It is a good book about ocean pollution. A group of friends go the beach and they learn that the ocean is filled with plastic waste. It also tells that plastic can be reused. The illustrations are cute.
Thanks to netgally and the publisher for the eARC

A sweet and accessible introduction to the issue of plastic pollution for children. The artwork adds extra details that can lead to talking points between children and parents / educators. The book offers limited solutions for tackling the issue but that also means that it accessible to all readers regardless of the social and economic barriers to specific actions.

I enjoyed this book. I think that it simply presented the problem of the amount of plastic that our country consumes and the reason why it is a problem (because it ends up in the oceans. I think that the illustrations are wonderful and it is a great visual presentation of the plastic problem. The introduction to all the characters int he beginning of the book was adorable, I think it is a great way for the kids to relate to which character they may be. I think that this would be a great book to read out loud to a class.

A short tale of animals finding all the plastic in their environment, and how it makes them feel.

This is told in quick and simple fashion, and can foster longer conversations and ongoing recognition of finding trash and finding (SAFE!) ways to pick it up before leaving a place, and learning not to litter and to secure trash from blowing away into the environment.

Recommended for little ones, and we need more stories on this subject done in captivating ways.

17 pages, so for our youngest little ones, and 5 stars for that age group,

Thank you to NetGalley and to Clavis Publishing for an ARC for review. Honest opinion given.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this title.

I absolutely love the idea of this book - teaching kids to take care of the ocean. The illustrations are definitely geared toward younger children but the text is boring and just not attention grabbing enough for this age group.

I had high hope for this story. I love the message, but the story wasn't fun at all and the illustrations lacked detail. I also felt like there were too many characters. The message could have been executed with just two or three characters. I did like the reusable bag activity at the end of the book, but overall, I was disappointed. I really appreciate the sentiment and the author's intention, but this is not a book my kids would ask me to read more than once.

The story is a great one to share with families and groups. It would be great for classroom sharing.
It's a very basic way to introduce recycling. Kids will be able to relate to the characters. Everyone is going to want to get a plastic bag!

I had a lot of trouble reading the book on my Kindle the pages were all messed up and I couldn't read the story in order. The message and illustrations appeared to be cute, The message is good and important but the story isn't that interesting.

#PlasticSoup#Bet Galley
CUTE story to educate children about plastic in the ocean. Loved all the bright colors and easy lesson it taught. It was a little beard to read because of you it downloaded.

A group of friends go to the beach one day and discover plastic in the ocean. These creative kids make a plan to reuse the plastic so it doesn't clutter the ocean. This story is great to teach children about recycling while keeping a cheery disposition.

This was a sweet and simple story aimed at educating children on plastic pollution in our oceans and why it's important to reduce plastic use and to recycle. I loved that it covers such an important topic but does it in a way that entertains and educates without preaching.

The book contains a valuable lesson for all ages but is probably aimed at 3-7 year olds.

Reading this book right now is kind of depressing. It's a story about a group of friends who go to the beach and find a lot of plastic floating in the water. The moral of the story is to avoid using plastic, reuse it if you can't, and choose less wasteful options.

At the moment, though, all of that has gone out the window. Everyone's so afraid of a virus that plastic use has soared, wiping out all the progress we might have made in that area. Reusable bags are banned at the grocery store; you have to get a new one every time. For this reason, I wouldn't recommend this book right now. It's liable to be confusing to kids, who are going to get one message from the book and the opposite message from the world.

Aside from that, it's not a bad story. The illustrations are okay. The translation is a little clunky, though, and the layout of the words on the page makes it difficult to tell who's speaking at times. (There's also a character nodding their speech, so I took points off for that.)

Overall, this is a decent book... but not one that's suitable for the current moment.

I really love the idea behind this book. Teaching young children about the impact we have on our planet and a simple way to help is important. The artwork is very well done, but the story isn't very fun to read and my 5 year old said it was boring.

I downloaded it on my kindle and oh my it was hard to read thus the three stars. Multiple pages of the book were all in one page. The colors are vibrant though and the drawings are great. This is a good story for kids and the importance of keeping our environment, sea life in particular, safe.

I cannot for the life of me understand why any publisher would want to release this in a Kindle version, not even just for review. If there's one thing that Amazon's crappy Kindle conversion process does with utter reliability, it's that it totally mangles anything that's not plain vanilla text. This is one of many reasons reason I refuse to do business with Amazon. The Kindle version was chopped, shredded, julienned, and sliced and diced until the story was out of order and made no sense. Even on a iPad, the images were reliably out of order and sliced in half, and not vertical so they would have at least followed the pages, but horizontally, so it was impossible to read.

Fortunately I have more than one reader app option, and in both Adobe Digital Editions and Bluefire Reader, the book was beautiful: colorful, the illustrations charming, the text brief but informative, and the story well done. The story, written by Nederlander Judith Koppens, and Andy Engel, and illustrated by Nynke Mare Talsma, whose middle name appropriately means 'sea', is of course, the appalling amount of plastic that's in use today, far too much of which gets into the ocean.

It not only gets there in the form of bags and bottles and other large items, it also gets there - and this understandably isn't covered in this story - in the form of micro plastics, some of which is even now probably in the table salt you have in your kitchen. It's a disgrace, a menace, and a health hazard for every living thing, and everything we can do to educate and warn about this is to be commended, which is why I commend this as a worthy and educational read.

This picture book is a great way to introduce students to pollution. Through the use of animals, the author takes on the challenge of educating students about the huge problem with our oceans. It is through this story that young readers will learn about the pollution problem and be challenged to make the change that other generations have failed to make.

Plastic soup, educated children on pollution. While swimming they discover plastic bags, bottles....
They see what harm it is causing the ocean animals.
Informative

What a cute and informative book for kids learning to save the planet! It's simple enough for them to learn the dangers of using plastic and the harm it can do to our environment if we don't try to reduce and reuse.

I would definitely recommend it to any parent wanting to teach their children the importance of recycling, reusing and reducing. The illustrations were great and the animals in the story were super cute as well.

The animal friends are having a fun day at the beach. Frog and fox are diving under the waves when frog comes up with something on his head. He looks like a sea monster, but it’s really a ripped plastic bag. Frog wants to know why a plastic bag is floating in the ocean. This is my favorite line in the book because plastic should not be in our oceans!
The animals end up getting plastic bags from the trash to use to fly as kites. This is supposed to be an example of reusing. The book ends with a project of decorating a canvas bag with a leftover cork.
Problem...
It’s not easy to fly a plastic bag like a kite and scavenging from a trash bin is not cool.


It is a simple story to introduce children to water pollution and little changes that can make a big difference, but the book fell short for me.

Plastic Soup is a sweet little book to introduce kids to the importance of recycling and the negative effects of littering. The illustrations are really bright and cheerful. The topic is heavy (what happens to animals when there's litter?) but is presented in a very kid-friendly way. It opened up some great discussions from my son! Maybe a few too many characters, and a strange sudden change in plot at one point, but overall it's great.
I also enjoyed the activity at the end of the book!

I requested and received an e-ARC of this book from NetGalley and Clavis Publishing in exchange for an honest review.