It’s Your World, An Inspirational New Kids’ Book by Chelsea Clinton

Growing up, Clinton was inspired by the book 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, which helped children make the move from passive observers to active helpers in the effort to clean up and protect our planet. As a kid in Washington, D.C., she decided to make an impact in her community by leading her school’s service club. In college, she worked as a reading and writing tutor and volunteered at a children’s hospital. Now she’s the vice chair of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and a first-time author.
Here are four reasons It’s Your World is a must-read for the kids in your life.
Knowledge is power
Clinton’s book does an outstanding job of presenting, in an accessible way, the biggest challenges we face today as a global community. Combining facts, charts, photographs, and stories, It’s Your World gives its audience a deep understanding of the issues on an age-appropriate level, which in turn gives them a real sense of ownership and responsibility for what’s going on in our world.

Kids are passionate and dedicated to their causes
I recently overheard a 13-year-old girl talking to her dad about a boy, saying, “If he’s not a feminist, then I don’t like him as much as I thought I did.” Kids are enthusiastic, energetic, and excitable, and they aren’t yet apathetic and jaded into thinking one person can’t make a difference. It’s Your World picks up on this optimistic energy. It reinforces kids’ conviction that every single person counts, and that this world belongs to every single one of us.
Big challenges, simple actions
AsDr. Seuss stated so eloquently, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better—it’s not.” And kids care. Not only does the book arm them with plenty of information, it also offers suggestions for how to effect change in the arenas of poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, access to education, gender equality, epidemics, non-communicable diseases, climate change, and endangered species—whew!
It’s inspiring to adults, too
Kids’ enthusiasm is contagious. Clinton writes in a letter to readers, “When I was in elementary school, I cut up those plastic rings you’d find around six packs of soda, glued them to brightly-colored construction paper (purple was my favorite), and handed them out to my parents, grandparents and grandparents’ friends in a one-girl campaign to raise awareness about the dangers that plastic six-pack rings posed to marine wildlife around the world.” I also took on a six-pack-ring-clipping crusade in fifth grade—thanks to 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth—but wasn’t nearly as tactful as Clinton. (I may have made poster boards covered in sayings like, “You’re killing baby sea turtles!” with dripping red paint to replicate blood. May have.) It’s Your World is meant to inspire that same sense of activism (minus the red paint, probably) and will hopefully inspire the grown-ups in these kids’ lives, too.
Are you excited to read Chelsea Clinton’s book?