Her other children's books include Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fight back) and What's for Lunch? How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World (both from Red Deer Press). Her most recent works are the informational picture books City of Neighbors, City Streets are for People, A Forest in the City and City of Water (the ThinkCities series from Groundwood) and the picture book Barnaby (Owlkids). Andrea's first YA novel is Big Water (Orca), inspired by the true story of a Georgian Bay shipwreck. 6.6 Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people. 5.3 Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
Key Text Features diagrams facts further information further reading glossary historical context illustrations labels resources references Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: .4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
It highlights the challenges and risks cities face, but also offers hope for building resilience, sustainability and quality of life as young people advocate for themselves and their communities. The ThinkCities series is inspired by the urgency for new approaches to city life as a result of climate change, population growth and increased density. Includes a list of ideas for children to promote green transportation in their communities, along with a glossary and sources for further reading. It invites us to conjure up a city of the future, where these modes are all used together to create a place that is sustainable, healthy, accessible and safe. Imagine a city where streets are for people! This fun, accessible and ultimately hopeful book explores sustainable transportation around the globe, including electric vehicles, public transit, bicycles, walking and more. Congested city streets are noisy and thick with cars and trucks, while pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed to the dangerous edges-but does it have to be this way? Imagine a city where we aren't stuck in cars, where clean air makes it easier to breathe, and where transit is easy to access-and on time.
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