The Stone Gate and climate change
The Stone Gate aims to introduce young readers to the issue of climate change in an exciting, non-preachy way through imagination and storytelling. Please consider giving The Stone Gate to the young adult in your life! I wrote this short essay explaining why imagination is the missing ingredient for the climate action movement. 

Inspirations
Here are some of the sources I drew upon in creating the worlds in The Stone Gate.

Climate organisations/Teachers
The Stone Gate is an innovative and engaging way to introduce students (Years 6-9) to climate change, sustainability and Australian environment themes, and I’d love to work with teachers or with climate organisations trying to reach out to young people. I’m happy to make The Stone Gate available on a no-profit basis or as a free ebook. Please email me. Read more here.

Do me a favour!
If you read and enjoy The Stone Gate, please post a short customer review on Amazon.com and/or Goodreads.com. Reviews really help!

 

Mark Mann: author
I’m a writer, journalist, parent and environmentalist, and spend a lot of my spare time bushwalking in Brisbane Water National Park, near my home on the NSW Central Coast. I wrote The Stone Gate to “bring climate change to life” for young readers, but also to write an exciting adventure my own teenage kids would enjoy. (I’m pleased to say it passed that test.)

 

 

 

 

 

The Little Green Guide
By the way, a few years ago I wrote a “pocket guide” to green living for Planet Ark called The Little Green Guide: click on the book cover below to read that book.