Description For his birthday celebration, Nick has challenged his friends - Yulee, Sally, Pedro and Martin - to spend the day without using any single-use plastic.
He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia..
Scot Ritchie is an award-winning author-illustrator of over 50 books including Follow That Map!, Look Where We Live! and My House Is Alive!: The Weird and Wonderful Sounds Your House Makes.
He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
About the Author Scot Ritchie is an award-winning author-illustrator of over 50 books including Follow That Map!, Look Where We Live! and My House Is Alive!: The Weird and Wonderful Sounds Your House Makes.
It also offers terrific character education lessons in responsibility, citizenship and initiative.
It has strong curriculum ties in science, including environmental awareness, sustainability and stewardship.
As with all the books in the series, this one features friendly, appealing illustrations and the same diverse cast of characters.
Rather than focusing on the negative, however, the Book takes a positive, proactive approach to the subject, empowering children with ideas for what they can do about it.
It will raise awareness of just how much plastic we use every day, and why that matters.
Most importantly, the five friends learn ways to use less - including just saying NO The Book concludes with fun ideas for readers to do a No-Plastic Challenge of their own This friendly introduction to a timely and urgent topic is part of Scot Ritchie\'s popular Exploring Our Community series.
They also learn about what plastic is made of, how much of it surrounds us and how it\'s polluting our oceans and affecting the food chain.
The children discover that not using plastic is not that hard.
This means they use their own cloth bags for shopping, they say no thanks to plastic straws and, instead of balloons, they decorate with kites and streamers made of natural materials.
Description For his birthday celebration, Nick has challenged his friends - Yulee, Sally, Pedro and Martin - to spend the day without using any single-use plastic
