Showing posts with label Katie Cottle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katie Cottle. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
"The Blue Giant" by Katie Cottle (Pavilion Children's Books)
Saving our planet, and the plastic in our oceans is of course a hugely important topic that children are focused on at the moment, and this book brings a gentle story of Coral and her mum who are enjoying a lovely day at the beach, when an urgent plea for help comes - directly from the ocean itself!
It's a giant. A blue giant. It is made of water, fish, and sea plants and has a stirring plea to help clean up the ocean.
Coral and her mom agree to help, donning their scuba-diving outfits and setting off to sea. But they can't do it alone...can they?
This stunning follow-up to Katie Cottle's debut picture book The Green Giant is another entertaining and beautiful eco-tale from the 2017 winner of the Batsford Prize.
It introduces children to the issues of pollution, waste management, and the oceans, with suggestions of lifestyle changes to help clean up our seas.
Sum this book up in a sentence: A gorgeously illustrated book for mini eco warriors, urging us to take better care of our oceans.
"The Blue Giant" by Katie Cottle will be released in August 2020, published by Pavilion Children's Books (kindly supplied for review).
Friday, 22 March 2019
ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 22nd March 2019: "The Green Giant" by Katie Cottle (Pavilion Children's Books)
"The Green Giant" by Katie Cottle is absolutely perfect, combining all the elements that we'd normally love to bits in a standard 'story' picture book, but subtly weaving in a distinct moral message about how we take our world for granted, how we do the most terrible things to it, and what the impact of continuing to behave like that will ultimately lead to.
Will we have a world fit to leave to our children?
The Green Giant here isn't some sweetcorn-shilling lantern-jawed chap. He's discovered in a mysterious rusting old greenhouse at a young girl's grandad's house.
Bea, and her dog, Iris, are staying with her grandad in the country and Bea quickly become bored when Grandad is always busy.
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| Sometimes doing nothing can be so boooooooring! |
Soon though Iris's adventures lead her to the greenhouse and she meets the giant for the first time. Bea is scared, but the giant reassures her and explains that he has escaped from the grey city.
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| Yeah I'd be scared, well a little... |
Bea and the giant become friends, but can they do anything to make the grey city, and the world, a greener place?
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| So much for the city...the green giant is country-bound |
We love the Giant's suggested solution of becoming guerilla seed bombers, planting beautiful plants and wild flowers in any scrap of dirt we can find in the city we live in (which is actually something we've done before, it's very simple to gather up wild poppy seeds in the summer, let them dry over winter, then make them into muddy seed bombs to plant the next spring).
Sum this book up in a sentence: A glorious story, a beautifully written and illustrated eco-message, and a fantastic idea to give kids inspiration to make their own green spaces and make our world a better place.
"The Green Giant" by Katie Cottle is out now, published by Pavilion Children's Books (kindly supplied for review).
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