Plastic Sucks!

This book’s subtitle, ‘YOU can make a difference’, highlights the positive tone prevalent throughout this child-friendly, accessible guide to the history, dangers and solutions relating to the world’s plastic problem. The author, musician and environmental activist Dougie Poynter, is a member of the band McFly, co-author of The Dinosaur That Pooped titles, a massive nature enthusiast and a campaigner against microplastics. All in all, he is well qualified to write this lively, informative ‘Guide For Children Who Want To Make A Difference’.

The author addresses young people directly throughout, in a contemporary, friendly tone, whilst always maintaining a focus on the important issues. There is a lot of information here, but it is broken up by bright info graphics with panels, tables, graphs, lists, photographs, facts and tips for action, all in bold fonts against striking black or neon green backgrounds. Information on the history, usefulness and danger of plastic is interspersed with interviews with inspirational individuals who are already making a difference and tips for young people on how to act now to cut down on plastic use.

This lively, inspirational guide, with its encouraging, positive tone, is a book for these urgently eco-aware times, focussing on the big environmental issues, always emphasising that no action is too small to make a difference.