The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
- ISBN13: 9781416972211
- Condition: USED – Like New
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Peek into this diary of an aluminum can as it goes on a journey from inside a bauxite rock, to the manufacturing line, to the store shelf, to a display on a bookshelf, to a garbage can, and finally to a recycling plant where it emerges into its new l
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Review by A. Emery for The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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I love that this is not just a fact-driven book, but an actual story of the process of creating an aluminum can. It a great “green” read for young children.
Review by Beldini for The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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Do you know those books that get passed out at field trips? The coloring books on healthy vegetables that grocery stores give out? Or the ones of how money gets made that banks used to hand out? That’s how this feels — small, unorginal, and very low budget. The subject may be important, but the book is dull.
Review by Shania Hence for The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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Being about recycling and being made frm 100% recycled paper makes this quite the “Green” book. I actually learned something from the book, which I wasn’t expecting. I didn’t not know aluminum was made from bauxite rock or the process and chemicals required to make it what it is. It would be great book to use in a lesson on Earth Day. The illustrator did a great job on the fun, colorful picutres.
Review by Laurie for The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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I’ve been giving this book rave reviews to all of my friends and family with young children. The pictures are bright and guaranteed grab the attention of youngsters, while teaching the importance of and the steps taken in recycling aluminum, using terms that are not difficult for children to understand. Every household with young children should have a copy of this book!
Review by Basil MacDougal for The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)
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I read The Adventures of Aluminum Can to a 5 year old boy. He was clearly uninterested. I loaned the book to two 8 year olds to read and they said it was a little dull.
Personally, I found the illustrations to be well done. The story, however, was a little troubling. You have a piece of animated aluminum, the main character…with no name. The author wants the reader to connect with the aluminum on a personal level, but that is hard to do since it doesn’t even have a name.
The aluminum has made some diary entries (somehow) and this is how we follow his tale. Once extracted from the earth he eventually becomes a sheet of aluminum and then made into a fruit can. A girl (with no name) eats the fruit and then uses the can as a trophy for her baseball. He is so happy being a part of this little girl’s life. Turn the page, and he is now in the back of an old truck headed to a sorting plant and then to a recycling plant. There, he is “shredded…melted.”
He is made into another item. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but let’s just say that he is happy still. He is taken-in by another child where he hopes he “…don’t get recycled for a long time.”
What is the message this book is trying to convey?