Book Description
for Our Green City by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Colleen Larmour
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
“Welcome to our green city ... Being green means we take care of all living things.” This purposeful book about green practices at home and in a community has an interactive element for young children. Each double-page spread reveals a different scene from the fictional city and briefly discusses a specific aspect of environmentally friendly practices (e.g., transportation, energy, gardening and farming, green architecture, etc.). The narrative on each page ends with a question that invites readers to pore over the bright, energetic mixed-media illustrations showing scenes of life in the city and its diverse residents. Most questions are seek-and-find (“How many wheels can you count? … Who is hiding from the raindrops?”), although a few are open-ended, inviting discussion (“What should we do on this windy day?”). (Ages 2-5)
CCBC Choices 2023. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023. Used with permission.