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A title in the Lets-read-and-find-out about science series for young readers, that explores the natural world.
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
A class of grade-school students learns about waste disposal and recycling in a simple, accessible text. The clear, color illustrations are particularly effective in showing the recycling process for paper, aluminum, and glass. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Though this introduction to the making and processing of milk -- from the cow chewing grass and storing it in ""the first or second of her four stomachs"" (""That's right -- a cow has four stomachs"") to the butter and yogurt the author tells readers how to make at home -- won't strike anyone as at all special, we wish all writers and illustrators of nonfiction at this level would take lessons from Aliki. She manages to work the usual information about cows, dairies, pasteurization, etc., into compact sentences that are both comfortably easygoing and consistently to the point. In the same way the pictures look breezy and pleasant but they too are functional: besides diagrams of a cow's digestive process and the progress of a truckload of milk through a dairy's pipes, machines and packaging station, there is the little girl admiring a new calf (""She's three hours old and walking already!""), the classroom full of children, each naming a different milk product (surely a neater way to handle this obvious information than are the dull lists most such books include in the text), and a generally inviting and well integrated variety of scenes. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Ages 5-8. The 1974 edition of this Let's-Read-and-Find-Out book began with a girl saying, "Everything goes into the garbage pail in our house." Showers suggested recycling as the solution to the problem of massive waste, but even he probably didn't expect that 20 years later the revised book would begin with a teacher telling her class about the "way things used to be" and contrasting it with current landfill and recycling programs. Clearly written and accessible to young children, the book explains what used to happen to solid waste, what goes into landfills, and how aluminum, newspapers, glass bottles and jars, and plastics are recycled today. Although Chewning's ink drawings are clear and appealing, his use of multicolor, hyper-bright washes sometimes distracts the eye and detracts from the pictures as illustrations. Given the usefulness of this book in the classroom, public and school libraries will want to have at least one copy of the new edition. ~--Carolyn Phelan
