This text has been awarded the Green Earth Book Award for its comprehensive insight into the impacts of noise pollution on the natural environment. This text aligns with the grade four and seven Science curricula, helping students learn about how animals sense and respond in their ecosystems and how they evolve over time to ensure their survival. Students will discover how noise from human activity is negatively affecting the evolution of species to survive and adapt by interrupting important lines of communication between animals. Author Stephen Aitken provides clear and accessible information to prompt students to think critically about noise pollution in their own lives, how it affects their daily activities, and possible solutions to clear the airways. Students can take learning outdoors to listen to their surroundings, compare how many sounds they hear from the natural world as opposed to sounds made by human activity, and then examine the results.

Other End Matter: Glossary, further print and online resource suggestions
Images: Colour photographs
Bibliography: No
Index: Yes

Source: Books BC - BC Books for Schools

Stephen Aitken is a biologist, artist and author. Despite an early brush with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), he became fascinated with bioluminescence while researching a book he wrote on the dangers of light pollution. He has written and illustrated many picture books, chapter books and close to a dozen nonfiction books for middle-grade readers, and he is the author of Saving the Night and Listen Up! in the Orca Footprints series. Stephen is the cofounder and executive secretary of Biodiversity Conservancy International and is the editorial director of the science journal Biodiversity.

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• Short-listed, The Nature Generation Green Earth Book Award
• Commended, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection

“Highly recommended for elementary school libraries as a way to learn about natural sounds and make connections to academic subjects like science and music.”

Children's Literature

“Engages readers by bringing together a series of interesting facts and ideas related to animal hearing…An intriguing addition to the Orca Footprints series.”

Booklist

“An eye-opening book that will assist children in understanding the complexities of the natural world and the part they have to play in it.”

Canadian Children's Book News