Review, The Washington Post, March 21, 2010: Cautionary? Yes. Review, The New York Times Book Review, November 7, 2010: glorious visual treat. Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April 2010: acked with visual delights. Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, January 15, 2010: A stinky story never seemed so sweet. Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, January 11, 2010: Funky in every sense of the word.
Starred Review, School Library Journal, January 2010: This title should be a part of every elementary school ecology unit. Hilarious? You betcha!" and the New York Times Book Review raved, " glorious visual treat." The Washington Post said, "Cautionary? Yes. Here Comes the Garbage Barge was a New York Times Best Illustrated book of 2010, a Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year, and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. What did they do? Enter the Garbage Barge! Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created. There was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. Illustrations.īook Synopsis This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, "Pee-yew!" Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book (subtly) drives home the message that we can't produce unlimited trash without consequences.
(Feb.About the Book Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious work (subtly) drives home the message that we can't produce unlimited trash without consequences. 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). The 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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