Welcome to the March 4th stop on the blog tour for A Plastic Free World for You and Me by Tracey Szynkaruk, organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for excerpt spotlights, reviews, interviews, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.
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About the Book
A Plastic-Free World for You and Me
by Tracey Szynkaruk
Published 13 October 2020
Tellwell Talent
Genre: Children’s
Page Count: 32
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Join Theo, a young boy who, with the help of his teacher and classmates, is working to reduce the need for plastic use in day-to-day life. From grocery stores to restaurants, read along to see how plastic use can be minimized to help make a plastic-free world for you and me!
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Excerpt
On Monday, at school, Ms. Cho addresses the students: “Was anybody able to reduce plastic use in their home on the weekend? Can anyone share their story?” Everyone in the classroom shoots up their hands excitedly!
Ms. Cho says, “Oh this is great! Let’s hear some stories. Denise, why don’t you share your experience?”
Denise says, “My parents have stopped buying bottled water, we are going to only use compostable dog waste bags and start a compost at home!”
My Review
My Rating: 5 Stars
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I was granted complimentary access to a review copy of A Plastic-Free World as part of my participation in a blog tour for this title with Goddess Fish Promtions. Thank you to all involved for affording me this opportunity! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest.
A Plastic-Free World is the story of a boy named Theo and his quest to exterminate all single-use plastics used by his family, friends, and school. We start out in the grocery store where Theo and his mother are shopping and Theo asks about alternatives to every instance of single-use plastic he sees. From there Theo goes about his day with his father, goes to school the next day, etc. all while finding more ways to eliminate the use of wasteful plastics.
First of all, the illustrations in this book are very well done and I thought this book was a pleasure to look at as I read through it! Bravo!
I think this book shares a very important message in a digestible way that is written at an age-appropriate language level for young kids. I was a little apprehensive going into it that this book would come off preachy, but it didn’t. This book points out all the single-use plastics in our day-to-day lives and suggests alternatives, with an emphasis on how important it is, but at no point does the book judge anyone. I wish all of the solutions offered in this book were available to me where I live, but many (particularly businesses to purchase refills of consumer goods in reusable containers) simply aren’t here on this island. I am grateful that we have at least banned plastic bags from our stores, and my family and I have dutifully brought our own washable bags on every grocery trip for the past two years.
I only have a couple of small critiques of the solutions presented in this book. First, when Theo asks his mother not to use the small plastic bags in the produce section at the grocery store, she agrees she doesn’t need them because she can wash the veggies when they get home. Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t we be washing our produce anyway? And don’t people generally bag produce in small bags to keep bulk quantity items together? I would have liked to see the washable mesh alternative produce bags suggested in place of the store’s plastic bags instead because this fills the practical need people have for such bags and doesn’t imply that the plastic bag users don’t need to wash their produce. My other critique is the suggestion to bring a reusable container to a restaurant for leftovers. Great idea in theory, but not all restaurants are going to allow the server to take a customer’s container from home to the kitchen to put food in it. That would likely present a contamination risk in the kitchen. If we’re talking leftovers not finished at a sit-down meal then the customer can do this for themself, but if this is a take-out order situation it may be refused.
Overall this is a great book with a very important message, and I would recommend it to all families and primary/elementary grade schools.
About the Author
Tracey Szynkaruk is a young author and mother of one who resides in Grand Forks, British Columbia. She hopes she can inspire people to make plastic-free choices for a cleaner and more sustainable world for her children and yours!
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Giveaway Alert!
Tracey Szynkaruk will be awarding a $20 Amazonor Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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Thanks for sharing your review!
Sounds like a great read.
Sounds like a great book to introduce to the children at school thanks I will look out for it.