Recycle Every Day!
Written and Illustrated by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
(Scholastic Inc., 2003)
Recycle Every Day! is the perfect book to teach young ones about recycling. I suppose even older readers could learn a thing or two.
Minna (a bunny daughter) had a school assignment to make a poster about recycling. Contest winners would have their poster in the calendar of recycling. Minna really wanted to win.
Good thing for her, Minna's family already did a lot of recycling. And they were willing to help her learn all about recycling and get ideas for her poster.
For an entire week, Minna's family recycled. Here are some things they did to recycle: donated outgrown clothes to a community clothing bank, put yard waste in a compost bucket, took empty cans to recycling, rode their bikes, used tote bags when shopping, walked to go shopping, donated books to other children, and used plastic containers to store food.
Minna used recycled materials to create her poster. Did Minna win? Minna's poster was not featured on one of the monthly pages. But Minna's poster was the cover of the entire calendar!
Readers will learn many things about easy-to-do recycling in Recycle Every Day!
KID KANDY:
Choose one thing Minna did when she was recycling. Do it with your family.
- walk to the store
- use a fabric tote bag for things you buy
- compost yard leftovers
- ride a bike instead of driving
- donate outgrown clothes to someone who needs them
- give books to others who don't have any
- recycle aluminum cans (or bottles, cardboard, paper, tin cans)
- use plastic containers to store leftover food
How did you do?
Can your family choose one other way to recycle?
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