Eight books for readers aged 6 to 16 to talk about death, climate change or consumerism

Literature is an extraordinary tool to bring children and adolescents closer to complex topics that are not always easy to deal with, such as illness and death, as well as to open conversations about these issues.

Also to address social realities that are an increasingly frequent concern - such as consumerism and its consequences, climate change or the need to preserve the environment - or with which, sometimes, because they are distant and foreign, it is difficult to empathize and even understand in all its dimensions—such as wars or the drama of refugees.

Below we propose a selection of new children's and youth literature to open the door to family conversations about all these issues, but also other books with which to get to know unjustly forgotten historical figures, as well as titles with which, simply, have a good time. reading time accompanying its protagonists in the most unlikely adventures.

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