Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world: 1

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I applaud the author and illustrator for taking such a complex, yet crucial message and explain it in a way that small children can comprehend. Climate change is real and we can’t afford to ignore it. Greta Thunberg’s courage is inspiring and sets a wonderful example to kids and adults alike of how important it is to stand up for what you believe, even when faced with powerful, frightening giants. Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Greta and the Giants will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story. We have differentiated this resource seven ways to focus on identifying where one sentence ends and another begins, right down to capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, for names, and full stop at the end.

Your class will either identify the fronted adverbials in the passage for the first activity or add in some of the commonly known fronted adverbials in the second activity from a list. That is not what this picture book is though. As the blurb states (which I obviously didn't read properly), this is an allegory (a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.). Once I got my head around the fact that this wasn't a narrative non fiction title about Greta, I was most impressed. It's the perfect starting point to talk about this amazing young activist with young readers. There's nothing in this book to indicate whether Greta is even aware of it, let alone approves of it, since all we get is: "inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world." But in the end I decided a book like this will do more good than bad, and since it aims to get a useful message out there, and since 3% of the cover price is going to 350.org, which is an international environmental organization aiming to do something concrete about climate change, I have to hope that this book has the same good and selfless intentions that Greta has. This is an absolutely gorgeous picture book inspired by Greta Thunberg and her fight against climate change and the institutions that will not change to save this world. This allegorical story is aimed at 4-7-year olds: the simple, descriptive language and bright, colourful pictures will really capture the imagination of this age group. The story is told just as much through the pictures as through the text.

Greta is a young girl that lived in the forest. One morning she woke up and found all the animals huddled together under the trees. The giants that had always been there had been busy building homes, buildings, towns, and cities. They built until there was hardly any forest left. Nobody stopped the giants as they were all scared of them. Of course, this book has a happy ending that's not very realistic in our current political and social climate. But it's still important for a book like this to exist because it provides an important springboard for talking to kids about climate change. It also points out that although Greta was the catalyst, she's far from the only person fighting the good fight. Based on Greta Thunberg's mission to save our environment. In this book, Greta tries to save a forest. The animals speak with her and she takes on the giants who tear down the forest and build cities, etc. Pete the badger likes to keep everything neat and tidy, but his over-zealous cleaning begins to have a damaging impact on the forest. This entertaining picture book, with its rich illustrations, carries an important environmental message. In this story Greta sees how the giants have been destroying the forest around her house and decides to protest in hopes of getting the attention of the giants and convince them to stop.

As Greta was in the forest, animals came to her asking for help. The Giants were greedy and destroying the forest to create towns, cities, and factories. The animals were too scared to speak to them! Also a budding author, the first picture book she wrote, Ada Lovelace and the Number-Crunching Machine (September 2019), was described as Inspiring, feminist, and informative in equal parts by Kirkus. The illustrations are adorable and will grab both the child's and adult's attention whilst sparking a conversation about climate change and humans' effect on the environment. This book takes wonderful story about such a strong girl and makes it relatable for young children. This story is about perseverance and getting others to follow so people will take notice of the little people. The illustrations are wonderfully done and Greta looks awesome!I love Greta. She's such an inspiration! What she did and is doing is changing our world, hopefully for the best, making people aware of what we're doing and how maybe it's not too late and we can still do something to stop the climate change and help Earth.