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Presents information about using materials that people throw away, including empty soda bottles and cans, milk cartons, cereal boxes, and bottlecaps, to make Scrapkins, new things that are fun and useful.
A monster-themed activity book about recycling trash into toys and art projects! Welcome to Scrap City, home of an inventive tribe of creatures called ScrapKins. Using materials that people throw away (empty plastic bottles, cardboard tubes, milk cartons, and cereal boxes) these creatures make new things that are useful?the ultimate recyclers.?? With character profiles of the ScrapKins and instructions to make all kinds of puppets, instruments, and toys out of everyday items, this activity book (also featuring mazes, word scrambles, and comics) fosters creativity and encourages eco-friendliness. *This is the 2nd EDITION with a BONUS of 20 more pages including project patterns/templates, character drawing pages and more!*
A monster-themed activity book about recycling trash into toys and art projects! Welcome to Scrap City, home of an inventive tribe of creatures called ScrapKins. Using materials that people throw away (empty soda bottles and cans, milk cartons, cereal boxes, and bottlecaps) these creatures make new things that are useful—the ultimate recyclers. With character profiles of the ScrapKins and instructions to make all kinds of puppets, instruments, and toys out of everyday items, this activity book (also featuring mazes, word scrambles, and comics) fosters creativity and encourages eco-friendliness. A Christy Ottaviano Book
What can you make from junk you throw away? Join the ScrapKins, a crafty monster family who live in a recycling center, as they give step by step instructions to turn towel tubes and milk cartons into pirate ships, bird feeders, dinosaurs and more! Share a project with your kids with true DIY fun at home! Perfect for teachers, school classrooms, afterschool programs, babysitters, caretakers, homeschool, parties. MADE IN USA For Ages 6-9 years "Scrapkins was an exciting way for our students to actually experience the benefits of recycling while also using their imaginations to create the most wonderful art projects! Our students looked forward to art with Mr. Yanish and were highly invested in the artistic process. The Scrapkins program connects well with our first grade curriculum and gave our students another outlet to express themselves at school. It was wonderful to see the looks of pride and accomplishment as all of our students successfully completed a project." Brianna Berkowitz, 1st Grade Teacher Lefferts Garden Charter School Brooklyn, NY
A shark and a robot are unlikely friends. But in this hilarious young graphic novel series, what makes you different makes for an EPIC friendship. Can a shark and a robot really be friends? What makes us different also makes for EPIC friendship in this hilarious new graphic series, perfect for reluctant readers, and fans of Narwhal and Jelly and Bad Guys. Shark loves water. Bot short circuits if he goes near water! Shark recites poetry. Bot recites facts. Can these two really be friends? They're both a little awkward... They both love comics... And just wait til you see their dance moves when they confront a playground bully. Readers won't just laugh along, they'll identify with real-life issues of making friends, accepting differences, and dealing with bullies in the best way possible.
There's only one thing more frightful, or funny, than a band of pirate chickens: their feared and feathered leader, Redfoot. Pick up Pirate Chicken: All Hens on Deck for a laugh out loud story time! Lily is no ordinary chicken. She dreams of a life off the farm where she can put her grand plans into action. Her wish is granted when pirates recruit her and her fellow chickens and whisk them away to the open seas. Soon, Lily has taken charge and becomes captain of an all-chicken crew. But when Lily faces a mutiny, will she change her ways, or be forced to squawk the plank?
Perfect for Halloween, this is a hilarious story about a boy who follows in his father's footsteps . . . in his own monstrously unique way. Just before midnight, on the night of a full moon, a young barber stays out past his bedtime to go to work. Although his customers are mostly regulars, they are anything but normal-after all, even monsters need haircuts. Business is steady all night, and this barber is prepared for anything with his scissors, rotting tonic, horn polish, and stink wax. It's a tough job, but someone's got to help these creatures maintain their ghoulish good looks.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! In their first collaboration since the Newbery Medal- and Caldecott Honor-winning Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson deliver a poignant and timely new picture book that's sure to be an instant classic. When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true--she's finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their neighborhood, past the crowded bus stop, the fenced-off repair shop, and the panadería, until they arrive at the Laundromat, where Carmela finds a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow its white fluff away, her brother tells her she has to make a wish. If only she can think of just the right wish to make . . . With lyrical, stirring text and stunning, evocative artwork, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson have crafted a moving ode to family, to dreamers, and to finding hope in the most unexpected places.
