout the book is a special touch which will be the small things children remember. Also, children can learn that there can be multiple kinds of one thing, an example in the book of 100,000 types of mushrooms which is a number so big that a child would struggle to even visualize it. But then to show how animals can disappear just as fast as they are found, with a double page spread of a few extinct animals in a museum and explaining that if we continue in the world the way we are, more and more animals will end up extinct. This book could be used for topics or projects with so many possible end outcomes for them to complete....more