Our only home: 19 books for children (and adults) to read on World Earth Day, April 22

On February 14, 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took an iconic photo of Earth. It was speeding out of the Solar System, beyond Neptune and about 6 billion kilometers from the Sun, when it turned back to look at and click a photo of its home for a final time. This photo would come to be known as the Pale Blue Dot, and astronomer Carl Sagan would go on to famously write:

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand…To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

For this Earth Day, here are some heartwarming and eye-opening stories of the lives that make our home what it is.

Lady Tarzan: Jamuna Takes a Stand, Lavanya Karthik, illustrated by Rajiv Eipe

Jamuna grows up thinking of trees as family, as her brothers and sisters. So what does a good sister do when the lives of her siblings are in danger? Become Lady...

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