Book review: Christophe Cassou, Weather and climate doesn’t rhyme!, Daedalus Publishing, Bari 2014,
pp. 64.
Book review: Pierre Papon, Let’s full of energy!, Dedalus Publishing, Bari 2014, pp. 64.
In what we
want to invest our future? The
correct answer is: in children, the younger generation. How? Following the
suggestion of the historian Marc Bloch, according to which we have to explain a
simple concept that starts from the question of own child and at the same time
it’s necessary to stimulate new curiosity in children.
In a society
dominated by the frenzy comes to our rescue the book series “Little Library of
Science” designed by the Daedalus Publisher that from own works reveals
altruism toward readers of all ages. The mission
of the book series, which addresses to the curious from 9 to 99 years, is to take
on scientific issues in a simple way. The authors are scientists and experts
who answer to the childlike questions able to condense profound existential and
environmental curiosity.
Only the
tenderness of a little child is able to feel the vulnerability of the planet where
we live and encourage their family to take measures that can pamper the Earth. The
two texts I’m going to review, “Weather and climate
doesn’t rhyme!” and “Let’s full of energy!”,
seem related and basically they are.
Climate and
weather are indicative of the globe health level. Current is the issue of
climate change which follows the global warming alarm. To a child is like the
Earth had a fever and should absolutely be healed. Climatologist Christophe
Cassou stands next to his young readers and guide them in the fascinating
journey of discovery of meteorological phenomena of which so much is said and
little is understood. He translates the buzzwords of technical jargon and puts
them at the level of nippers understanding.
Each book is
organized as an exciting story that tells the adventures of the characters which
discover new phenomena and find creative gimmicks to understand them.
Alongside of physics
and chemistry industrial professor Pierre Papon, we discover the treasures of
the Earth i.e. all types of energy and the different ways to produce it, store
it, use it as best but never exploit it.
The books are
close to the families in the delicate phase of the education of children and
their human and cultural formation. Isn’t a coincidence that the location of
the tale Let’s full of energy! is the
farmland, the only place in the world where you can develop an awareness of the
environment sensitivity and show gratitude for the precious elements that the
planet gives us.
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