Will I love No World Too Big?

As a lifelong biography reader and sometime biography writer, I planned to recommend one of the many fine children’s works about Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The teen’s brave protests have sparked an international movement demanding climate action for the sake of today’s and tomorrow’s children.

But this book is even better. Greta’s story launches this collective biography (“Bravely alone, she stood on the Parliament steps of stone. . . But she wasn’t alone for long”), inspiring young people around the world. Fifteen profiled boys and girls are planting trees, collecting compost, raising funds, and packing buses for demonstrations to reduce… show more.