Michael Recycle Paperback – 20 Jan. 2008

I bought this book to perform at my class assembly alongside facts and figures about recycling. The children in my class love the story which is told in rhyme and they love the characters.

Lovely story to get recycling across

I bought both Michael Recycle and Litterbug Doug, and they have been a hit with my 3yr old. The writing flows well and the illustrations are colourful, busy and attractive.

Great product, very useful in the classroom and the children really loved it. However, I did feel that it was over priced and coupled with packaging it cost me over €20 to get this book to be sent to Ireland. This would make me think twice about buying again from this company.

Brilliant

Good rhyming text tells the story of Michael Recycle, a flying caped crusader with a colander on his head who fights for the green cause and encourages a dirty town of lazy and wasteful people to clean up their act, recycling paper, cans and plastic and so on: as a result the town looks far better. The town depicted consists of colourful houses, and as this book is published on this side of the Atlantic, although there's one discreet use of the word trash, the words rubbish and litter are more obvious. The pictures are fun, populated by bright cheerily-drawn characters with interesting expressions, Michael Recycle is an approachable boy-like character, and the book should appeal to all those parents who approve of the `LazyTown' ethic. With it's simple message, it's perfect for Foundation stage children in particular (2-4) and would sit well on a green classroom shelf with Charlie and Lola's Look After Your Planet and George Saves the World by Jo Readman, all three of which are nicely different despite the same message.

My son loves this book. Great qulity and great price. Really good to get kids to understand the world around them.

my 3 year old and 4 year old sons absolutely love this book and I have to read it every night for their bed time story. It is topical but also features a superhero which every little child can relate to. Since having this book my boys watch me and ask me what I am recycling and tell me off if I forget!!!!!!!!!!! Well done Ellie!