Follow That Paper
Follow That Paper, A Paper Recycling Journey is part of Keeping Cities Clean Series, and has three companion books. Each title in the series is intended for early elementary aged children. The book has clean colorful graphics. Pages five and six explain and demonstrate how a recycling truck lifts a dumpster and empties the contents into the truck. We just moved to a new neighborhood with roll-out bins for both garbage and multi-stream recycled items. The truck has an arm which lifts the bin in the same manner. My husband, Rob, read Follow That Paper to our favorite six year old, Paul, and took time to explain how the truck loads and empties the bin. Rob even reviewed the vocabulary in the glossary (p.23) with Paul. Paul just wasn't interested. The book felt too much like school. This same book might enjoy a better response in the context of a classroom. The book accurately traces the journey of a sheet of notebook paper to its logical end: recycled paper towel for a school. My concern is that many elementary teachers invest an inordinate amount of time teaching recycling to kids. This book certainly supports a lesson on recycling paper. The activity making paper beads (p. 22) would be fun in a classroom as a follow-up to the story. My only caveat is the price, a whopping $19.99, making the book out of reach for most classroom teachers.
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