There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom

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Oh Rang-tan in my bedroom now I do know what to do. I’ll fight to save your home and I’ll stop you feeling blue. Find out about sustainably grown palm oil. What symbols tell you that the palm oil in a product has been grown sustainably? The orangutan is not the only animal at risk from palm oil production. Research some others and make a poster to tell people about them.

Read the forward for this book by Emma Thompson. Could you write your own foreword for a different book?

There’s a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom is a beautiful book which highlights an important message to young children in an easy and accessible way. My children have asked to read this book repeatedly since it arrived I would recommend it for every young child. The positives and negatives of farming palm oil, including deforestation which is referred to in the poem. Today in our lesson we have been exploring the poem 'There's a Rang-Tan in my bedroom', which was created by Greenpeace, an environmental charity which focuses on protecting the natural world. Design a poster to inform people about palm oil and the effects its farming has on the environment. Published in collaboration with Greenpeace, featuring a foreword from Dame Emma Thompson and brought to life by award-winning illustrator Frann Preston-Gannon, this is a very special picture book with a vital message to share.

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My Littles really enjoy chatting about and discussing how we can treat our planet 🌍 better so I was excited to be asked to review this one with them as I knew they’d be keen on it. Greenpeace’s new film, Monster, tells the story of a boy’s friendship with a mysterious jaguar he finds in his kitchen. When a little girl discovers a mischievous orangutan on the loose in her bedroom, she can’t understand why it keeps shouting OOO! at her shampoo and her chocolate. But when Rang-tan explains that there are humans running wild in her rainforest, burning down trees so they can grow palm oil to put in products, the little girl knows what she has to do: help save the orangutans! Catherine Doyle on new book The Lost Tide Warriors, a children's adventure full of Irish myth and magic