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Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3?A cursory look at the subject. Very little text is included on each double-page spread and it is, for the most part, straightforward and unpretentious. Children may not quite understand completely how using refuse in a home garden works, but they will grasp the main concept. A final page provides questions and answers about composting and suggests a simple experiment. Hariton's watercolors are almost too attractive to fit the purpose. With their busy borders, attention to fine detail, and glorious blending of color, the pages seem to promise poetry that the text does not deliver. Nonetheless, the book is a real pleasure to look at and offers an adequate introduction to a sound environmental practice.?Rosie Peasley, Empire Union School District, Modesto, CA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ages 3^-6. In this nonfiction picture book, a little girl explains how her family turns garbage and garden waste into soil using their compost bin. She throws in lima beans from dinner, a moldy jack-o'-lantern from Halloween, grass clippings, wilted flowers, her rabbit's droppings, and fallen leaves. Over the winter she helps water the pile, watches her mother turn it, feels the heat of the compost, smells its earthy smell, and helps spread it on the garden for spring planting. Luminous watercolor paintings in bright pastel shades give the book immediacy and eye appeal. On the last two pages, the author offers adult readers a more detailed explanation of the process and purpose of composting. Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Grade 1-3?A cursory look at the subject. Very little text is included on each double-page spread and it is, for the most part, straightforward and unpretentious. Children may not quite understand completely how using refuse in a home garden works, but they will grasp the main concept. A final page provides questions and answers about composting and suggests a simple experiment. Hariton's watercolors are almost too attractive to fit the purpose. With their busy borders, attention to fine detail, and glorious blending of color, the pages seem to promise poetry that the text does not deliver. Nonetheless, the book is a real pleasure to look at and offers an adequate introduction to a sound environmental practice.?Rosie Peasley, Empire Union School District, Modesto, CA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Ages 3^-6. In this nonfiction picture book, a little girl explains how her family turns garbage and garden waste into soil using their compost bin. She throws in lima beans from dinner, a moldy jack-o'-lantern from Halloween, grass clippings, wilted flowers, her rabbit's droppings, and fallen leaves. Over the winter she helps water the pile, watches her mother turn it, feels the heat of the compost, smells its earthy smell, and helps spread it on the garden for spring planting. Luminous watercolor paintings in bright pastel shades give the book immediacy and eye appeal. On the last two pages, the author offers adult readers a more detailed explanation of the process and purpose of composting. Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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