Description: "Will you help me?" Isidora and Julian, playing in the Chilean ocean, hear a plaintive cry -- a sea lion is tangled in an abandoned fishing net. They free their ocean friend then wonder what to do with the net. With the help of a bird, they recycle it into something useful again, something better than new. This inspiring story educates children about the dangers of ocean pollution, then shows what they can do to help heal the earth.
Brief description: Lake Buckley is a Californian director, creative director and illustrator based in New York City. Her relationship with Patagonia began in 2013 when she received an environmental grant to bike cross country researching female owned farms. Since then, she has been grateful to have Patagonia as a client in addition to Google, MIT, Nest, Instagram, YouTube, TEDx, SAP, Walmart, Bureo, and MTV. Her work has been a Vimeo Staff Pick, has won a Gold SPD award, and has been featured in Nowness, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, and in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Norway. She taught at Rhode Island School of Design and spoke at Princeton's annual design conference. Her work is stylistically versatile, always aiming to find the most effective visual expression for an idea.
Review Quotes: An enlightening call to action! This book would make a great addition to a unit about the impact human's have on the environment as well as their responsibility to recycle and make amends for the negative impact. An added bonus is that the whole book is set in Chile and therefore features bilingual text. This highlights the global importance of the themes of recycling and functions as an inclusive reading experience for Spanish-speaking students. Overall, this is a great story and a versatile book for teaching. -- Net Galley review