Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter

Though kids aren’t likely to miss the message, a sign on a buoy shouts it out: “Moral: Don’t make so much garbage!!!” Funky in every sense of the word. Winter revels in dialogue throughout (“Dere’s dis guy down in Mexico-he owes me a favor,” the captain’s boss tells him), and the artwork is equally gleeful (in Florida, elderly residents floating in inner tubes angrily shake their fists, refusing to let the barge dock). ) bombastic narrative exposes the folly of the six-month journey, as the “Cap’m” of the tug pulling the stinky barge is turned away from port after port. He chronicles this process on the inside of the jacket-a crafty double use of paper in keeping with the theme. To create the book’s innovative artwork, Red Nose Studio, aka artist Chris Sickels, photographed sets he fashioned from recycled materials, found objects, and garbage (the characters are made from acrylic clay). Learn more at message is the medium in this zany fictionalized version of the 1987 story of a garbage-laden barge that left Long Island for North Carolina after local landfills closed.

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Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than forty nonfiction picture books that promote environmental awareness and social and racial justice. In this timely picture book, bestselling author Jonah Winter and acclaimed illustrator Bob Staake explore how exclusion and walls breed intolerance, and how being different and open-minded enriches our lives and the world. But Bruce doesn't mind- it turns out the diverse world outside of Bobville is actually very beautiful. In response, the Bobs build a wall to keep Bruce, and anyone else who dares to be different, out of the city. The Bobs go about their Bob ways, until one day, to the surprise of the entire city, one resident decides he wants to do things a little differently, and live as Bruce. They agree on everything- ESPECIALLY that they don't like anyone who isn't named Bob. Welcome to Bobville, home to people only named Bob! In Bobville, the Bobs eat the same food, wear the same clothes, watch the same movies, and have the same hobbies. Here's a timely, hilarious picture book, with Seussian appeal! In Bobville, everyone is named.yup, Bob.and everything is exactly the same-until one Bob decides he'd like to be a Bruce.

Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter