Aura in the sky

Author and illustrator: Toesie, Rene

ISBN: 978-0-620-95371-9 (print)

The story is about a little girl named Aura, who asked the sky, called “Mr Sky” what he is made of as he has so many beautiful colours. Mr Sky offered her a tour of the atmosphere.  He takes her to the five different layers of the atmosphere and explain their function.

In chapter two, Aura learns about pollution, what it is, where it comes from.  The books explain stationery sources of air pollution and natural sources of air pollution. It further explains how pollution impact on humans and nature.

In the third chapter, Mr Sky introduces Aura to King Ozone who explain how pollution damages the ozone layer and leads to global warming and climate change. King Ozone enlightens Aura on how humans must change their ways fords the Earth to heal.

The books are easy to read and very interesting. All the chapters contain a page with “Important words” and the terms are explained in one-line sentences

The book is printed on high quality glossy paper and the words are printed in bold in an easy to read font.  The hand drawn pictures are colourful and further explain the subject.

The book also has a table of contents and each chapter has activities: find the words and two practical activities.

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René Toesie hails from Grassy Park in the Western Cape of South Africa. She is a qualified Civil and Environmental Engineer who has over 21 years of experience in the private and government infrastructure sectors. Her focus areas are promoting community awareness of the built and natural environments and she is passionate about citizen science. She made a decision to combine her formal training with her love for drawing and writing stories to develop books.

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