The Smash! Smash! Truck: Recycling As You've Never Heard it Before

This energetic book celebrates recycling with an anthropomorphic recycling truck and happily smashed recyclables. The groovy Professor Potts puts things in cosmic context, explaining that in Earth's 4.5 billion-year existence, “very little has been added and almost nothing has been taken away.... The Earth recycles atoms.” The occasional phrase might raise an eyebrow (“earthquakes are the earth-shattering noise of rocks recycling”), but readers should relish the highlighter yellow accents and humorous asides. Ages 5–8. (Feb.)