In the kitchen - at dinner time BookBairn can sometimes find it hard to focus on eating her tea and it can be a long slog through the whole process so we listen to the Nosy Crow podcast of books that she is already very familiar with and doesn't require the pictures to follow along with the story. We listened to both What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson and Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers so many times that BookBairn learned them both by heart. Sometimes we take the book along with us too so BookBairn can turn the pages as she listens. It's great for longer journeys when you've all had enough of the same songs on repeat. In the car - we like to listen to stories in the car and often borrow audiobooks on CD from the library or play through my phone on the cars speakers. Here's some ways that audiobooks work for us:
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It's great for us because sometimes BookBairn really wants a story but I just don't have my hands free - perhaps it's the middle of cooking the tea or because we are in the middle of eating tea - but I can pop my phone on the table and press play and her favourite stories are read to her without me having to look at the pages whilst trying to do one of the 12,864 things I try to juggle at once! Thank heaven her voice will echo far and wide, and down through the years.We love listening to audiobooks! Especially ones that we have the picture books to hand so we can look at the pictures as we listen. “This is a wonderful story, wonderfully told! Vanessa Nakate is a crucial climate leader, reminding us of one of the iron laws of global warming: the less you did to cause it, the sooner and harder you get hit. At once intimate and sweeping, A Bigger Picture is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future.” - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction “Vanessa Nakate’s message couldn’t be more urgent or her voice more desperately needed. A strong spirit who will clearly not give up and only grow in strength.” - Angelina Jolie “Vanessa Nakate is a powerful global voice. Vanessa is more than an inspiration-she’s an indispensable voice for our future.” - Malala Yousafzai “Through Vanessa Nakate’s eyes, A Bigger Picture shows us the threat of climate change to people in East Africa and the relentless courage of one activist fighting to be heard. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.” - Greta Thunberg “In this moment of intersecting crises, Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. It highlighted the call Nakate has been making all along: for both environmental and social justice on behalf of those who have been omitted from the climate discussion and who are now demanding to be heard.įrom a shy little girl in Kampala to a leader on the world stage, A Bigger Picture is part rousing manifesto and part poignant memoir, and it presents a new vision for the climate movement based on resilience, sustainability, and genuine equity.
The photo featured the four other activists, who were all white. In January 2020, while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of five international delegates, including Thunberg, Nakate’s image was cropped out of a photo by the Associated Press. Nakate’s presence highlights and reveals rampant inequalities within the climate justice movement. Inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, in 2019 Nakate became Uganda’s first Fridays for Future protestor, awakening to her personal power and summoning within herself a commanding political voice. At the same time, she sees that activists from African nations and the global south are not being heard in the same way as activists from white nations are heard. In A Bigger Picture, her first book, she shares her story as a young Ugandan woman who sees that her community bears disproportionate consequences to the climate crisis. Leading climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fierce, fearless spirit, new perspective, and superstar bona fides to the biggest issue of our time. A leading voice in the global climate movement delivers a powerful manifesto and moving memoir about climate justice and how we can-and must-build a livable and inclusive future for all.
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