Grade 1-4-An update of the 1974 title HarperCollins, not
only in content but also in terminology. In the original, the
narrator''s grandfather buried their trash on his farm and fed
garbage to the hogs. "Garbage and trash" were taken together to the
dump, or, in the case of big cities, incinerated, resulting in air
pollution. Separating trash for recycling was only a hopeful
prospect. Gone is the family farm in the 1994 edition. Children
learn in school about how things "used to be." They
內容簡介:
Follow that garbage truck!
...to the landfill to see how trash keeps piling up...to the
incinerator to see how trash can be turned into energy ... to the
recycling center to see how a soda bottle can be turned into a
flowerpot. Filled with graphs, charts, and diagrams, Where Does the
Garbage Go? explains how we deal with the problem of too much trash
and provides ideas for easy ways to be a part of the solution.
關於作者:
Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the
Let''s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as
What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr.
Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald
Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times.