Miss Fox's Class Goes Green

by Eileen Spinelli, Anne Kennedy (Illustrator)

Overview

2010 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Youth Picture Book
2010 Green Earth Book Award

When Miss Fox shows up at school riding her bicycle, Mouse asks, "Do you have a flat tire?" "No," Miss Fox tells her students. "I am going green!" Soon everyone in the class is working to keep the earth healthy. Mouse takes shorter showers (and does her singing after!); Bunny brings a cloth bag to the supermarket; and Possum turns the lights off when he goes out. And Miss Fox's simple act has ripples even beyond her own students...soon the whole school starts riding their bikes—including the principal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807551677
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Series:	Miss Fox's Class
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,108,956
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	AD470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eileen Spinelli is the author of many books for young readers including Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch and Callie Cat, Ice Skater. Eileen and her husband, author Jerry Spinelli, live in Pennsylvania.

Anne Kennedy has been illustrating children's books for twenty-seven years. Anne and her husband live in Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

2010 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature Youth Picture Book
2010 Green Earth Book Award

"The best part of this, besides Kennedy's exuberant watercolor pictures, is the way the kids consider their actions."—Booklist

"The colorful watercolor and ink illustrations go hand in hand with the lively presentation."—School Library Journal

"Through simple sentences and concepts appropriate to young children, Spinelli draws attention to the easy and fun ways children can help save their environment. The colorful pictures draw attention to the page and help illustrate the concepts presented through the text. This work is valuable in science, ecology, and community curriculum, as well as in showing how students can work together to bring about a large change."—Children's Literature

From the Publisher

K-Gr 2—Spinelli and Kennedy speak to nascent environmentalists in a lighthearted tone while still stressing why it is important to "go green." Miss Fox and her students have constructive conversations, share conservation tips, and make informed choices about using energy. The colorful watercolor and ink illustrations go hand in hand with the lively presentation.—Sarah O'Holla, Village Community School, New York City

School Library Journal

As in their earlier release, Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class (2008), Spinelli and Kennedy present a blueprint for social action. When her students wonder why Miss Fox is cycling to school, she answers that she's "going green" to cut down on pollution. The children enthusiastically embrace her new attitude: Mouse abjures the long, hot showers she loves; Squirrel tamps down his consumerist lust for a new pair of sneakers. The children adapt to their privation with enormous ease. Aside from a remark or two about "keeping our earth healthy," Miss Fox is silent about impending environmental doom, leaving the kids' commitment to green living curiously without any sense of how their individual efforts make a collective impact. Does only half the job. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews