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A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm

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Fourteen animals around the world are on a journey for survival when climate change displaces them to bizarre new habitats in this captivating interpretive photo illustration picture book. Based in science, the book provides young readers a fantastical interpretation of climate change and the risks that global animals would face in an imagined future. What would happen to animals around the world when climate change threatens the habitat that they know and depend on? Beautiful photomontages and brief stories about fourteen animals around the globe that become displaced due to climate change will intrigue and inform young readers in the thought-provoking Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm, a blended nonfiction and fiction photo-illustrated book from environmental artist, photographer, and author Ronnie Swire Siegel depicting a fantastical future where animals' natural environments become unlivable for them. In Displaced, each story begins with a very short description of the animal's habitat and illuminates why their current home is at risk. Readers will learn that environmental events and disasters contribute to climate change such as polar ice melting, sea level rise, floods, droughts, fires, severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, ocean acidification, and human migration. But when coupled with various human activity, it heightens it to unsustainable levels, causing major havoc in each of these habitats in different ways. Based in science but with a clear departure to a fantasy reality, author Siegel helps readers to imagine what could happen if climate change is left unchecked: extinction of a species or relocation and adaptation to a new and different environment in order to survive. There is a hopeful and positive conclusion to this book that is based in stark reality but cushioned in whimsical fantasy. Its content is intended to evoke action to lessen climate change and inform the reader about our responsibility as global citizens and good stewards of the earth and all its inhabitants. Young readers will end the book with an optimistic prediction that, with attention and action, we can work together to reverse the course of climate change to make our world enduring for all creatures. This imaginative and evocative tale is the first in a new series of blended fiction and nonfiction books for young and older readers from Siegel, bringing awareness to the global issue of climate change that we face today. The unique format of Siegel's captivating and wildly imaginative photomontages, will promote and encourage a dialogue at home and in the classroom about what climate change is and what we can do to end its disruption from the normal order of things on earth. There is a comprehensive section at the end of the book for parents, teachers, and older children, providing a summary of facts to help answer questions from children about climate change

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When the world seemed upside down during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and reality seemed displaced, author Ronnie Swire Siegel used her art and photography background to express her feelings and work on a topic dear to her heart: climate change, animals and their habitats, and the ramifications. Ronnie considers her life's work trying to connect children with nature. Her background as a landscape architect and environmental artist has enabled her to see more acutely than most the everyday effects of climate change. By superimposing images of animals from other habitats into her landscape photos from past travels and combining explanatory and fantastical text, she creates a surreal interpretation of what animals could face in a future altered by global warming in her fiction picture book Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm. As a landscape architect and global citizen, Ronnie is committed to developing and creating nature-based play and learning environments for children and has teamed with educational organizations and municipalities to reinvent traditional play spaces with a more nature-based focus for urban children. Her designs promote learning through the exploration of nature to make sure that the next generation has a love of nature so that they will become better stewards of the environment. She believes that climate change is threatening this healthy connection and without the bond to nature developed early in life, an intention to preserve it will be lost. As an environmental artist, Ronnie has recently completed an Interactive Global Art Project called Carry the EARTH. This project is intended to use shared storytelling to bridge the gaps between countries, cultures, ages, economic divides, and unite people with one common thread-- our home planet is a beautiful and fragile place-a globe we all share, along with the responsibility to protect it. It is Ronnie's hope to communicate that our many small actions, together, can bring about huge change. Her children's book Displaced is an extension of her life's work. Ronnie received a BA in Fine Arts and Natural Sciences from Colgate University, and later earned her Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania. When she isn't writing thought-provoking books for children, Ronnie enjoys exploring the world and nature, hiking, gardening, photography, multimedia artwork, and landscape design. She lives with her husband and beagle in the chaparral hills above Los Angeles. Displaced is her debut children's book.