cover image Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil From Scraps

Compost: A Family Guide to Making Soil From Scraps

Ben Raskin. Shambhala/Roost Books, $16.95 (62p) ISBN 978-1-61180-127-9

Raskin's delightful new book will change the way your family looks at kitchen crud. In this small volume, the author, a botanist and the head of horticulture at the Soil Association in the U.K., has compiled an eclectic system for teaching kids and clueless adults how to create new life-giving ecosystems in their homes and kitchens. Through activities and such learning tools as stickers, charts, pockets, diagrams, and a fascinating program of learning about worms, the book introduces kids to the benefit of ecological living as a normal and dynamic lifestyle. Do you know how to play "Worms and Ladders"? Bring only the dice%E2%80%94the book outlines the rest. The worm game is one of the many activities outlined in this captivating guide that will generate family fun out of kitchen garbage. Homeschooling parents will love this book. (Mar.)