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16th out of 105 books
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67 voters
Michael Recycle
Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, Michael Recycle tells the adventures of a young superhero whose power allows him to teach people about recycling. After cleaning up a town, the people declare: "To Michael Recycle! The green-caped crusader, our super-green hero, the planet's new savior!"
Hardcover, 28 pages
Published
March 25th 2008
by Worthwhile Books
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Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel is a great story about recycling and keeping the Earth green. Michael Recycle a superhero who wears a colander on his head flew to the town of Abberdoo-Rimey. Here he landed and looked to the town to help clean up and recycle so that they are able to enjoy fresh air and clean water. The town pitches in and cleans up so that the town is sparkling and they can see the blue skies and water. Now they never waste and everyone is always happy.
Ellie Bethel wrote a fabul...more
Ellie Bethel wrote a fabul...more
Michael Recycle is a green caped crusader here to save our world! This is a wonderful book with great facts on how we can help save our planet. Beautifully illustrated the authors have helped make the idea of recycling fun for children through its rhyming verses. As Michael helps the town clean up he helps make the lazy residents see that recycling is not as boring as they thought it would be.
We used this story in year 3 when talking to the class about being environmentally aware, leading to a d...more
We used this story in year 3 when talking to the class about being environmentally aware, leading to a d...more
Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel and Illustrated by Alexander Colombo, is another book in this genre. This is the story of Michael Recycle, a flying, caped protagonist with a colander as protective headwear, who battles a green crusade and encourages a town of lazy, dirty and wasteful inhabitants to get their act together and go green. They start recycling paper, cans, plastic etc. The vocabulary is definitely more British; think rubbish and litter. The Illustrations are comic; bright smiley char...more
May 06, 2012
Julie
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I used to read this book as part of workshop on packaging and recycling that I used to facilitate with with Year 1's in my role previous role as education officer. The book tells the story of town full of wasteful lazy people who litter and certainly don't recycle. Michael Recycle arrives and teaches the people to clean up their act recycling paper, plastic and cans and putting their rubbish in the bin. In the end the town is clean, bright and colourful and the people love Micheal Recycle.
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Ask a child to take on the role of Michael Recycle and encourage other children to interview him about what happened in the story.
Ask children to make a persuasive poster encouraging others to recycle and look after our world. -- older grades unit with types of writing
Write a set of instructions which teach people one way of looking after the environment (e.g. 'How to save water' or 'How to recycle your rubbish').
Could record students and create commercials/shows that identify types of ways to...more
Ask children to make a persuasive poster encouraging others to recycle and look after our world. -- older grades unit with types of writing
Write a set of instructions which teach people one way of looking after the environment (e.g. 'How to save water' or 'How to recycle your rubbish').
Could record students and create commercials/shows that identify types of ways to...more
Science content about recycling is included in this book as well as it being a literature book as well. The recycling tips in the back certainly make it a content book. I would read this book with any age in elementary school.
The illustrations in this book are amazing. I would point them out specifically to the students to get them thinking about how they could make their illustrations better.
This book shows a lot of writer's voice. I would point out the specific spots to students, while I rea...more
The illustrations in this book are amazing. I would point them out specifically to the students to get them thinking about how they could make their illustrations better.
This book shows a lot of writer's voice. I would point out the specific spots to students, while I rea...more
This is a perfect book to read around Earth day or at any time of the year to remind children to keep our planet clean. It's fun rhyming dialogue is engaging to students while also reinforcing a lesson at the same time. It makes children feel as though they too can be superheroes who clean up trash around them or put cans in the recycling bin instead of the landfills. To me, it is a less profound form of the Lorax but still teaches children that they have power to make a significant difference i...more
1. What a great story. This books show students they can have fun with words, the font, and size of the letters. It is a creative way to write a story or book. Each page has great illustrations to go along with the text. The text, even though it is a different font and sizes, is still easy to read.
2. This book could be used when having your students write a story about a certain topic, but a color or silliness to it. Recycling is a serious topic, but it can be presented in a fun way.
2. This book could be used when having your students write a story about a certain topic, but a color or silliness to it. Recycling is a serious topic, but it can be presented in a fun way.
Michael Recycle is a story about a boy who becomes the superhero for keeping the world environmentally green. The book is all about ways to recycle and how to clean up the Earth. This boy takes full responsibility to lead this movement and gets the help of the people to join him.
This is good for text-set because it shows ways we can be environmentally clean and take care of our Earth. What can we do to keep our world clean? How can we take responsibility for our earth?
This is good for text-set because it shows ways we can be environmentally clean and take care of our Earth. What can we do to keep our world clean? How can we take responsibility for our earth?
Now this book, unlike the others I've just added, should be the one with the four and five star ratings.
This, unlike the others, is an awesome rhyming book that sounds great read out loud. The illustrator did a fantastic job - Julia was excited to get to the next page and couldn't stop herself from flipping back to past pages also.
Michael is a great character and this is an awesome way to get kids into recycling or to keep them interested.
Definitely recommend!
This, unlike the others, is an awesome rhyming book that sounds great read out loud. The illustrator did a fantastic job - Julia was excited to get to the next page and couldn't stop herself from flipping back to past pages also.
Michael is a great character and this is an awesome way to get kids into recycling or to keep them interested.
Definitely recommend!
Oct 18, 2012
Emily Farmer
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
elementary age children, 2-3rd grade
Shelves:
fantasy
I really liked Michael Recycle because it was a cute way to talk about recycling. Michael Recycle a superhero who wears a colander on his head and flew to the town of Abberdoo-Rimey. Here he landed and looked to the town to help clean up and recycle so that they are able to enjoy fresh air and clean water. The town pitches in and cleans up so that the town is sparkling and they can see the blue skies and water. Now they never waste and everyone is always happy. The illustrations are hilarious if...more
This is a great book to use to teach about the importance of recycling. In the story, there is a town that is disguistingly filthy because of the amount of trash that they have laying around. Michael comes to the town with a plan that will help all of their citizens. All of the citizens are working together to recycle their materials and clean uo their city.
This book is a great way to introduce a recycling unit. It is illustrated nicely with pictures and does a great job with rhyming. There is a lot of rhythmn and voice pitch in this book. I used this book to introduce a recycle unit and would use it again.
Keywords: recycle, town, working together, tips on recycling, going green, littering
Keywords: recycle, town, working together, tips on recycling, going green, littering
I absolutely loved this book! I recently did a unit on Earth Day with first graders and I am so upset that I didn't find this book before I taught! I think that recycling and all the concepts of Earth Day can be taught to all grades, K-5. It is a very important thing to learn, and many kids already have prior knowledge of it! Great book!
Colorful, fun book about recycling. I was a little disappointed that the hero, Michael Recycle shows up briefly, disappears to let the town clean up it's mess and then comes back to inspect. I wish he had stuck around and helped clean up. But it was a good book and had lots of great tips on going green.
While this book was very visually stimulating, employed a catchy rhyme scheme, and was characteristically simple, the books plot seemed extremely politically charged. It is important to teach children about waste and the health of our planet, but this "go-green" picture book, was a little too biased.
Clever illustrations pair with a rhyming text to chronicle the tale of Michael Recycle, a young man who makes it his mission to help people in the town of Aberdoo-Rimey keep from growing "rotten and slimy" by recycling. Tips for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle can be found at the end of the text.
Excellent reading for Earth Day! Recycling is so important and this book does a great job of introducing children to the concept and why it is important. This could be extended for an excellent school-wide or community learning project for the students to create and participate in!
May 01, 2012
Angela
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
recycle,
solution-to-a-problem,
picture-book,
little-boy,
lesson,
informational,
enviorment,
childrens
This is a great book to teach students about the importance of recycleing. A good time to read this book is on Earthday. Michael a young boy becomes a cape crusader to help save his town and help others to understand the important ofrecycle. This is a godd read aloud k-4th.
This story is Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel. This story can be used in Kindergarten-2 grade classrooms. This book can be used for lessons on recycling, the environment, conservation of resources, and pollution. This book can also be used for lessons on rhyming and poetry.
The author's craft in this picture book about the importance of recycling, brought a few chuckles from a 10 year old. I read this book on Earth Day and it was integrated nicely. I love the snazzy illustrations and way the font is spread across the pages.
A good rhyming book telling children why they should recycle. It's a fictional book about a "super hero" named michael that goes to a town that is filthy. He tells them why they should recyclce and the people who live in the town end up keeping it clean.
I think this would be a fun read aloud for a class who is looking for a good environmental book. It will not profoundly change your life but it is nice to see more books that are caring about our world. Grades 1+
Michael recycle is a great book to share with any group of kids! This is an easy book to read and it presents a lot if information about recycling in a way that children will understand and be interested in!
Beautiful illustrations! I work at a "green" elementary school, and we're always looking for new ways to keep the Earth happy in my class. My kids loved the rhyming and the conservation tips at the back of the book.
This is a really cute book about a new type of super-hero. Michael Recycle teaches society about the importance of recycling. This is a great cross-curricular book. There are even tips for being green in the back.
I though this book was creative and cute, sort of Dr. Suess-esque, but it wasn't QUITE the Lorax. It would be great to teach K-5 about recycling, but older students would have more fun with a hands on project.
Apparently I missed something because here is another one I was not a big fan of that has a four star average.
Just felt ... preachy. As much as I loved the whole "green" theme it just didn't work for me.
Just felt ... preachy. As much as I loved the whole "green" theme it just didn't work for me.
This could be used to help students understand the importance of recycling. Students could brainstorm ways to help their community become more clean and areas in their neighborhood that they could "save."
A fun book about a super heroe that helps save the environment. The story gives the children ideas about how they can help the environment. Also, as a class we can do our own helping the environment project.
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