Featuring 331 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXVIII, NO. 7 | 1 APRIL 2020 REVIEWS The Earth Issue Conversations with Hope Jahren, Michael Christie, Anuradha Rao, and more from the editor’s desk: Chairman Writing To Save the Planet HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher BY TOM BEER MARC WINKELMAN # Chief Executive Officer MEG LABORDE KUEHN
[email protected] Photo courtesy John Paraskevas courtesy Photo Few world figures in recent years have been as inspiring as Greta Thun- Editor-in-Chief TOM BEER berg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist who is the face of today’s environmental
[email protected] Vice President of Marketing movement. Her example led tens of thousands of students across Europe to SARAH KALINA skip school on Fridays to protest government inaction on climate change and
[email protected] Managing/Nonfiction Editor still more young people and adults to march in the streets of the world’s cit- ERIC LIEBETRAU
[email protected] ies. She has addressed the United Nations. She was nominated for the Nobel Fiction Editor LAURIE MUCHNICK Peace Prize. In December, she was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
[email protected] Children’s Editor Sixteen of Thunberg’s remarkable speeches were recently collected in No VICKY SMITH
[email protected] One Is Too Small To Make a Difference (2019). In a starred review, Kirkus called Young Adult Editor Tom Beer it “a tiny book, not much bigger than a pamphlet, with huge potential impact.” LAURA SIMEON
[email protected] It’s just one of the dozens of outstanding titles about climate change and the environment that cross Editor at Large MEGAN LABRISE our desks here at Kirkus.