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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 23 april 2018
Julian Lennon’s environmental books hope to ‘empower’ kids

By MARK KENNEDY heal the Earth,” the book there was a lot of back and
AP Entertainment Writer says. “If we work together.” forth just to get the text to
NEW YORK (AP) — For Earth “This is not about shoving the point where we didn’t
Day, Julian Lennon hopes too many facts down their want to hit anyone on the
to lay the foundation for throats,” Lennon said. “It’s head with the message.
a whole new crop of envi- starting the conversation We wanted to make it not
ronmentalists. He just has to of what this is all about and scary but, at the same time,
wait a decade or two be- empowering them to make create an awareness.”
fore they bloom. the right changes and the This year, Lennon said, he
The firstborn son of the late right decisions and the right has watched with alarm
John Lennon is the co-au- moral choices in their life.” as the White House rolled
thor of “Heal the Earth,” Each book in the series — back many environmental
the second in his picture “Touch the Earth” was the rules, including emissions
book series teaching kids first last year and the third standards for cars and
as young as 3 ways to help will be “Love the Earth” — trucks, pulling the United
the planet. are timed to come out a States out of the Paris cli-
“I wish I had this book when year apart on Earth Day. mate accords and revok-
I was at this age growing An animated series based ing the Clean Power Plan.
up,” he said in a recent in- on the books is in develop- “I hope that something In this April 12, 2017 photo, Julian Lennon poses for a portrait
terview with The Associated ment. turns around soon before in New York. For Earth Day, Julian Lennon hopes to lay the
Press. “I wish we’d all had Mark Gompertz, an editori- it’s too late because this foundation for a whole new crop of environmentalist.
it growing up. The world al director at Skyhorse Pub- is the worst time that any- Associated Press
would be I think a different lishing, said Lennon and co- body could make deci- documentary “Whale- he would let him know that
place. I really do.” author Bart Davis (as well sions reversing laws about dreamers.” He founded the everything was going to be
The latest book follows a as illustrator Smiljana Coh) helping with environmental environmental and human- OK in the form of a white
group of children as they fly tried to keep the book en- issues,” said Lennon. “It’s itarian organization The feather.
across the globe, learning tertaining without diluting disturbing and disgusting.” White Feather Foundation. Years later, Julian was ap-
to protect coral reefs and the message. Lennon has previously tak- Lennon named his founda- proached by an aboriginal
planting gardens in cities “It’s kind of the way he en on environmental issues tion in honor of his father, tribal elder while on tour
and trees in the rainforest. writes a song — every with his music — including who was shot to death in in Australia and he was
“Every day there is some- word has a certain weight 1991’s “Saltwater” — and 1980. John Lennon once asked,
thing new we can do to and a certain meaning. So in film, including the 2006 cryptically told his son that Continued on Page 30