Save Everything! (and the Picture Book)...January Edition

Picture books are imagination factories. And with imagination, anything is possible.

How to Save the World! (and the Picture Book) in 6 Easy Steps

1. Choose One (or More):

□ Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: a Compost Story by Linda Glaser, photos by Shelley Rotner

□ The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

□ Here Comes the Garbage Barge by Jonah Winter and Red Nose Studio

□ Redwoods by Jason Chin

□ One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss, ill. by Rosemary Woods

□ How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz

□ Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

□ One World, One Day by Barbara Kerley

□ All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon, ill. by Marla Frazee

□ When It’s Six O’Clock in San Francisco: a Trip Through Time Zones by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu and Randy DuBurke

□ Did you know that larvae were the original recyclers—by digesting waste and enriching the soil? That’s why What to Expect When You’re Expecting Larvae: a Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Children) by Bridget Heos, ill. by Stéphane Jorisch, completes our Save the World! List. Watch for it this Spring from Lerner/Millbrook!

2. Check the picture book out from the library, or buy it.

3. Read it to kids (or have them read it.)

4. Have them write a review. Little kids can draw a picture and a smiley face if they like it. Big kids can write a couple paragraphs, complete a book review worksheet, or do something creative. For ideas, see the next post.

5. Send the reviews to authorbheos@gmail.com or 7443 Walnut, K.C., MO 64114. Include the child's first name and age, and the parent's or teacher's email address (which won’t be shared.) If you are a teacher sending in reviews, please send them in together. Watch for select reviews to appear here.

6. Give yourself a gold star. You have saved the world! (and the picture book.) You may also have won a prize.

Teacher Prizes! The first teacher to send in 20 book reviews will win Guinness World Records 2011, a 60-piece sphere world puzzle, and one of our featured picture books: When It’s Six O’Clock in San Francisco: a Trip Through Time Zones by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu and Randy DuBurke.

Kid Prizes! One book reviewer’s name will be drawn to win a U.S.A./Canada map puzzle and a picture book.

Be sure to check back in February for a sweet book list and some sweet prizes!