Overview
Minna, a creative bunny, wants to win the Community Recycling Calendar Contest. She knows a lot about recycling but just can’t come up with the perfect idea for her poster. Minna’s family helps her find inspiration as they share their own recycling efforts. The book’s bright, bold cut-paper illustrations are enhanced by Wallace’s use of recycled materials such as bubble wrap, envelopes, and wallpaper. With games, activities, and recycling suggestions, this book is destined to be read again and again.
A busy family of rabbits demonstrates the three R's of recycling. Minna, a creative bunny, wants to win the Community Recycling Calendar Contest. She knows a lot about recycling but just can't come up with the perfect idea for her poster. Minna's family helps her find inspiration as they share their own recycling efforts. The book's bright, bold cut-paper illustrations are enhanced by Wallace's use of recycled materials such as bubble wrap, envelopes, and wallpaper. With games, activities, and recycling suggestions, this is a book destined to be read again and again.
Synopsis
Mina, a creative bunny, wants to win the Community Recycling Calendar contest. She knows all about the three R's of reducing, reusing, and recycling but can't think of the perfect idea for her poster. The whole family helps Mina find inspiration by looking at different ways to recycle every day — from donating clothes to a community clothing bank to buying items made of recycled materials. Mina's creativity and enthusiasm for recycling win the highest honor. Wallace's simple, colorful cut-paper illustrations give the characters and scenes a three-dimensional quality.
Children's Literature
Minna the rabbit enters a poster contest with a recycling theme. The chosen posters will decorate a calendar. Her family helps her to brainstorm ideas as they recycle all week long. Minna is pleased with her poster and disappointed when it is not picked to represent any of the months. Happily, it is revealed to be the cover of the calendar. Recycling is encouraged without the story becoming overly didactic. The book concludes with a recycle game, an activity and a list of the recycled materials used in the illustrations. The sprightly collage rabbits are expressive as they go about their recycling activities. The end papers are particularly clever; the calendar pages are blank in the front, and the winning posters are filled in at the back. This would be a fine way to introduce this timely topic to very young children. 2003, Marshall Cavendish, Nevett