In the Star a few days ago there was a review of three different picture books with "green messages" for kids.
One was called "The Smash! Smash! Truck", (by David Fickling) refering to the sound of the recycling truck dumping bins on recycling day. It expels an account of the cycles of earth, water, plants, and animals ... basing its story around the fact that no atom ever wears out, we just make them useless for a long time.
What it means is this - we throw shit out and forget about it. We figure that things "dont exist" when we toss them ... but they go somewhere. Things just dont stop EXISTING. EVER ! They exist in landfills and obviously have effects on our sweet green earth. This rad little book attempts to teach kids whats up with the perpetual cycles of matter. The protagonist, Aidan Potts, starts it off with the Big Bang.
And it also describes how humans are materially implicated in the substance of the earth and sky.
And its a pop up book which is fucking cool.
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