Every year on April 22nd, we celebrate Earth Day. Earth day is a global movement dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues, promoting sustainability and celebrating the beauty of our planet. Whether it’s through conservation efforts, sustainability initiatives, or community action, Earth Day brings people together to make a lasting positive impact on the Earth.

This Earth Day, we’re excited to offer a selection of authors and speakers whose books and messages align with these values. From climate change to environmental justice, these authors are available to share their knowledge, inspire change, and lead engaging events.

Let’s make this Earth Day a chance to learn, grow, and take action.

Here are a few excellent authors for young audiences:

Evan Griffith is the author of the middle-grade novels Manatee Summer and The Strange Wonders of Roots and the picture book biographies Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist and Wild at Heart: The Story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, Defenders of Nature. His books have received multiple starred reviews, been nominated to several state reading lists. He has several more books on the way, including his next nonfiction picture book Flight of the Bats: The True Story of the World’s Largest Urban Bat Colony.

G. Neri is the Michael L. Printz and Coretta Scott King award-winning author of such books as the bestselling Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and Ghetto Cowboy, which was made into the movie, Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba. His books have been translated into multiple languages in over 25 countries. They include My Antarctica, Safe Passage, The Collectors, Tru & Nelle, Grand Theft Horse, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World, Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, and Chess Rumble.

Deborah Hopkinson is the award-winning author of more than 70 books for young readers including picture books, historical fiction, and nonfiction. Deborah’s nonfiction includes Titanic, Voices from the Disaster, which received a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction honor and a Robert F. Sibert Honor, Courage & Defiance, Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in WWII Denmark, winner of the OCTE Oregon Spirit Award, and Shutting out the Sky, Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924, which received an NCTE Orbis Pictus honor.

Lindsay H. Metcalf is a journalist and award-winning author of nonfiction books for young people, including Beatrix Potter, Scientist, Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices, and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, a Kirkus and Chicago Public Library Best Book, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and NCTE Notable Poetry Book. Her latest books, No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, is a picture-book poetry anthology from the team behind No Voice Too Small (Charlesbridge, spring 2023) and Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm, illustrated by Xin Li (Astra Young Readers, spring 2024). Forthcoming titles include Tomatoes on Trial: The Fruit Vs. Vegetable Supreme Court Showdown, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham (Calkins Creek, fall 2025), No Brain the Same (2026), and Eyes to the Sky (2026).

Elizabeth Rusch is an award-winning author of over 24 books, including The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change, which received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. Rusch’s other notable works include A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer–and Beyond, praised by Kirkus, and The Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans. She has also written more than 100 articles for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Harper’s, and others. Her books have won multiple prestigious awards, including the Green Earth Award and the Oregon Book Award.