The Best Children’s Book About Climate Change Was Written 40 Years Ago

Like many good children’s books, Cloudy With Meatballs tackles adult anxieties

Whet Moser

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Reading to my children, sometimes, turns into an excavation of adult anxieties. Sometimes this is intentional on the part of the author, and it’s thrilling to go back and see how I came to adopt the anxieties.

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Whet Moser

Freelance writer/editor in Chicago. Words in Marker, The Atlantic, COVID Tracking Project, elsewhere. Author of ‘Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis.’