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Apple cores Bananas, bruised Coffee grounds with filters, used Just add to the pot and let it all rot into Compost Stew! From eggshells to wiggly worms, this delightful recipe in bouncy verse features items--some familiar and some not so--that are fit for the home compost bin and will nourish Mother Earth. Vibrant collage illustrations use recycled and found materials to further a timely message. And to keep young environmental chefs fully informed about compostingdo's and don'ts, there's a note in the back about what's not fit for the bin. From the Hardcover edition.

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Review, CM Magazine, October 15, 2010: An imaginative and engaging introduction to the concept of composting. Review, Through the Looking Glass, June 1, 2010: This wonderful rhyming picture book will show children how easy, and how fun, composting can be. Review, San Francisco Chronicle Bouncy rhymes and busy collage art zip along as everything from apple cores to zinnia heads gets tossed into a rich and rotting soil-bound mix. A potentially heavy-handed message is delivered with a light touch so that you want to start your own waste heap right away. Mission accomplished! Review, Washington Post When it comes to promoting environmentalism, there's no harm in starting young....Ashley Wolff's collage-style illustrations, made from newspaper, tea bags and other recycled materials, echo writer Mary McKenna Siddals's message of reducing waste. Review, Booklist This title highlights a subject rarely covered in youth books and provides a lighthearted introduction to an earth- and kid-friendly activity. The brightly patterned collage artwork featuring a cast of multicultural kids working together will easily draw a young audience. Compost Stew is beautiful, poetic, evocative--and educational. It provides such vital, important information for children (and adults) to understand and embrace, and to put into practice! This book greatly respects its readers, and I hope it will become as widely read and popular as it deserves. -Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook and Pretend Soup Review, Through the Looking Glass, June 1, 2010: This wonderful rhyming picture book will show children how easy, and how fun, composting can be. Review, San Francisco Chronicle: Bouncy rhymes and busy collage art zip along as everything from apple cores to zinnia heads gets tossed into a rich and rotting soil-bound mix. A potentially heavy-handed message is delivered with a light touch so that you want to start your own waste heap right away. Mission accomplished! Review, Washington Post: When it comes to promoting environmentalism, there's no harm in starting young....Ashley Wolff's collage-style illustrations, made from newspaper, tea bags and other recycled materials, echo writer Mary McKenna Siddals's message of reducing waste. Review, Booklist: This title highlights a subject rarely covered in youth books and provides a lighthearted introduction to an earth- and kid-friendly activity. The brightly patterned collage artwork featuring a cast of mu

Review, Through the Looking Glass, June 1, 2010: <br> This wonderful rhyming picture book will show children how easy, and how fun, composting can be. <br>Review, San Francisco Chronicle: <br> Bouncy rhymes and busy collage art zip along as everything from apple cores to zinnia heads gets tossed into a rich and rotting soil-bound mix. A potentially heavy-handed message is delivered with a light touch so that you want to start your own waste heap right away. Mission accomplished! <br>Review, Washington Post: <br> When it comes to promoting environmentalism, there's no harm in starting young....Ashley Wolff's collage-style illustrations, made from newspaper, tea bags and other recycled materials, echo writer Mary McKenna Siddals's message of reducing waste. <br>Review, Booklist: <br> This title highlights a subject rarely covered in youth books and provides a lighthearted introduction to an earth- and kid-friendly activity. The brightly patterned collage artwork featuring a cast of mu

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"MARY McKENNA SIDDALS is the author of several picture books for the very young, including ""Millions of Snowflakes."" In addition, she has written dozens of children's stories, articles, poems, and activities appearing in a variety of magazines. A former teacher, she lives in British Columbia, Canada, where she enjoys tending to her own batch of Compost Stew. ASHLEY WOLFF is the author and/or illustrator of more than sixty children's books, including ""Baby Beluga"";"" I Love My Mommy Because"";"" I Love My Daddy Because"";"" Mama's Milk"";"" Stella and Roy Go Camping"";"" I Call My Grandma Nana"";"" I Call My Grandpa Papa"";"" When Lucy Goes Out Walking""; and the beloved Miss Bindergarten series. Ashley wrangles thousands of red wriggler compost worms in her San Francisco backyard garden. She grows flowers, vegetables, and an amazingly prolific persimmon tree."

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