Pedro Loves Saving the Planet - (Nature Heroes) by Jess French (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Tells the fact-filled story of day in the life of a boy who is passionate about the environment. Pedro spends the day at his school eco club's forest cabin where he learns about electric cars, plants some vegetable seeds and encourages his friends to think of creative ways to recycle. Follow Pedro as he shares his love of the environment--learn about renewable energy, discover fun ways to save water and find out what else you can do to help protect our planet"--

Book Synopsis

Pedro Loves the Planet tells the fact-filled story of day in the life of a boy who is passionate about the environment.

Pedro spends the day at his school eco club's forest cabin where he learns about electric cars, plants some vegetable seeds and encourages his friends to think of creative ways to recycle.

Follow Pedro as he shares his love of the environment - learn about renewable energy, discover fun ways to save water and find out what else you can do to help protect our planet.

With an engaging and lively narrative from Jess French and fun, warm illustrations from Duncan Beedie this book will help ignite a love and appreciation for nature, right on our doorsteps.

The Nature Heroes series focuses on a group of friends who are passionate about nature and the great outdoors. Each book features a different child who has a favourite topic that they are fascinated by: Billy Loves Birds, Bella Loves Bugs, Ava Loves Rescuing Animals and Pedro Loves the Planet!

Review Quotes

"A great way to introduce and extend children's knowledge of the joys of being outside in green places."--The Green Parent

'A winner for me as a subject leader, [with] opportunities to be used with a wide variety of age groups' --Association for Science Education

"This engaging book, full of facts, shows a day in the life of Pedro, who is passionate about saving the planet. Published as part of the Nature Heroes series, as is Ava Loves Rescuing Animals, which is by the same author and illustrator and is also out in April."--The Bookseller

About the Author

Jess French is a passionate vet, zoologist and naturalist who has been named one of Britain's top 50 conservationists by BBC Wildlife magazine. She presented her own TV series on CBeebies called Minibeast Adventure with Jess and worked on Live 'n' Deadly (CBBC), Deadly Mission Madagascar (CBBC), Springwatch (BBC) and Micro Monsters 3D (Sky). Jess has written several books for children, including the Born Free series for Orion Children's Books.

Duncan Beedie is an illustrator and animator based in Bristol. Aside from drawing copious quirky images, he collects clockwork robots, can identify pretty much any military aircraft and has a dog called Ivor.