McKinney Library Kid's Catalog

Grandma sews an environmentally friendly party dress for her granddaughter that can be recycled as she grows up.

The doorman at Curious George's apartment complex is having a recycling contest, giving him the opportunity to help clean up the planet.

After discovering that a green sea turtle was harmed by plastic in the ocean, twin mice Sydney and Simon come up with a creative campaign to increase recycling and reduce the amount of trash created in their home, school, and town.

With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

In pictures without words, the reader follows the journey of one brown paper bag from a tree in the forest through the years it is used by three generations of one family until eventually the old bag becomes the container in which a new tree is planted.

"Grace can do a lot of things...but can she save the planet? Or at the very least, can she help her best friend Mimi get her favorite stuffed animal back? Lots of exciting things are happening to Grace and her friends. Most exciting of all, Mimi's older cousin Gwen is coming to stay with Mimi, and Miss Lois's class is GOING GREEN! For their 'green' project, Grace and Mimi aim to inspire their friends and classmates to conserve plastic bottles. But...

Francisco extraña a su pueblo en El Salvador, y especialmente volar una cometa con sus amigos, pero Mamá no puede permitirse el lujo de comprar una cometa, por lo que reúne a los materiales alrededor de su edificio de apartamentos descartado y hace su propia, lo que llama la atención del dueño de una tienda y conduce a un proyecto maravilloso. Francisco misses his village in El Salvador, and especially flying a kite with his friends, but Mamá...