What the World Needs Now
by Cheryl Rosebush
What the World Needs Now is an environmental children’s book series for ages 4-8 that aims to connect the world’s youngest book lovers to the importance of nature, and our place in it. Each book in the series follows a friendly animal through its habitat, helping kids learn about one thing the world needs now, be it more trees or bees or less plastic, to maintain a healthy planet.
The series is designed to help parents and educators lay the foundation for future learning on the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. But for our littlest kids, the connection starts at a much simpler point: their first job is to fall in love with nature - because you don’t protect what you don’t love.
The books support engaging with our kids on how we can better respect and care for the only planet we have.
Available for purchase on: YPDBooks.com
Released November 2020
Released February 2021
Released July 2021
HOW IT ALL STARTED
After more than a decade of communicating on climate change to governments and the private sector, I felt it was time to add a new audience to my repertoire. And being a Mom to two curious young boys has given me daily practice in explaining my work and why it’s important.
The video below introduces all my “whys” for wanting to create an environmental children’s book series, and highlights what my books aim to do. I look forward to sharing this journey with you every step of the way!
After the shock wore off of receiving Dr. Jane Goodall’s endorsement, it was a last-minute scramble to get her amazing review onto the front and back covers right before our print deadline! And we did it. You can order all three books in the series on YPDBooks.com.
“What a wonderful way to introduce children to the buzzing world of bees.”
— Gill Perkins, CEO Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Expert endorsements for Book 3 in the series, “What the World Needs Now: Less Plastic!”.
Doug Allan is a veteran wildlife cameraman and Marine Conservation Society Ambassador, who has won 4 Emmy and 5 BAFTA awards for his footage taken for legendary BBC, Discovery and National Geographic documentaries including The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants and Forces of Nature.
In addition to her amazing City to Sea organization, Natalie Fée has a touching TED Talk I encourage you to check out: Why Plastic Pollution is Personal.
When was the last time you bought a book that offset its own carbon emissions and preserved critically threatened rainforests? We are proud to say that all of the books in the What the World Needs Now series adhere to the highest standards of eco-printing, using:
100% recycled paper
Biodegradable lamination
Vegetable-based inks
Carbon-balanced printing
Read more in the blog from our amazing UK printer, Dynamic Impressions, about the eco-printing process and materials we use.
HELLO JEFRI
Meet Jefri! He’s the adorable main character in the first book of my series called What the World Needs Now: Trees!. He was created by my talented illustrator Zuzana Svobodova. For me, it was love at first sight!
I knew I wanted my first book in the series to be about trees, and after my World Bank mission to Sumatra in 2019, I knew I wanted my main character to be an orangutan. They literally have everything to lose by tropical forest loss. And since they share so similarities to humans, I thought an orangutan would be the perfect animal to underscore the ways in which we are all connected to trees.
Watch this amazing video to see Jefri come to life!
Introducing Luna the lantern fly!
She is Jefri’s adorable sidekick in my first book "What the World Needs Now: Trees!”.
Look closely… she will be hidden on every page.
“Only if we understand, can we care.
Only if we care, will we help.”
- JANE GOODALL
CONSULTANCY
Collaborating with the world’s foremost experts on climate change & sustainable development, I develop influential communication pieces that break through the noise and affect change.