5 must-read environment books like The Biggest Footprint by Rob Sears

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The Biggest Footprint

By: Rob Sears

4.66

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE AND CONSERVATION WRITING FOR CHILDREN 2022 Meet the mega …

If you liked the environment plot in The Biggest Footprint by Rob Sears , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-yea… read more

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"I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"iI you are a reader you are already half-way to being a writer -for you have a love of words and a pleasure from seeing them on a page."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"I stay, kneeling on the hearthstone, till the clock on the table strikes four with its silvery little chime and I realise that I have been in a trance of prayer for hours. I have prayed and I believe…"

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

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2. Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

2.86

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of th… read more

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3. The Day the Crayons Quit

By: Oliver Jeffers , Drew Daywalt

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all s… read more

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  • picture books

4. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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5. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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6. The Mother

By: T.M. Logan

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more

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7. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

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8. De jongen die van de wereld hield

By: Tjibbe Veldkamp

4.02

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

Adem is een ‘mogelijk kind’. Op het moment dat zijn ouders elkaar ontmoeten in een oude Oost-Europe… read more

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9. De flat aan het einde van de wereld

By: Arndís Þórarinsdóttir

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Björk is door het dolle heen als ze voor het eerst haar oma gaat ontmoeten. Oma Verweg, zoals ze ge… read more

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10. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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12. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
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13. Poster Girl

By: Veronica Roth

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For… read more

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"Trades rely on trust, the belief that if you give what you agree to give, you will receive what is promised."

-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

"If your every choice is in defiance of a system, you are as much a servant of that system as someone who obeys it."

-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

"It is the symptom of a disease that still infects our population--the desire to make everything easy, to sacrifice autonomy and privacy for convenience. That's what technology is, Ms. Kantor. A conce…"

-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

"Just because you're not committing a crime now, by going where you go, by seeing who you see, doesn't mean that another government, another set of people with another set of priorities, won't come al…"

-Veronica Roth, Poster Girl

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14. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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15. Films die nergens draaien

By: Yorick Goldewijk

4.45

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Op dezelfde dag dat Cato ter wereld kwam, heeft haar moeder die verlaten. Cato's vader is sindsdien… read more

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"Dat ze iemand blij kon maken met zoiets als een glas limonade bracht haar een gevoel van heel simpel geluk. Het soort geluk dat nergens van afhing, dat er gewoon altijd wel was en je af en toe terloo…"

-Yorick Goldewijk, Films die nergens draaien

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16. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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17. What You Need to Be Warm

By: Neil Gaiman

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
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18. The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall

By: Ali Standish

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children… read more

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19. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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20. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2)

By: Hannah Gold

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unmissable follow-up to the award-winning  The Last Bear— perfect for fans of Rosanne Parry and… read more

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22. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

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23. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

By: Héctor García

3.72

Format: 208 pages, None

None read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Foxlight

By: Katya Balen

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of October, October , winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and … read more

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25. De restjes van de zon

By: Edward van de Vendel

4.39

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Het bos is al dagenlang donker, en het regent de hele tijd. De dieren zitten moedeloos en mopperend… read more

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26. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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27. Refugee 87

By: Ele Fountain

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A young refugee embarks on a dangerous journey in this timeless and award-winning novel of survival… read more

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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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29. Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home

By: Amanda Thomson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Biggest Footprint

By: Rob Sears

4.66

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE AND CONSERVATION WRITING FOR CHILDREN 2022 Meet the mega … read more

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4.13

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