In this environment education story Amara finds out what happens to waste food, what can go in a compost bin and how to reduce the amount of food we throw away. The story is a great resource for helping children understand why we should not waste food.

Good to be Green is a series of six environment education books that help children age 6+ explore green issues and find out what they can do to help the planet. Each book features the story of a child who is exploring their world and learning why it's important to think green. Alongside the stories are fact boxes with extra information and at the end of each story there are activity ideas, teaching notes and a quiz. Each story is accompanied by bright illustrations by Diane Ewen.

This book is part of a book series called Good To Be Green .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-8 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Deborah Chancellor has written many non-fiction books for children on a wide variety of subjects. Diane Ewen lives in the West Midlands. She has loved painting since she was very young. She has a degree in illustration and spends her spare time reading crime novels and visiting book shops for inspiration.