'Considering the crucial role they play in providing key ecosystem goods and services to the planet and their vulnerability in the face of climate change, we need to step up and raise attention to mountains.'
To raise attention of anything, I turn to books and in particular picture books so here I want to highlight two, an old one and a new one.
• Mountain Dance by Thomas Locker (2001) This poetic text is accompanied by intense oil paintings that reveal geological details from the base to the tip of mountains. It is accompanied by Water Dance and Cloud Dance but stands alone as a testament to the beauty of mountains. We turned these books into a dance performance for a K -2 school concert. It was stunning.• Mountains of the World by Dieter Braun (2018) This is a beautifully detailed and illustrated collection of the mountains of the world, part of the new range from Flying Eye Books.
If you haven't access to these two books in your library, of course there are others which will help children be enthralled by mountains. These two will help:• How Mountains are Made by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• Mountains by Seymour Simon
If you want to be more specific, these two books allow students to 'feel' the Himalayas:
• The Top of the World Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins
• Our Village in the Sky by Janeen Brian and Anne Spudvilas
And for two new stories with magnificent illustrations• Up the Mountain by Marianne Dubuc
• Secrets of the Mountain by Libby Walden and Richard Jones
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