You Can Change the World

Shortlisted, ABIA Small Publishers’ Children’s Book of the Year, 2020
Shortlisted, Australian Book Design Award – Best Designed Children’s Non-Fiction Illustrated Book, 2020
Shortlisted, The Environment Award for Children’s Literature, 2020
Kids are on a mission to make our Earth a better, safer, happier place, and you can join in!

Every day, we see a problem we would like to fix. A piece of rubbish in a green, grassy park. Plastic water bottles buried in the sand at the beach. A garbage bin overflowing onto the street. A skinny, stray dog. A homeless person on a cold day.These problems seem impossible for one person to change. But we can fix them, if we each do our part – one step at a time.

This practical guide is designed to empower kids to make changes in their lives to help make a difference in the world. Filled with information, ideas and activities, and interspersed with features on amazing children around the world.

This book shows kids how to:

• Avoid single-use plastics

• Throw a plastic-free party

• Make a compost bin and reduce waste

• Start a herb garden

• Grow bee-friendly flowers

• Learn about where their food comes from

• Be kinder to others, share and donate

Kids are on a mission to make our earth a better, safer, happier place.

And anyone can join in.

About the Author

Lucy Bell is a book editor and music teacher on a journey to live a more ethical, sustainable and mindful life.

After getting her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney with majors in English and Ancient History, Lucy studied a Master of Publishing. Now she works for a social-purpose publishing house making big differences and helping fund not-for-profits and charities to close the literacy gap.

Lucy grew up on the NSW Central Coast surrounded by four siblings, a cat, two dogs, two sheep, a lizard, lots of guinea pigs and thirteen chickens. She now lives in Sydney and while watering her balcony garden, dreams of one day owning her own country farmhouse.