Green children’s books – an increasing number of parents are searching for them nowadays. The growing awareness of the need for an ecologically sustainable planet to bequeath to our children has fortunately permeated through to the mainstream.
Once upon a time, only a minority were urging a halt to the ever growing destruction of our natural habits.
Those of us actively involving in writing books which promoted a world view of living in harmony with the Earth were regarded as cranks.
I can vividly remember the scorn which certain people poured on me when I first started writing books for children out of my own world view of the need to live in harmony with Nature, not to rape and pillage her. (You’ll never change anything. Why bother? Only politicians have power) Even those who I thought were on the same wavelength looked upon me as someone who wrote for children because I didn’t have the brains to write for adults. (Very nice, Cara. But when are you going to write a serious book?) Yes, someone really did say that when I published my first novel for 8-12s, The Boy From the Hills, back in the 80s.
