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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Ahead of Earth Day, a new Canadian kids book tackles climate anxiety—with a dose of Jewish soul
Description: An orphaned polar bear named Steve with not enough fish to eat meets a lonely electric vehicle named Eve who ran away to the North Pole to escape being bullied by gas-guzzling cars. That’s the plot of a new graphic novel for young readers by award-winning B.C. authors Paul Shore and Deborah Katz Henriquez.
Launched at a book reading in March 2023, Steve and Eve Save the Planet: I Can Hear Your Heart Beep is the first offering in what the creators promise will be a series of books that tackle climate change.
Shore, a trained engineer, and Ka...