Youth and Intergenerational Climate Justice

COPE Books for Children: Wildfires

Learn about disaster risk reduction and wildfires with this illustrated children's book from COPE. This time the COPE Squad travel to Pretoria, South Africa, to meet experts and learn all about wildfires. They put their training to good use when called to San Francisco to help with a real Wildfire.

Christine Messervy

29th Apr 2022
2 min read
90 Downloads

COPE Wildfires – Be ready to go!

Summary

The COPE squad, Candy, Ollie, Ping and Eddy are a team of disaster risk reduction agents travelling all over the world to teach children how to be ready and prepared for natural hazards and disasters. Make the difference, be ready!

Join the COPE squad on another Disaster Risk Reduction adventure. This time they will travel to Pretoria, South Africa, to meet experts and learn all about wildfires. Wildfires are likely to increase in frequency with climate change and will important to consider with adaptation. The COPE Squad has to put their training to good use when called to San Francisco to help with a real Wildfire.

This weADAPT case study is an abridged version of the original text, which can be downloaded from the right-hand column. Please access the original text for more detail, research purposes, full references, or to quote text.

The COPE Squad explains what to do after a wildfire. Image credit: Martha Keswick, Mariko Jesse, Timothy Sim.

About this book

According to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, children have a vital role in strengthening community resilience. COPE books have been developed in response to that call to empower children.

This child-friendly booklet is for kids 6-12 years old to generate drought awareness through animated characters and simple but strong messages.

COPE is a series of illustrated, not for profit storybooks created in 2018 by author Martha Keswick, award-winning illustrator Mariko Jesse and global disaster risk reduction expert Dr Timothy Sim.

Listen to this interview with COPE creator Martha Keswick to learn more about the book series, how and why it was created, and its impact.

For more information about COPE Disaster Champions contact: Christine Messervy [email protected]