pretty educational, but two of the taz kids found it super: The book "The little polar bear, the it is to become hot".

How do I explain to children the climate change? Cover of the children's book on global warming photo: oekom

product: The book "The little polar bear, the it is to become hot" by Christina Hagn and Julia Patschorke.

This is it: is A 36-page Hardcover picture book about climate change for children from the age of 5, which is published at the beginning of February in the Oekom-Verlag.

it can: on the Basis of the story of the little polar bear conveys the author Christina Hagn, such as greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere and how you can help to reduce. The polar bear can not play more snow football, because the ice freezes over. As a Mama polar bear tells him that it is always a late, cold, because the living beings around the world make a lot of hot air, he writes the other animals of the letters. Koala, Bunny, and Tiger find many ideas on what you can disable to do against the warm air (for example, light, when it is not needed). Mainly because of the colorful illustrations by Julia Patschorke the book is also suitable as a read-aloud story for kids of preschool age.

However, the response of the polar bears-a mother on the question of the cause of climate change miss to understand is: "There are more and more living beings on the earth, and every living creature that makes every day warm air. You probably didn't know that the warm air the ice melts,“ she says. More important than the population growth, the life style is but. The global emissions of greenhouse gases since the 19th century. Century, has grown much stronger than the world's population.

This means: We have tested it with two children (5 and 8 years). You had to pity the little polar bear, cursing the Tiger that burns just for the fun of it with a loud motorcycle gasoline. Pretty educational, but the children found it exciting, fun and thrilling. And after reading you have lubricated Papa any actual or perceived climate of sin on the bread. On second read, you might also make yourself the light, if the room is empty...

Since you can get it: "The little polar bear, the it is to become hot" is for 14 Euro in the book trade or oekom.de available.

So is the fun factor: is High!