I assume there is no mention of any wildlife that benefits from climate change. There are lots of things that do better in a warmer climate. 2016 was “the hottest year eva!”. It was also the year with the highest crop production eva! But one never hears anything of this kind of good news in the MSM. Penguin was approached in spring last year and the publisher was enthusiastic. After the prince and his co-authors produced their first draft, Penguin turned to David Warrilow, chairman of the climate science special interest group at the Royal Meteorological Society, and a team of seven other climate specialists to go through the 5,000-word manuscript before publication. She said: “The book of the wedding of Charles and Diana was a triumph of planning and organisation and something completely new for Ladybird. This is a Ladybird book – it’s not overloaded with words. If you have a long commute into work you could polish it off on one day with no problem at all. It’s a slim volume, nicely illustrated and written with admirable clarity. Any quoted International postage is for parcels up to 500gm weight. Extra may apply for parcels over this weight.

A Ladybird Book: Climate Change - The Prince Of Wales, HRH

The special edition Ladybird book was a must have for school children and royal fans up and down the country. The other thing I’m an expert in is sex,’ Jones continues, ‘and I thought I’d like to write the Ladybird book of sex. It would be the least erotic book ever written. It would be about inbreeding and the differences between males and females – I touch on it a bit in the evolution book – but the publishers said no. It was a Ladybird book too far for them. Repeatedly, our research at Climate Outreach has pointed to the importance of authenticity in campaign messaging: although climate change really does pose catastrophic risks, screaming about climate catastrophe is not necessarily a good strategy if the people on the receiving end don’t see the same risks. Although in many ways undeserved, there are also lots of negative stereotypes around ‘typical’ climate activists, and the ‘doom and gloom’ that characterised many early climate campaigns.

Ladybird books, however, did not feature in Steve Jones’s childhood in Aberystwyth. ‘I was a Welsh speaker and couldn’t really read English, and I was also a complete nerd. Mostly I read books about geology.’ The illustrations by Ruth Palmer deserve a special mention – they are attractive and very evocative of those of the original Ladybird books. Charles penned a personal afterword for the publication, A Ladybird Book: Climate Change, written last summer when he was still the Prince of Wales. A recent Ladybird book on climate change achieved something few books on climate change do: it got read (or at least bought) by large numbers of people. Our shops at Laura and Burra are now closed. We are always happy to provide any required images/ information of any listed book.

A Ladybird Book: Climate Change : The Prince of Wales, HRH

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ We have a US president who has said that ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real. ‘One would hope that a copy [of Climate Change] will find its way into the Oval Office and that President Trump might be able to review his views,’ says Juniper. Earth's climate has changed a number of times in the past due to natural changes in the Earth's environment. But the change in climate occurring at the present time is not natural. It is a result of the actions of people and it is happening at a very fast rate. The constitutional monarch, who must remain politically neutral, wrote of how he admired children across the world for “raising the alarm and calling for big changed to happen.”

His Royal Highness, Emily and I had to work very hard to make sure that each word did its job, while at the same time working with the pictures to deliver the points we needed to make. I hope we’ve managed to paint a vivid picture, and like those iconic titles from the 60s and 70s, created a title that will stand the test of time,” Juniper told the Mail on Sunday. We humans may be hopeless at acting in our long-term interests over climate change, but our ingenuity can be boundless when desperate. Take HMP Channings Wood, in Devon, where staff have reportedly had to ban sugar and fruit used by inmates to brew homemade booze after smoking was banned. Jim Al-Khalili, who wrote the guide to quantum mechanics, is a physicist, writer and broadcaster and has a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics. Tony Juniper, a campaigner and environmentalist, is a fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.