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  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781623546205
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $32.99

How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up





The best-selling author of the Baby Loves Science series levels up with this playful STEM picture book introducing kids (and grown-ups) to climate science.

The best-selling author of the Baby Loves Science series levels up with this playful STEM picture book introducing kids (and grown-ups) to climate science.

Do you want to know a secret? Sometimes grown-ups need YOU to explain things to THEM. Like climate science!

In this tongue-in-cheek guide, an in-the-know narrator instructs kid readers in the fine art of explaining climate science to a grown-up. Both children and their adults learn:

  • The difference between weather and climate.
  • How climate scientists collect data.
  • What causes climate change.
  • What we can do to reverse course and repair the planet.

Fun and fact-filled, the How to Explain Science to a Grown-Up series will empower kid experts to explore complex scientific concepts with any grown-up who will listen.
  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781623546205
  • Imprint: Charlesbridge Children
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Ruth Spiro

Ruth Spiro is the author of the How to Explain Science to a Grown-Up series, the Made by Maxine series, and the best-selling Baby Loves Science series, which has been praised by NPR, Today, Popular Science, the Los Angeles Times, and more. Ruth speaks regularly at STEM and early-childhood conferences across the country.

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Praise for How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up

Praise for the Baby Loves Science series (Spiro):

  • Amazon “20 Best Children’s Books of the Year for Baby-Age 2”
  • LA Times ”Hottest Books” Holiday Gift Guide
  • Barnes & Noble “7 Beautiful Designer-Approved Board Books”
  • Here Wee Read “55 Best Diverse Picture Books”
  • American Scientist “STEM Books for Young Children”
  • The Planetary Society “Recommended Space Books for Kids”

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