Get Your Hands On Here Comes The Garbage Barge! Assembled By Jonah Winter Offered As Digital Edition

on the truegarbage emergency in Islip, NY, this is the story of themonth,thousandmile fiasco that was the New York Garbage Barge, While the illustrations are unique and the story is interesting, picture book format is not a great fit for this story, The story is not suited to early readers of any kind, The author would have done better to fill in the blanks a little more and make it an illustrated chapter book, In March of, a barge left Islip, Long Island, hauling almost thirtytwo hundred tons of trash, It's destination North Carolina, where it had been prearranged for some farmers to bury the garbage on their farms, BUT, when the barge arrived at those sunny shores, the deal had fallen through, and the rubbish was not welcome there, The same story was told in New Orleans, and any other of the port cities the barge visited, Fordays, the garbage barge floated around, looking for a place to land,

If you think this seems like strange fodder for a children's book, you'd be right, It is weird but it's also wacky and wonderful, This little slice of recent history is told with heaping doses of humor, How can you not laugh about something like this Red Nose Studio's strange blend of modelmaking and claymationlike puppets suit Winter's tale perfectly,

Just look at these expressive faces:





And, I love all the little details, like these sisters being dressed alike:



This is a fun read for everyone, though the younger set may have trouble believing it actually happened it seems so farfetched now.


I'm having trouble getting over the fact that a barge filled with garbage is so much more welltraveled than I am! I was not expecting to like Here Comes the Garbage Barge! as much as I did.
It's a fictionalized and humorous account of the city of Islip's garbage problem and the barge the city thought would solve the problem,

It seems the people of Islip, New York make way too much garbage and didn't know what to do with it anymore, So in, the people of Islip had the brilliant idea of sending their garbage somewhere else, In comes the Garbage Barge to haul their problems away, . . except no one wants their trash either, And after,someodd miles and nearlymonths at sea, the garbage barge returned to New York and the garbage ended back in Islip,

All in all, it sounds like a pretty cut and dry story, but the author did such a great job, There's a moblike character who always "knows a guy" to take the garbage the descriptions of the locations are spoton and funny i, e. , "Florida: The Sunshine State, home of alligators, beautiful beaches, oranges and grandparents" and the text and language is lighthearted, descriptive, and funny,

And the illustrations! They weren't illustrations, but photography of works of art, It reminded me of a stopmotion movie, The people were made of clay, and the rest of the props and scenery were made of real junk and garbage, I've never seen anything like it in a book, It was fascinating.

Here Comes the Garbage Barge! can be enjoyed by elementaryaged children to adults, Aside from the interesting and enjoyable story, I like that the book can lead to a discussion on recycling and environmentalism, It wins my stamp of approval,

This New York Times Best Illustrated Book is a mostly true and completely stinky story that is sure to make you say, “Peeyew!” Teaching environmental awareness has become a national priority, and this hilarious book subtly drives home the message that we cant produce unlimited trash without consequences.


Before everyone recycled, . .

There was a town that had,tons of garbage and nowhere to put it,

What did they do

Enter the Garbage Barge!

Amazing art built out of junk, toys, and found objects by Red Nose Studio makes this the perfect book for Earth Day or any day, and photos on the back side of the jacket show how the art was created.
While the illustrations in this one are really neat, I found the story itself to be a little akward,

In this highly fictionalized tale of an incident that happened in, the main character, Cap'm Duffy, who talks like a pirate, sets out with a barge full of garbage that Islip on Long Island no longer wants or can put in their landfill.


Part of the reason I don't care for this book is because of the weird descriptions of the places they try and ump the garbage, the weird accent of Cap'm Duffy who is supposed to be from New Orleans, and the shady character od Gino Stroffolino.


The only redeeming quality of this book is the illustrations and the message which is unfortunately spelled out as "the moral" on the end paper, Let me proceed carefully here,. Here Comes the Garbage Barge is based on the true story of the barge loaded with Long Island garbage that meandered up and down the Atlantic coast, rejected at every port from New York to Belize, during the summer of.
. Jonah Winter is a terrific author of children's nonfiction, I would not and will not assemble a school library without his biographies of Sandy Koufax , Dizzy Gillespie , Sonia Sotomayor , Diego Rivera , and others,

There's a big BUT coming read about it on Pink Me: sitelink typepad. com/pinkme/ Per my second graders: I liked it because of the illustrations, I liked it because it teaches a lesson to not make so much garbage and don't make others clean it up, I loved it because when he traveled,miles, he went to different places like Mexico, Brooklyn and Texas, I wasn't sure what to think at first but then it became pretty funny and brought grins amp chuckles, while still sticking to its apparent intention and point, Still closer to/but easier to round up,

And once again, like many of the short childrens picture books with instuctional or persuasive intent, it was harder for me to rate, A couple in the past I've been in awe of but that's much less common with these, I don't get to see the reaction of the intended audience and that's really what it's all about, I do, however enjoy and value the experience of reading and knowing them, Probablyfor the story andfor the claymation style illustrations which are not my favorite, I think it is a unique story of thegarbage pile loaded on a boat barge in NY and sent in amonth mission of stink around the ocean looking for a spot to land.


Note: There is a good read aloud on StorylineOnline “The Garbage Barge” is a great read to talk about cleaning up the environment and being problem solvers with how we can do that.
My students loved this read aloud this week, Afterwards we made a list of things why it is important to clean up our environment and then a problem solving list of how we can do that and help out around the community.
Fun read aloud with older students, It is a longer book so students need a good attention span, YouTube has an interesting video on how the book was made: sitelink youtube. com/watchvRKagL . I showed this first to the students, Make sure you use your New York accent when reading the story, There's one line where the New Yorker says, "forgetaboutit" but the spelling is funky so I completely misread it, The kids laughed the hardest at that, . . I sounded like a baby gurgling, You can also use a crusty sailor voice so it is a fun read aloud, Make sure to tell students it's based on a real story, I have had some interesting conversations about recycling because I live in Taiwan and their recycling program is incredible about the only thing I throw away is tissue paper and tape.
Everything else is recycleddays a week, Ironically, when the garbage truck in Taiwan shows up it plays a similar tune that the ice cream truck used to play when it came to my neighborhood in the U.
S. in thes Well maybe not a similar tune I don't think the ice cream truck's tune was Beethoven like the Taiwan garbage truck but the dinging bells are similar.


If you don't get into reading this book and ham it up, it will be a long, dull read aloud, You have to have fun with it, One teacher told me that the illustrations reminded her of the creepy Lady Elaine on Mr, Rogers Neighborhood. Ha! Do you remember her
A great little nonfiction story about part of our Trash Crisis, treated in an amusing way, Suitable for independent readers, it covers the Great Wandering Garbage Barge of, in which the town of Islip attempted to find a taker for their tons of trash via water shipping.
. . but no town, state, or country would take it, sitelink newsday. com/longisl The trashy subject and the marionette/paper mache illustrations will catch the interest of kids up through the ooky ages, and the history and environment tiein is suitable for class combination.


Pair with Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F, Yezerski. Read tord

andth graders, Colorful but quirky illustrations. Based on a true story of tons of garbage that leaves NY inand then is refused to land in domestic and foreign ports, It ends up sailing around for overmonths before finally returning to New York for disposal, The story itself was not very compelling to my listeners, It did lead to a good discussion on recycling and how we can reduce waste, I didn't particularly like the use of nonstandard spelling to convey the accents of the characters, Sometimes it's done well, but here it felt hammy,

It's a good story, though, I remember the first time I thought hard about where all of our garbage goes, I imagined that in my lifetime the whole world would be one big garbage dump, Here's hoping I was just a dramatic child, Love it. I'm old enough to remember the real story and think Winter and Red Nose Studio have done a fantastic job with it, Reading it aloud was a blast, Superb! texttoclass connection
This story is a great lesson for kids when it comes to realistic nonfiction, Not only does it tell a story of travel and adventure, but it also incorporates historical practices of garbage disposal of large cities, and even how the environment is so important to take care of when it comes to this much trash in our communities.
I would use this as an opportunity to talk about recycling, trash disposal, and how different parts of the country use their resources, like a barge, to transport and protect their neighborhoods against the least amount of waste possible.
Great lesson for science, or even life skills, We could start our own recycling plant in the classroom and use the bins daily for sorting trash, This is a oneofakind cautionary tale about the repercussions of the "throw away without thinking" mentality, Throughout the story, Cap'm Duffy St, Pierre, of New Orleans, travels with a barge full of garbage from Long Island, New york all the way to Belize, with many stops along the way, Colorful colloquial language and illustrative text tell the true story of the Break of Dawn barge and the tons and tons of trash literally that it hauled up and down the coast.
The illustrations are photographs of threedimensional figures created by sitelinkJonah Winter at Red Nose Studio,

I'd recommend this to anyone from first to fifth grade since some of the vocabulary discusses court orders and legislation since this was an actual event in.
It's also extremely accurate with dates, and weights, I'd use this as an introduction to a recycling or environmental unit at school or a storytime during Earth Week!

sitelinkHere is a link to a YouTube video on how Jonah Winter created the artwork for sitelinkHere Comes the Garbage Barge!! One spring day inin a town in Rhode Island state, a barge was loaded with,tons of garbage to be towed by a tugboat to another state for the receivers to bury it.
But the tugboat captain was refused permission to leave his load, so he wandered from place to place with the barge of stinky garbage for overdays until a solution was decided upon.
Wonderful illustrations, clever and funny, This is a better intermediate level picture book than a primary one, I unfortunately read this one to a few primary classes for whom it was going over their heads, So, while I was reading along a quietly enjoying it, I could see that they were really not getting the underlying tone of the book, They understood the basics and that was fine, but there was plenty of underthetable humor that an older audience might have understood better, Great book all the same, This is a children's book about the environment, I read this book to myyears old twin boys, and they loved it so much, I love the message in the book so much, This book makes you think about how much garbage we are really making, I think everyone should read this book once I their life, The pictures in this book is so funny, but also drives home the message, I love that this book can make you laugh, but also delivers a big message, .