Waste Management Book List
Book recommendations – Waste Management
We have grouped books into topics that align with our four pillars of learning – Biodiversity, Food Production, First Nations perspectives and Waste Management.
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Title: The Tomorrow Book
Author(s): Jackie French
Age group: 5-9
Description: A timely picture book about a young prince who is determined to rule over a country where the future is filled with environmental hope – and practical solutions, such as common usage of solar and wind power. Lively, fun and positive, this book serves to give young people information about their world and shows them that a lot of environmental solutions are simple and relatively easy to put in place. Produced on recycled paper to reflect the message within, this is a beautiful book.
Title: What do they do with all the Poo from all the Animals at the Zoo
Author(s): Anh Do!
Age group: 5-7
Description: What do they do with all the poo, from all the animals at the zoo?The hippos, the tigers, the kangaroos–what do they do with all that poo? There’s so much poo at the zoo… Where does it all go? With the hilarious bonus CD recording, you can sing along in search of the stinky truth. A belly-busting take on a serious problem–waste
Title: The 104 Story Treehouse
Author(s): Andy Griffiths
Age group: 7-9
Description: Join Andy and Terry in their wonderfully wild and wacky 104-storey treehouse. You can throw some refrigerators, make some money with the money-making machine (or honey if you’d prefer-it makes that too), climb the never-ending staircase, have a bunfight, deposit some burps in the burp bank, get totally tangled up in the tangled-up level, or just take some time out and relax in the peaceful sunny meadow full of buttercups, butterflies and bluebirds.
Title: Elizabella and the Great Tuckshop Takeover
Author(s): Zoë Norton Lodge and Georgia Norton Lodge
Age group: 8-12
Description: Sometimes you’ve gotta bend the rules to straighten things out! The second book in the hilarious Elizabella series is middle grade at its finest.
It’s the beginning of term for Elizabella and her gang, but instead of being a fresh start, it’s a rotten one. The school is falling apart and misery sets in when a big corporation takes over the tuckshop, leaving poor Miss Duck out of a job. Meanwhile, there’s a lice outbreak at Bilby Creek Primary and a competition to write the School Song. How will Elizabella deal with all of this? In true Elizabella style, of course!
Title: A Turtle’s Friend
Author(s): Vicki Beazley and Leanne Woolsey
Age group: 3-8
Description: An environmental children’s adventure book about 3 turtle friends who become aware of the impact humans are having on their marine environment.
Title: Aluminium
Author(s): Kate Walker
Age group: 3+
Description: All around the world, people are finding ways to conserve resources, reduce pollution, and protect the environment. In this series from Smart Apple Media, readers will learn how a variety of materials are recycled, as well as what governments, industries, and communities are doing to help the planet. Case studies and student activities complete each title.
Title: Ella Diaries #11: Going Green
Author(s): Meredith Costain
Age group: 8+
Description: Ella’s school is going green! And theres going to be an ELECTION to choose a Planet Protector CAPTAIN. Being Captain is Ella’s dream: shell be in charge of all the cool projects AND get to wear a sparkly uniform! But sneaky Peach Parker wants to be Captain too and will stop at nothing to GET MORE VOTES.
Title: The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land & Other Eco-Tales
Author(s): Anne Morgan
Age group: 9-12
Description: In Anne Morgan’s delightful collection of organically grown eco-tales, a prince wants to marry the young woman with the smallest carbon footprint in the land; Space Cadet Lox finds out why a planet is like a bowl of porridge; a girl in a little green hoodie tries to save an endangered wolf; and Chicken Licken warns the sea is rising. Times have changed in Fairytale Land!
Title: The Ugg boot war
Author(s): Kylie Fornasier
Age group: 8-10
Description: Oh no! Dad’s out in public again with his ugg boots on! Jake wishes he would wear proper shoes like all the other dads. This means war!
Title: Tilly’s reef adventure
Author(s): Rhonda Garward
Age group: 4-7
Description: Tilly’s Reef Adventure is a delightful lift-the-flap book about a baby Green Turtle who, against the odds, makes it into the ocean and begins her journey in the seas of the Great Barrier Reef, meeting friends and foe along the way.
After surviving some adventures on the reef, she finds herself caught in a plastic bag that she has mistaken for a jellyfish. She is washed up on a beach where she is saved just in time by children who are cleaning up rubbish along the shore. At the back of the book, there is extra information about the reef, including threats to the reef and how you can help keep it, as well as other parts of our environment, healthy and free of rubbish.
Title: It’s true! This book is a load of rubbish
Author(s): Deborah Burnside
Age group: 8-12
Description: A book that unearths the facts about rubbish and recycling through the ages: from dustmen, mudlarks, toshers and rakers to litter on Everest; from George Clooney’s pig pal, Max, to a dunny fit for a Chinese emperor. This is the fourteenth title in the fantastic It’s True! series.
Here’s a racy review of rubbish and recycling through the ages, from the times when pigs were let loose in the street to clean up garbage to today’s high-tech methods for re-using glass and plastic. Dig up the dirt on muckrakers and mudlarks. Dive into drains and delve into dumps to find out the lore and law of rubbish. Unearth the facts about spies who fossicked in trash cans looking for evidence of dirty deeds, and inventors hoping to patent the perfect dunny. Once you’ve read this book, the 3Rs will never be the same again.
Title: How to Save the Whole Stinkin‘ Planet: A Garbological Adventure
Author(s): Lee Constable
Age group: 9-11
Description: Let’s go on a journey - it’s going to be stinky, sticky and pretty gross, but if you want to be a waste warrior it’s the most important journey you’ll ever take.
How to Save the Whole Stinkin‘ Planet will take you on a garbological adventure like no other. From diving into the rubbish bin and delving into landfill, to rummaging through the recycling and digging about in compost.
As a waste warrior in training, you will earn badges as you work your way through each chapter, completing activities, DIYs and eco-experiments. Every part of this training will enhance your understanding of waste management and the impact our household rubbish is having on the (stinkin‘) planet.
If you have a book recommendation to add to the list, please email: juniorlandcare@landcareaustralia.com.au