In my new book, Kat Wolfe Investigates, Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb are lucky enough to live in an idyllic seaside town on the Jurassic Coast. Kat loves swimming in the waves or galloping chestnut racehorse, Charming Outlaw, along golden beaches, and Harper and her paleontologist father adore the nature and history of Bluebell Bay, Dorset. If you’re as passionate as they are about saving our oceans and dolphins and other marine life, please think twice before you use plastic, e

Plastic wrappers, ropes and, lids, Plastic bags and toys for kids Plastic straws and forks and knives, All long to live quite different lives. They dream of tangling birds and whales Of tying up a dolphin’s tail! Or, when broken into bits like peas Ending up as fishes’ teas. Plastics want to join the band Of plastic stuff from every land That’s rolled in currents far from shore, Where they can live for ever more. So don't let plastic things get free Or they will end up in the

Plastic is the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year because of its significant increase in use in 500 Words (a total rise of more than 100% on the 2017 competition), the awareness and passion children demonstrated for environmental issues, and the creative solutions to combat them that children invented in their stories. This demonstrated the huge impact the final episode of David Attenborough's Blue Planet II (screened on BBC1 in December 2017) had on the nation’s children. Ch