It's Not Mean To Be Green

Pretend for a moment that you have the literal mind of a child. Now bend your mind around “going green.”

That’s exactly what children’s writer Jamie Kleman has done in her latest celebration of life’s important nuances, It’s Not Mean to Be Green. Illustrated by Tara Volpe, Jamie’s oft-time partner in literary adventure, the newly released book colorfully charts the misapprehensions of young Michael McDurth as he attempts to understand what it means to go green.

Initially haunted by some very odd green things in his dreams, Michael soon turns to his parents for help. They oblige and what follows is a delightful and practical look at the things even a kid can do to keep Mother Earth from being “quite blue.”

It’s Not Mean to Be Green packs a lot of useful information into a short, child-friendly rhyming format that your own munchkins will thrive on.  It also doesn’t hurt that you will want to hang some of the deliberately naive illustrations on your wall.

Just be prepared to hear about it the next time you leave the water running while brushing your teeth!

ISBN  - 978-0-557-01344-9

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