Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean (Finding Out about Holidays) [Library Binding]

Elaine Landau (Author)

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From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5-A straightforward, somewhat didactic look at the history behind this red-letter day. The majority of the book focuses on how it was started, what was accomplished between the first celebration in 1970 and next in 1990, and how it became an annual, worldwide observance. Information on what students can do to promote and participate in Earth Day is given an entire chapter, as is advice on what readers can do to help clean up the environment. Sidebars at the beginning of each chapter offer slight additional information or statements, such as "Our planet is sick because we have not taken good care of it." Crisp, full-color photographs are sprinkled generously throughout the text. An Earth Day craft project is appended with the back matter. Overall, this title will be useful for students looking for basic information on this topic.
Lisa Gangemi Kropp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Library Binding: 48 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Elementary (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766017788
• ISBN-13: 978-0766017788
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,938,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a children's book author and writing coach who loves both children and books. I've never been much of a fiction fan, I've spent my time both reading and writing nonfiction. I live in tropical Miami with my husband and son who are nonfiction lovers as well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly presented environmental awareness for young readers, March 28, 2002

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This review is from: Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean (Finding Out about Holidays) (Library Binding)

Part of the Enslow Publishers' outstanding "Finding Out About Holidays" series, Elaine Landau's Earth Day: Keeping Our Planet Clean teaches young readers about the history of Earth Day from its first celebration in 1970, and also emphasizes the importance of keeping the planet clean and doing one's part to recycle, plant trees, and conserve water. An excellent educational book ideal for showing the importance of environmental awareness to the next generation, Earth Day is very strongly recommended for school and community library collections, and would prove invaluable for enhancing a homeschooling curriculum nature/ecology studies reading list as well.