What's Sprouting in My Trash?: A Book about Composting by Esther Porter
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The large photos were beautiful and in nice correspondence to the text. The fact that Svetlana Zhurkin (media researcher at Capstone) did this all with stock photos is pretty amazing. Also, the integrated design features for the text boxes made the visual experience even better. The writing for the how-to presentation was clear and concise, but also with a sense there is a personal voice behind it.
Why only 2 stars? For a book like this to be in hard cover, and four-color printing it needs to do support more than one approach to the transaction. This would be a great read-aloud Pre-K-1, but not much for a kid to just sit and read. Because it seems to be designed for a read-aloud only, and because each page has about 20 words on it, the compulsory index in the back is ridiculous.
Overall it's a shame, because as a set of components (by author, media researcher, designer) this should be a good book to read. But when looked at as a whole it just doesn't deliver.
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