I really loved this book that starts kids off with protecting and helping the Earth and our environment.

Such an important topic for little ones! This book would make a great addition to any children’s classroom or school! We loved the illustrations and the great information!

A million ways to be green, is it right? is it wrong?

A lovely simple picture book with pretty illustrations, a fine addition to an EYFS class library for children to explore.

What Does It Mean to Be Green?
author: Rana DiOrio
illustrator: Addy Rivera Sondo
Sourcebooks Kids, Little Pickle Press
What a wonderful book this is to teach children about the importance of taking care of our planet! What Does It Mean to Be Green? is a simple introductory book t to this topic, with beautiful, engaging illustrations by Addy Rivera Sondo. The children featured in the book are diverse and happily actively engaged in the process of being green.
DiOrio describes first what being green is not, then leads into an overview of what it does mean. Areas covered include power and water conservation, fresh and local food, transportation, reusing, trash pick-up, recycling and composting, A nice variety of locations that children will relate to are featured. The narrative includes settings such as park, playground, farmer's market, beach, home, garden, and farm. A summary of the "5 R's" adds more detail for zero-waste living. These are presented in a way that allows for discussion between children and adults.
This book is appealing to both the target audience of children, as well as adults. I highly recommend it for school and public libraries, homes, and gifts. It would really be a nice addition to the little free libraries that are popular now.
Thank you to Net Galley and Sourcebook Kids - Little Pickle Press for the advance reader's copy of this book and the opportunity to provide my unbiased review.
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This was really cute! I absolutely loved the art. This book does a great job of showing children small things they can do to help shrink their family's carbon footprint.

I am a fan of this series for its diversity of images and thorough explanations of the subject matter, but I found this book to not be up to the usual 5 star standard I'd usually give a book from this series. The illustrations were as strong as ever, but this felt more like a quick glance at the actual topic of being green. Usually this series would explore the subject with more depth and diversity to develop a strong understanding with an abundance of resources. This book felt more like a narrowed lens on the subject from the point of view of people with a specific lifestyle, (i.e. families with a house and private property.) I would have liked to see a more diverse set of examples of what it means to be green for people in different places/with different lifestyles e.g. taking transit instead of a car, instead of just "walking to the park." There was a brief mention of types of energy, but no explanation about why we need to reduce plastics, and what the actions we need to take will do..

This was a wonderful book! The illustrations were beautiful and went very well with the text on each page. The message was written in a very kid-friendly way so that a family could share this book and see if they are "being green" in their life. Our family enjoyed this book thanks to a preview from NetGalley.

I have the original what does it mean to be green a book. This book is very similar to that first one and was slightly updated. It has improved illustrations and text.

This is a wonderful book for both young and old. The author begins by telling kids what "green" is not. Is it not being good to plants? No. Does it mean feeling sick in the car? No. Does it mean looking like a frog? a pickle? an alien? No way! Then what is it?

It means being a caring and responsible citizen of our planet and doing a variety of things to help our world sustain itself. Kids can be mindful to use power in their home only when it's needed, eat locally grown food, pick up trash and put it in the garbage, compost scraps of food to fertilize their garden and draw on both sides of their paper instead of one, just to cite a few.

This educational and empowering book shares many ways that we can be guardians of our Earth and keep her in tip top shape. It's up to everyone to do what they can to make this happen. The illustrations are wonderfully done and very kid-friendly. The author includes tips at the end of the book:

"What You Can Do" - Refuse: Say no to what you don't need. Reduce: Use less. Donate or sell what you no longer need. Reuse: Switch disposable items for reusable alternatives. Find new ways to use your old things. Recycle: Sort your waste correctly and minimize what you send to the landfill. Rot: Compost your household waste or participate in a composting program for organic waste.

This book is a delightful introduction to the important concepts and practices of "being green" and I highly recommend it.

This book does a good job of giving different definitions of what green means before it gives the details about how to help the environment. I especially like the tips and advice at the back of the book.

What Does It Mean to Be Green explores the ways in which children and their families can better conserve energy/materials and help the environment. Done through a series of beautiful illustrations, DiOrio tells multiple steps to "be green" and shows them in a child friendly way. The only issue I took with the book is that many of the examples in the book are things that adults would need to take part in too so the child does not have the full power to "be green" that the book would have them believe they have. That said, children are our future and hopefully will take this information in.

This is a cute children's book on how to be more environmentally friendly. I really liked the graphics and it was engaging and kept the interest of my children. There was a lot of diversity in the book in ethnicity and a few disabilities, so I think many children could pick up the book and find a character that is like them, that they could relate to. The ideas listed to be more green, are mainly simple and easy things to integrate. Some would require more parental involvement, such as making a rain barrel to collect rainwater for watering the garden instead of the tap, but some, like wearing the same pajamas multiple times in a row, does not.