5 star rating October 11, 2007 Cris B.
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Teaching Kids to Recycle

Gail Gibbons gives educators, caregivers and parents a fun, easy-to-read, very well-organized guide that's all about recycling. Her book is designed to teach and train kids ages 4-8 to be environmentalists and recyclers, who in fifteen years will be young adults, consumers, and the mover-and-shakers in our society with the responsibility of making critical decision about serious health issues and the ravages of global heating.

"Recycle! A Handbook for Kids" colorfully illustrates how much of a garbage problem we have, where it goes, how it's treated, how to cut down the amount of garbage that ends up in our landfills, and what is recyclable: cans, glass, paper, plastic, and polystyrene. Gibbons asks the kids "Can you believe?" and follows her question with thumbnails and factoids like "All the people in the United States make enough garbage each day to fill 100,000 garbage trucks" and "Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in the United States gets recycled".

Adults and kids everywhere, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is recycle, recycle, RECYCLE!

Cris' keywords: recycle, reuse, environment, earth, planet, kids, children, waste reduction, school, home, education

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