I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. A beautiful city trying to be as green as possible.

Our Green City is a great book for children exploring topics around climate change and the environment for the first time. Concepts are simply described in a way that can be easily understood by younger readers and each page has engaging illustrations with just the right amount of information. A definite purchase!

In this colorful, nature filled book you will find descriptions of climate crises around the world alongside profiles of the incredible, youth activists you are on the frontlines of climate action. All around the world young people are fighting pollution, deforestation, animal extinction, food waste and more. Each young person highlighted in this inspiring book has chosen an issue that feels deeply personal to them and instead of meeting it with despair or exasperation they channeled their creativity into solving the problem for their community and our global village. The young folks in your life will feel empowered by this and perhaps us grown-ups can be encouraged to set down a bit of our social justice overwhelm and meet the big problems with the creativity of a child.

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For Earth Day, I chose a picture book that displays a variety of ways we can help our planet and be more sustainable. In Our Green City, it shows several sources of renewable energy, electric cars and quite a few bikes, and many vegetable gardens, among other things.
What I like best, though, is the sense of community that is apparent on every page. The illustrations show kids playing together, neighbours barbecuing side by side, and a community helping each other every day.
This book is almost a combination between a non-fiction book and a wimmelbuch where you search for interesting details in the pictures, and there are many of them, bunnies hiding in their burrow and a dog trying to sing along with the musicians. Some question prompts also inspire a rewarding investigation, like 'a worker lost his hammer, can you see it anywhere?'
At the final page, it shows some more ways for kids to be green and take care of the environment. All in all, this picture book is such a lovely way to have fun while talking about important topics like sustainability and community!

Thanks to Netgalley and Kids Can Press for the ARC of this!

I read it with my 5 year old and he loved finding all the little critters and plants in each page. The art style was really nice, and there were few words. It was nice to see many different kinds of people, animals and ways to be green.

I loved the colourful illustrations in this book. This is definitely a good book to introduce kids to different kinds of green living as it keeps the concepts simple. It also shows how green living can foster a sense of community. Having the community come together to better their environment, and grow food in their garden.

Love this picture book! The illustrations are a wonderful treat. The text is engaging and there are even objects to look for within the pages. I would love to purchase this book for our elementary school library!

A child-friendly tour around a green city. It touches on a variety of "green" ideas - transportation, food, and water. The illustrations are so detailed that you could spend many minutes on one page. Questions throughout would elicit great discussion! Will definitely be adding to our library shelves!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read in exchange for an honest review.

I adore everything in this book! The illustrations are colorful and contain so many hidden treasures. The text shares different ways everyone can contribute to having a green community. There are so many things to look at - a great way to help build vocabulary and open up discussions about being green and incorporating sustainable practices into daily life.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a really lovely book. It will teach kids about how to live a more eco-friendly life and the pictures are beautiful..

This picture book is perfect for Earth day! With so many detailed pictures and short, relatively simple sentences, ideas like solar power and eco-friendly options can be easily understood by young readers. As a Grade 3 teacher I would definitely consider purchasing a copy for my class library. I also think it would be great for lessons around sustainability and earth day. I would definitely recommend this book for teachers and families of children ages 4-10 who are interested in the environment and making green choices! Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book!

This is a children’s educational book about the elements of building and maintaining a green city. It teaches our children ways to make our ecosystem healthier for all living things. Each page is packed with colorful engaging illustrations. The sing-song kid-prose was interactive and asked the child to find various things in the pictures. I felt like I was playing “Where’s Waldo.” I think that the young readers will absolutely love it!

As I see it, the book encourages the children to imagine their active participation in such a city. Many of the tasks mentioned in this book could be easily adapted to a learning biology module in an elementary classroom.

I want to thank the Author Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Illustrator Colleen Larmour, Kids Can Press Publishing, and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this Advanced Reader’s Copy. This is a voluntary review, and all comments and opinions are entirely my own.

A great colourful book, about keeping the city green and sustainable. It was bright and busy, to keep the reader engaged as well as spreading a educational story.

City dweller are shown going about their business and each page is packed with various ways to transform a concrete jungle into a green one. The illustrations are exuberant and can be felt off the page. The text is simple with plenty of pauses to examine a scene, making it a good sharable. I love the vision in this book and will be purchasing a copy for my library.

Such a lovely, cute book. I loved the illustrations and the colors deliberately used all over the pages. The author uses an interactive style of writing, asking the readers to look for specific things, building their interest. The life imagined in the story is quite promising and will be appealing to children. A much need book for children in today's world.

This brightly illustrated book and friendly text highlights the many features of green living, not only ideas like collecting rainwater or planting gardens or trees, but also living together in a community. Readers are encouraged to carefully examine the illustrations and think about questions. More back matter could have been included, but the overall impact of the book is positive. This looks like a great city to live in!

Gorgeous illustrations as we walk through a day in the life of a greener, more sustainable city. Filled with ideas to live more sustainably and have fun doing it, this will make a fun way to discuss ideas about living in cooperation with the environment with kids. There's not much of a narrative, but lots of ideas and beautiful imaginings of what these spaces could look like.

Thank you, Kids Can Press, for the advance reading copy.

It's such a good picture book which shows a community with lots of activities going on around making their environment a real green one. An encouraging read for all, the young readers and for the adults reading to them.

The illustrations are amazing and so well done.

Let's make our environment more green and more natural!

Thank you to the publisher, author, illustrator, and NG for a copy of this book in exchange for honest feedback. Right off the bat, I think that the cover & title are enticing. I love the drawing/illustration style on the cover and inside contents. So, this book appears to be about "being green" and the environment. The story is about both the community and the home. There is a range of characters in the book and various representation of people. The content is general, good for a young reader. Some of my more critical feedback involves stylistic things. It is hard to read some of the font on pages, in particular those on the light green and white spaces. I'm not sure if that is just due to the proofing stage, but the font almost entirely blends in to the background. The end of the book includes some green-living tips/info which are age appropriate. All in all, a decent book that meets a certain theme.