Zero Waste: How One Community Is Leading a World Recycling Revolution (Green Power #5)

by Allan Drummond (Author)

Zero Waste: How One Community Is Leading a World Recycling Revolution (Green Power #5)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Green Power
In this fifth installment in Allan Drummond’s picture book series about green living, a town in Japan takes a stand against its throwaway past and shows that it really does take a village to make sustainable change.

Kamikatsu, Japan is known worldwide for its sanitation innovations. This small community of 1700 people is leading the way in recycling and up-cycling, and as of 2022, had nearly achieved its goal of zero waste. Told in Allan's hallmark narrative style, Zero Waste is the story of a group of citizens who dared to break out of their comfort zone and make radical change for the good of their town and the planet. Through the eyes of two children visiting their grandmother, this inspiring addition to the author’s acclaimed Green Power series about everyday communities inventing exciting new approaches to green living shows that working together for a common cause has an impact that is lasting, meaningful―and fun!
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Kirkus

Charmingly encourages our own environmental efforts.

ALA/Booklist

The fifth in his Green Power series, this picture book shows the challenges and rewards of living in a zero-waste town.

None

Drummond (Solar Story, rev. 5/20; Pedal Power, rev. 1/17) continues to spotlight communities that adopt environmentally sustainable projects.

Publishers Weekly

Drummond expands his Green Power series with this inspiring account of the citizens of Kamikatsu, Japan, and their zero-waste goal. Two children's visit to see their proverb-loving grandmother provides framing for the narrative. During the visit, the trio sort trash into varied bins--nine for different paper types, six for varied plastic materials, five for metal, six for glass--providing insight into Kamikatsu's real-life pledge to reduce, reuse, or recycle all waste. Lengthy sidebars offer context and definitions, while narration and speech bubbles educate and persuade: "Recycling? I'm too old for that!" reads one bubble. "Chiritsumo! A journey begins with the first step," Grandma replies in the main text. Loosely marked art has calligraphy-like movement and flair. Appropriately focused on community members, illustrations showcase the story's emphasis on how working together can help solve even seemingly impossible environmental problems. An author's note, references, and photos append. Ages 4-8. (Mar.)

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Review quotes

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

"This latest in Drummond's Green Power series, which explores successful sustainability projects, highlights a Japanese town committed to careful recycling, reuse of what they have, and reduction of further purchasing. As always, he tells his story in ways that will connect with his audience. Using clear, conversational prose punctuated with cheerful, color-washed pen-and-ink drawings and even some speech bubbles, he describes two children's visit to their grandmother in Kamikatsu . . . Charmingly encourages our own environmental efforts." —Kirkus Reviews

"The fictional story offers children a way to connect with the ideas and facts . . . while Drummond's illustrations set a jaunty tone. The fifth in his Green Power series, this picture book shows the challenges and rewards of living in a zero-waste town." —Booklist

"Inspiring." —Horn Book

Allan Drummond
Allan Drummond is the author and illustrator of many books, including the other Green Power titles, Pedal Power, Energy Island, Green City, and Solar Story. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and currently lives in Suffolk, Engla
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780374388409
Lexile Measure
760
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
March 21, 2023
Series
Green Power
BISAC categories
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF065000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Recycling & Green Living
Library of Congress categories
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