English author and illustrator Lauren Child, created world famous books about big brother Charlie, and vivacious little sister Lola, which are now adding an Eco friendly themed book. Coinciding with World Environment Day (June 5th) and Recycle Now Week, the latest book is entitled, Look after your Planet.
The book looks at recycling issues and helps children understand why it matters to recycle. Plus, if you're reading to your kids (or if you just like Charlie and Lola!), Charlie and Lola will absolutely, certainly make it more fun! Charlie and Lola encourage recycling in a kid friendly way, "If we just threw everything away then we'd all maybe be completely buried under a massive, huge pile of rubbish." Plus, the dog's name is Sizzles, fantastically funny!
Puffin books, in celebration of the book, is launching a school recycling competition where students can win a £1000 green revamp for their school/nursery! Runners up prizes are:
- a real tree
- love from Charlie and Lola
- exclusive class trip to the Natural History Museum
40,000 competition flyers have been sent out to schools throughout England and Ireland and registration can be done online. Registration auntomatically gives you Charlie and Lola's very completely special recycling pack including:
- extremely good recycling tips
- very fun lesson plans
- especially special acitivity sheets
- Charlie and Lola's very own tree counter
The counter helps students keep track of what they've recycled and the more they do, the more leaves they get for their counter. My students loved stuff like this when I worked in public schools (it gets them away from the math and journal writing they didn't want to do!), so I hope this succeeds in the UK too! After they're done collecting leaves from their recycling efforts, they can enter to win the school makeover or other runner up prizes!
The Charlie and Lola website offers links, news, registration (for the Puffin recycling program), ways students can recycle (with a clip of Lola, of course, talking about recycling!), a recycling game, and "your results" page where you can post class photos to the tree gallery!
Yes, I played the recycling game, which is a lot harder than it looks (I only garnered 240 points on my first try! Embarrassing but true!) I like that Lola says, "never mind" if you don't get points or "thank you" if you do get points. Manners...I was beginning to think kids weren't going to learn those anymore!
Looking after your planet is "easy-peasy" so you must must must do all that you absolutely can!
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