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Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet gives children climate vocabulary
This is a picture book full of make-believe stories about our warming planet.
A writer named Rajat Chaudhuri made it so kids can understand big climate changes.
The book has three stories, and each one has a kid as the main character.
In the first story, a girl named Tina lives in a town where some people have electricity and others do not.
She finds a village that gets power from the sun, where everyone shares the energy.
In the second story, a boy named Gogol can feel when nature is hurt, like when a forest is being cut down.
In the third story, the oceans have dried up because people tried to fix the weather with untested inventions.
Each story ends with learning notes that explain the real world behind the tale.
The writer wants children to have words for their worries about the planet.
The book hopes readers will feel hopeful and want to help the Earth.
"Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet" is a children's illustrated climate fiction collection by Rajat Chaudhuri, illustrated by Isha Nagar and published by Perky Parrot/Niyogi Books.
The book contains three stories, each with a child at its centre inside a world being remade by climate change.
"Tina and the Light of the World" follows a girl in a town with blackouts who discovers a solar-powered community where energy is a shared resource, not a privilege.
"The Seventh Sense" centres on Gogol, a neurodivergent boy whose extra sense attuned to ecological shifts lets him feel deforestation and habitat loss.
"How Did the Oceans Vanish?" depicts seas dried up by poorly tested geoengineering interventions, warning about the danger of engineering our way out of the climate crisis.
- Who
- Author Rajat Chaudhuri, illustrator Isha Nagar, and reviewer Sayantani Sengupta, an Assistant Professor at Bhawanipur Global Campus.
- What
- The publication of "Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet," a children's book of three climate fiction stories aimed at giving young readers a vocabulary for climate anxiety.
- Where
- Not explicitly stated; the book's stories are set in fictional landscapes with metaphorical names, and the reviewer is based at Bhawanipur Global Campus.
- When
- Not specified in the article.
- Why
- To help children name and understand feelings such as anxiety about warming summers, disappearing forests and unequal access to power, building emotional literacy about the climate crisis.
Key facts
- Book
- Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet
- Author
- Rajat Chaudhuri
- Illustrator
- Isha Nagar
- Publisher
- Perky Parrot/Niyogi Books
- Stories
- "Tina and the Light of the World," "The Seventh Sense," "How Did the Oceans Vanish?"
- Page count
- Slightly more than 100 pages
- Themes
- Renewable energy and control of it, ecological empathy and neurodivergence, geoengineering risks
- Special features
- Black-and-white illustrations, maps of fictional landscapes, learning notes after each story, and an author's letter to readers
Quotes
Rajat Chaudhuri
author of Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet
““Let these stories about a warming planet be your friend and companion. Take from them, listen to their messages and use what you learn in your life. Through stories and climate action, you will one day bring back the seasons and the planet will be cooler.””
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Story narrator
Narrative voice within the book’s story ‘The Seventh Sense’
““The people of the forest call it the seventh sense. To feel at one with the forest and live in harmony with the mind‑boggling variety of life.””
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