Butterfly Wings: A Hopeful Story About Climate Anxiety

The book "Butterfly Wings" is a children's book that addresses climate anxiety through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy. It offers anxiety relief and a social-emotional learning tool for parents and teachers to discuss climate change with kids. The book aims to help young readers understand their feelings and offer hope for a different future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada

When ten-year-old Florent overhears his mother's discussing the possibility of having another baby, his mind races off into a spiral of fear and guilt. Is the planet suffering because there are too many children, children like him? Do his parents think they made a mistake by bringing him into the world? One night, Florent dreams that the forests have all burned to the ground and that his parents are flying away on a spaceship, abandoning him on a ruined planet. When he wakes up, he decides to stop talking until a discussion with his mother changes everything.

At a time when climate change is negatively impacting kids' mental health, Butterfly Wings provides:

Anxiety relief: provides a safe space for kids to process their anxiety, fear, and other emotions about the climate.

A social-emotional learning tool for parents and teachers to talk about climate change with kids through a gentle and hopeful lens.

Through thoughtful words and gorgeous illustrations, this compassionate story confronts the very real challenge of climate anxiety in a way that is accessible to young readers.

Butterfly Wings provides children with a way to understand their feelings, while also offering hope for a different future.

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 198 x 262 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781778400827