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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; min-height: 12.0px} For his birthday celebration, Nick has challenged his friends - Yulee, Sally, Pedro and Martin - to spend the day without using any single-use plastic. 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. The children discover that not using plastic is not that hard. 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. 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. It will raise awareness of just how much plastic we use every day, and why that matters. 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. As with all the books in the series, this one features friendly, appealing illustrations and the same diverse cast of characters. It has strong curriculum ties in science, including environmental awareness, sustainability and stewardship. It also offers terrific character education lessons in responsibility, citizenship and initiative.
About the Author
Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator/author who lives in Vancouver Canada. Many of Scot's 65 books have been translated into French, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Finnish, Arabic and Dutch.Scot has been published by Canada's top publishers including Groundwood, Kids Can Press, Pajama Press, Owl Kids, Annick Press, Scholastic and Harbour Publishing. He has also worked with the National Film Board of Canada and exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada.In 2020 Scot's book Follow That Bee! was given the Children's Science Picture Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize as a FinalistIn 2019 Follow That Bee was also a Best Books for Kids & Teens, Starred Selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner.In 2010 'Follow that Map!', a book Scot wrote and illustrated, was nominated for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non Fiction. His book "Let's Go!' (written by Lizann Flatt) was chosen as the 2009 give-away Book of the Year by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. This honour involves a special print run of half a million books - one given to every grade one student in Canada.In 2008 Scot was chosen as artist of the year by British Columbia Library Association for their Summer Reading Club.
