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Synopsis
When Minna has a school assignment to make a poster about recycling, her entire rabbit family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and suggesting ideas for her poster.
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