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Nature 450, 947-948 (13 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/450947a; Published online 12 December 2007

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Children's books: Young planet-savers

Tom Standage1

BOOK REVIEWEDIs That a Butterfly

by Claire Llewellyn; & Ant Parker (illus.)

Macmillan: £3.85

BOOK REVIEWEDGeorge Saves the World by Lunchtime

by Jo Readman ; & Ley Honor Roberts (illus.)

Eden Project: £5.99

BOOK REVIEWEDSpud Goes Green

by Giles Thaxton

Egmont: £4.99

BOOK REVIEWED101 Ways to Save the Earth

by David Bellamy; & Penny Dann (illus.)

Frances Lincoln: £5.99

BOOK REVIEWEDSuperkids: 250 Incredible Ways for Kids to Save the Planet

by Sasha Norris

; edited by Malcolm Tait; Rupert Davies (illus.)
Think: £5.99

BOOK REVIEWEDAn Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming

by Al Gore

Bloomsbury: £9.99

     Their parents grew up in the shadow of a possible nuclear war. Children today are growing up in the knowledge that the environment is in peril — and that some actions make things better whereas others make things worse.