Growing Up Elizabeth May: The Making of an Activist
Growing Up Elizabeth May The Making of an Activist Sylvia Olsen with Cate May Burton Orca Book Publishers
Elizabeth and Cate visit with the seventh-grade students and their teacher Ms Shauna White from division four at Bayside Middle School in Brentwood Bay BC
1 Not a Superhero Do you ever see things on TV or hear adults talking about things that just don’t seem right Problems that need to be fixed Do you wish you could change those things Do you ever daydream about having the kind of superpowers that could put an end to poverty so that no one would have to go to bed hungry Or that you could put on a cape or wave a wand and that would stop people from dumping garbage in the water and causing pollution that kills the whales and the fish Do you wish you could find the answer to climate change or say a magic word that would reverse global warming But perhaps you don’t feel like a superhero maybe not even a mini super hero You are a young person and the world looks too big too complicated and too crazy and out of control to fix In this book we tell a story about a Whenever I hear my outer voice saying Why doesn’t someone do something my inner voice tells me that someone is me Elizabeth May girl named Elizabeth Evans May not Lizzie not Liz not Eliza or Beth Even as a baby she was called Elizabeth She likes her full name and is also proud to bear her grandfather’s name Evans 1
