The Wartville Wizard

by Don Madden and Carolyn Keene

Book Overview

Wartville is being buried in trash There are soda bottles under the flowers, juice cans by the mailbox, and newspapers along the road. Every day the piles grow higher and higher. Then one tidy old man realizes he has the power to get rid of all the trash forever. Wartville will finally be cleaned up once and for all

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689716672
• ISBN13: 9780689716676
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Great for teaching kids to be environmentally responsible!

I read this book to my first grade class and they loved it! They enjoyed the fun illustrations and I loved the humerous way that it taught them to think before throwing something away. We started a classroom recycling project after reading this book, at the student's suggestion! I highly recommend this book to any person teaching a child the value of keeping our Earth clean.

The Wartville Wizard-Good story, great lesson

I recently read this book to a five-year-old little boy who absolutely loved the book. He was intrigued by the pictures (especially the lady with the garbage stuck to her rear-end)and kept finding "clues" to how the story would end. He really enjoyed the plot and the humor. The Warville Wizard spurred on great conversations about litter and pollution. The only downfall is that the book doesn't go into why you shouldn't litter other than for the asthetic value of a clean world. But overall, this was a super book.

Excellent.

Great story to use for Earth Day. Humorous. Lends itself to other classroom activites.