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Excellent book for older kids and teens, November 23, 2009
This review is from: Recycle This Book: 100 Top Children's Book Authors Tell You How to Go Green (Paperback)
This book is a lot of fun and is a great way to introduce older kids and teens/young adults to some of the concepts of little changes making a big difference in the world. It also has some excellent tips for adults. I'm a mom to a 4 year old an didn't realize it was written more for older kids, so I read it myself and while I know much of what's in the book already, it was still a fun read and gave me some new insights. And I plan to give it as a gift to younger family members who might really get something out of it. I'm not sure what the right age is to start this book, perhaps 8 or 10 and up.
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Great Teaching Tool, July 20, 2009
This review is from: Recycle This Book: 100 Top Children's Book Authors Tell You How to Go Green (Paperback)
Recycle This Book
By Dan Gutman
From the cover which looks like a recycled product, to the short simple ideas it contains, this is a very cleaver idea for a children's environmental book.
I enjoyed reading this compilation of stories by my favorite children's authors, sharing their wisdom about how to care for the earth. Tony Abbott recommends to the reader, "Think of everything you use as if we were running out of it."
Author William Sleator lives in a Thai village surrounded by fruit trees, where his family gardens, raise chickens for meat and eggs, an have a large tank to farm raise fish.
Rosemary Wells, author of more than 100 books, writes about her "Greenkid". Her daughter was born green, and grew up to teach others to grow organic garden. Her greenkid even drives a car with used cooking oil.
In the article, "Alternative Power Rocks", author Shannon Hale, of Goose Girl fame, suggest that our families switch our power to wind power, which is available through our own power company.
Meg Rosoff recommends for readers to "Walk, Chill, and Make a Pile". Tip one: keep the heat down. Tip two: walk more, and Tip three: make a compost heap.
Author Elizabeth Levy writes about "Living in The City." 1- She doesn't own a car, 2- she rides a bike, 3-she takes the subway, and 4-she saves gas and the environment by living in the city.
This is a simple book of wisdom and ideas for living green. It can be read straight through, or savored by reading a few tips each day.
I highly recommend Recycle This Book for kids and their parents and teachers.
I checked the book out at the library, but after finding so many places I wanted to mark with a highlighter, I decided to buy my own copy.
Jill Ammon Vanderwood, author
What's It Like Living Green?: Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way They Live
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2.0 out of 5 stars
eat green!, April 4, 2009
This review is from: Recycle This Book: 100 Top Children's Book Authors Tell You How to Go Green (Paperback)
This was a good idea, the essays are short (a page or two long) and easy to follow, younger children can relate to them and learn from them. (Pre-teens and up are probably too old to get into this book)
"Eating Locally and Seasonally" was interesting and a good example of how our food choices affect the environment. I'm just disappointed that the entire book ignored the meat industry. You simply can't go green on a diet of fish, pigs, cows, and chickens.
Okay, so in "Since we Can't Stop Moose From Belching", Todd Strasser touches on the fact that cows emit a lot of methane gas...but he claims that there is nothing you can do about that. Well there is something you can do. Eat fewer animals.
According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than a half-million cars off U.S. roads.
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