Children are being inundated with messages about the environment these days, and often, the ideas that are being conveyed with a negative tinge to them. They're hearing, if you don't make the necessary changes, the world as we know it is doomed to be a barren wasteland. Okay, so it's usually put more delicately than that, but the concept is undeniably true.

Children are prone to worry because they don't have the life experience to process what they're hearing rationally. In other words, they have a tendency to believe what they hear. So, when they're hearing that the world's situation is dire, they take it to heart without question.

While we can all agree that efforts to maintain and improve our global environment are necessary, it's also important to recognize current efforts and the progress we've made. Sharing the the positive news about what the global community is doing to help keep our oceans blue and land fruitful and lush is just as valuable for our children as what we can further do the make a difference.

Elin Kelsey's book, Not Your Typical Book About the Environment, is about sharing the positive efforts to improve the environment that are taking place globally. It gives them some peace of mind that with everyone's help, both now and in the future, things can and are changing. We have more technological and innovative resources and minds working on finding solutions to be more ecologically responsible now than ever before, and people are taking action.

Children can be very black and white about everything. Giving them good news that helps them to feel that they don't have to shoulder the wait of the world on their own is important and even motivating. Sharing what others are doing to make the environment a happier, healthier place may spark their interest or give them more ideas of how they can help in their own ways without feeling like they have to do the work all by themselves.