Here Comes the Garbage Barge!
$37.27
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2010
Summary
This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Pee-yew!”
Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can’t produce unlimited trash without consequences.
Before everyone recycled … There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do?
Enter the Garbage Barge!
Amazi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375852183 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375852182 |
| Author: | Jonah Winter, Red Nose Studio |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 303mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Starred Review, School Library Journal, January 2010: “This title should be a part of every elementary school ecology unit.”
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, January 11, 2010: “Funky in every sense of the word.”
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, January 15, 2010: “A stinky story never seemed so sweet … [a] fantastic combination of text and image.”
Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, April 2010: ”[P]acked with visual delights.”
Review, The New York Times Book Review, November 7, 2010: ”[A] glorious visual treat.”
Review, The Washington Post, March 21, 2010: “Cautionary? Yes. Hilarious? You betcha!”
Review, Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2010: “Here comes the Garbage Barge! tells the story in wonderfully colorful language and inventive claymation-style illustrations.”
Review, Chicago Sun-Times, April 18, 2010: “As compelling as the story is, so are the unusual illustrations.”
About The Author
Jonah Winter
Jonah Winter is the author of You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, Muhammad Ali- Champion of the World, and Dizzy, all of which received multiple starred reviews. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Red Nose Studio creates eccentric worlds of sculptural and 3-D illustrations. Red Nose Studio’s illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and other publications.
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