Green Machine - by Rebecca Donnelly (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Celebrate the innovation and science that helps turn your food waste into green energy. See how food scraps are composted, collected, and processed, transforming trash into biogas and electricity. It's a green machine! It's a celebration of sustainability and the important role we humans play in the energy cycle. Share it at Earth Day and every day!"--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From <i>Cats Are a Liquid</i> author Rebecca Donnelly, <i>Green Machine</i> is a playful nonfiction picture book celebrating innovation in the energy cycle with food waste composting--featuring illustrations by Christophe Jacques.</b> <p/><b>Composting is cool! <br></b><br>Celebrate the innovation and science that helps turn your food waste into green energy. See how food scraps are composted, collected, and processed, transforming trash into biogas and electricity. It's a green machine! It's a celebration of sustainability and the important role we humans play in the energy cycle. Share it at Earth Day and every day! <p/><b>*Longlisted for the Nature Generation Green Earth Book Award</b><br> <i><br>Call it Peels on Wheels/ Or a truck full of yuck: / It's a food scraps collection machine!/ It takes all the waste/ (And some slime, and some muck)/ To a place where the garbage goes green.</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Through flowing, rhyming text, Donnelly introduces young readers to composting and its benefits to the environment . . . a strong addition to children's nonfiction collections, perfect for story time as well as classroom discussion --<i>Booklist</i> on <i>Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy <p/></i>An introduction to the innovative (and smelly) processes that turn municipal food waste into electrical energy . . . timely, basic information about transforming food into fuel. --<i>Kirkus Reviews </i>on <i>Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy </i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Rebecca Donnelly </b>is the author of <i>Cats Are a Liquid</i>, illustrated by Misa Saburi; <i>Green Machine</i>, illustrated by Christophe Jacques; and a middle-grade novel, <i>How to Stage a Catastrophe</i>, which was an Indies Introduce/Kids' Indie Next pick. She was born in England and has lived in California, Florida, and New Mexico. These days she writes, studies cats, and works as a children's librarian in northern New York. <p/><b>Christophe Jacques</b> has wanted to be an artist since he was a kid. He loves to create bright worlds with lots of colors and happy faces. <i>Green Machine</i> is his picture book debut. He lives and works in Flanders, Belgium.</p>
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