Michael Recycle is an adventure about a superhero (clad with a colander hat!) who teaches people about how recycling can help make their town more beautiful and their bodies healthier. The book is fresh and entertaining for both adults and children. It not only includes information about recycling, but also contains humorous Go Green Tips that are sure to catch your child’s attention. “Most towns offer curbside pickup for newspapers, cans, glass and certain kinds of plastic… Who knows, maybe they’ll even take your little brother or sister!” Another favorite was to take shorter showers, “unless you’re really, really smelly!”

In our home, we especially enjoy books that inspire our imagination and include a call to action. Michael Recycle included lots of ideas that could encourage all readers, young and old, to become environmental superheroes.

This story follows a little boy on a shopping trip with his mother and clearly shows his pride when he is able to hand his reusable bag to the checker and say, “Paper and Plastic no more!” Stored in the back of this book is a small reusable and recyclable bag that your own child can bring along while shopping.

500 billion plastic bags are used globally per year, and they take 1,000 years to break down when discarded. The accumulation of these bags in our landfills is staggering … not to mention the fossil fuels that are consumed in their creation. It is shocking that stores pretend that these bags are “free” when these facts are taken into consideration!

“My Bag and Me” is a fun and creative book that introduces young children to how they can be stewards to our earth and prevent further contamination our planet, one bag at a time.