SuitabookDirty air
Ellen Lawrence
- Reading
- Read it together, pause before the activities and experiments, and distinguish the book’s factual explanations from its suggestions about changing everyday energy and travel choices.
- Themes
- Environmental responsibility: The book addresses environmental responsibility; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. It appears to combine factual environmental explanation with encouragement towards practical behaviour changes; the balance and strength of that advocacy are not clear.
- Health and ecological effects: The book asks whether air pollution can make people ill and explains that acid rain hurts animals and plants. These effects are presented as questions and informational content, but the emotional tone and level of detail remain unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to references to illness, damaged animals and plants, and pollution from transport and industry; these topics may invite explanation and reassurance while reading together.