Brown, Meredith Crandall. Milk and Juice: A Recycling Romance. Picture Book. Meredith Crandall Brown, Illus. Balzer & Bray, 12/2021. [32]pp. $18.99. 978-0-06-302185-3. ADDITIONAL. GRADES PRE-1
A plastic jug of milk and plastic bottle of juice fall in love while in a veggie-filled refrigerator. Pencil and gouache illustrations depict the two searching for each other after they leave the fridge and are recycled. In this idealized recycling story with many trips through the recycling system, they each end up as many other plastic things before finally being reunited at the end of the cycle as part of the same plastic item. A different take on searching for your love, reincarnation, and life as a whole. Includes a short two-page, comic-like informational section explaining the plastic recycling process. Unfortunately, there’s no information about how little plastic is actually recycled or the difficulties with doing so, much less how unlikely something is to be recycled more than once.
Joshua
Rees, Daly City Public Library