A young reader's book about recycling is always a good idea. The sooner you can bring a child's attention to ways they can help improve our world, the better. This book does a good job of describing the various aspects that go into recycling and gives good tips for kids and adults to help them learn what they can do to help. The organization of the book seems to follow a pattern and seems to be grouped by whatever aspect of reducing, reusing, or recycling they are describing, but for the most part, it was a bit all over the place for me.
Each section contains a question that acts as the "chapter title" I suppose, which I really liked. I think adding questions in a children's nonfiction book is beneficial to their learning how to search for answers to important questions. But I still felt a little discombobulated while reading. There is a lot of information contained in this book and I would assume that it is geared more towards older children, but I almost feel like less would have been more for this book.
It taught me a lot about specific aspects of recycling, mainly what happens in the recycling plants, which is great, but there just really is a lot of information on each page. The illustrations are great and are fitting to the concepts discussed on each page, but the shear volume of text on each page is a bit overwhelming, even for an adult reader like me.
While I would recommend this book because it does contain helpful tips and information, I would probably try to present it to kids in chunks, not in one reading. ( )