What's Sprouting in My Trash?
A Book about Composting

The large photos were beautiful and in nice correspondence to the text. The fact that Svetlana Zhurkin (media researcher at Capstone) did this all with stock photos is pretty amazing. Also, the integrated design features for the text boxes made the visual experience even better. The writing for the......more

A decent, if basic introduction to composting for young readers.......more

I enjoyed this simple text introducing composting as part of the Earth Matters series. Readers learn how to start a compost pile, including what to use and what not to include--meat--if you want to prevent animals from digging in the compost. The book also contains a demonstration that allows reader......more

it goes well with what MT learned from school about compost.......more

Meh. I'm not impressed with some of the language: we don't want to include meat items because it might attract raccoons and they might hurt themselves in the pile? The best compost mixtures need to be perfect? The text wraps up with an anthropomorphism of Planet Earth teaching us? The general practi......more