Sona Sharma, Looking After Planet Earth

Informationen zum Autor Chitra Soundar grew up in Chennai, India, in a multigenerational family that was filled with small fights, big laughter, and lots of stories. An award-winning author of more than forty books for children, she loves writing picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and verse. Chitra Soundar travels the world visiting schools and appearing at festivals to bring Indian stories to children everywhere. She lives in London. Jen Khatun is an award-winning illustrator whose work incorporates whimsy and playfulness in each line. Based in England, she enjoys living close to the sea and regularly walks through the beautiful downs to fuel her creativity. Klappentext "When Sona learns about the climate crisis at school and is very worried that no one is doing enough to combat it, she takes up the challenge herself. But Appa isn't amused when Sona throws out her baby sister's nappies and Thatha isn't happy when she tells him to get rid of his colour-coded plastic files. When Sona learns that many of the kolams -the traditional art that people draw in front of their homes to celebrate the winter months and the festival season-are not organic, she sets out to make some big changes by getting everyone involved"-- Leseprobe Start small, Start now Sona Sharma lives in a large joint family full of happy people who argue sometimes. Relatives come over unannounced, the phone rings often, and everyone is always welcome whatever the time.    These are Sona’s people:   Amma – Sona’s mom. She is a music teacher and singer. She’s always humming a song or listening to music.   Minmini – Minmini means firefly and she is Sona’s baby sister who is almost one.   Appa – Sona’s dad. He works with computers all day and sometimes at night too.   Thatha – Sona’s grandfather. He knows a lot of things. And when he doesn’t know about something, he tells a story about something else.   Paatti – Sona’s grandmother. She makes the best sweets in the whole world. She always laughs at Thatha’s jokes.  The President – Sona’s other grandmother. Sona doesn’t know her real name. The President used to be the president of some college, so everyone calls her that still. She lives in the only orange house in the entire neighborhood, called the Orange.  Joy and Renu – Sona’s friends from school. They live a street away and go to school with Sona in an auto-rickshaw.   Mullai – Sona’s auto-rickshaw driver. She picks up Sona, Joy, and Renu, in that order, to drop off at school. In the evening she takes them home—Renu first, Joy next, and Sona last. She’s never late and recites a lot of Tamil poetry.   Elephant – Sona’s best friend. He fits perfectly in her toy bag and her cuddly chair and next to her on her pillow. Sona never goes anywhere without him, except, of course, to school.     It was Friday morning and Sona was in class. She was sitting in the front with Joy and Renu.    “Good morning, everyone,” said their teacher, Miss Rao. “Today we’re going to talk about planet Earth.”    Sona loved planet Earth, so she listened carefully. She didn’t want to miss a thing.    “Our planet Earth is in trouble,” said Miss Rao. “Our summers are getting hotter and our rainy seasons are causing more floods. Scientists have been studying this and they believe our planet is heating up—”    “Heating up?” interrupted Joy.    “Yes,” said Miss Rao. “More cars on the road cause more heat in the air.”    “And more smoke,” said Renu.    “That’s right,” said Miss Rao. “And our oceans are polluted too.”    “I love going to the beach,” said Sona. “But the waves bring a lot of garbage back.”    “Yes, that’s because we throw a lot of our garbage into the ocean,” said Miss Rao.    “I don’t,” said Sona. “Paatti always makes me bring my garbage back in a bag.”    “That’s goo...

Product details

• Authors: Jen Khatun, Chitra Soundar
• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2024
• EAN: 9781536231960
• ISBN: 978-1-5362-3196-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Sona Sharma
• Subject: Children's and young people's books