Captain Polo and Climate Change with Alan Hesse #68
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English - February 10, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBooks Arts Fiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Alan Hesse creates a unique children’s book series that deals with Climate Change Education. We talk about his current books and future releases and his creation process. We also dive into a really good conversation on conservation and climate change. If you happen to work in a library or school, I think you should take a look at putting these books on your shelves.
About Alan Hesse
Based in biodiversity-rich Ecuador, Alan wears several hats: he is an author-illustrator, an educator and a conservation biologist. Alan's work is inspired by the majesty and fragility of nature and the need to do everything we can to protect it.
Alan combines his artistic creativity with his technical experience and knowledge to create scientifically accurate, educational children's books full of quirky, comic humour and fun action, and usually bearing a message about how everyone can help preserve Nature.
Alan's particular focus on using cartoons for education about pressing global environmental issues is well summed up in this interview with the Association for Science Education: https://www.ase.org.uk/news/meeting-millgate-house-authors-alan-hesse-and-polo-polar-bear-explorer.
Because he combines non-fiction with fiction, Alan's creative process involves multiple steps that all need careful planning, right from researching the technical content of his books to creating the storyline, the original artwork, characters, and dialogues to designing the final books.
Alan is the author of five educational comic books for middle grade children, among which his main ongoing focus is the Captain Polo series about climate change. All five books have received 5-star reviews from Readers Favorite.
Alan is also the author of 2 climate change-themed picture books and one Christmas activity book for children within the 6-8 age range.
Check it all out as well as Alan's extensive cartoon portfolio on AJH Education Comics and Cartoons: