Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug - Picture Book # 23

Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug
Author: Ellie Bethel

Illustrator: Alexandra Colombo


Publisher: Meadowside Children's Books, London, 2009



Genre: Fiction

Themes: trash, recycling, rhyming, littering, garbage, cleaning



Primary Characters: Litterbug Doug and Michael Recycle

Summary:
    Litterbug Doug throws his trash all over the place.  he lives right outside of town and man can he make a mess.  He even has pet cats and rats that run his trash kingdom.  Then one day his trash mountain crumbles and collapses.  When out of the sky guess who appears.  It's Michael Recycle.  It takes a long time but he convinces Litterbug Doug to clean up his act and his home.  Together they learn about recycling and reusing things.  Soon the town is spic and span again.

The end of this book has several pages containing facts trash and recycling.  Students can be asked to make posters to encourage people to recycle using some of the new facts they learned.

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