SuitabookA Planet Full of Plastic: and how you can help
Neal Layton
- Reading
- Read it together, pausing to distinguish facts from suggested actions. Discuss any upsetting wildlife images, then choose one achievable project, such as reusing an item or planning a clean-up.
- Themes
- Plastic and environmental responsibility: The book explains plastic’s development and use, then focuses on what can happen when plastic reaches places where it does not belong. Plastic is presented as useful but environmentally harmful when mismanaged; the emphasis is on understanding effects and taking practical steps.
- Children’s agency and collective action: Children are encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle, undertake practical projects and contribute their own ideas, alongside examples of campaigners and inventors. The book presents children as capable contributors while ending with the idea that working together can improve the situation.
- Worth knowing
- Pay attention to the balance between troubling images and hopeful responses: marine animals are shown tangled in or eating waste, while later pages present collective action and scientific ideas.