Eco babies on board.

Board books are especially useful as active infants begin to practice "reading" on their own, delighting over their ability to turn pages and identify toes, umbrellas and balls. There are a whole series of hip little board books by author Michelle Sinclair Colman and illustrator Nathalie Dion, featuring urban babies, country babies, beach babies, winter babies, and now, eco babies. In Eco Babies Wear Green (Tricycle Press, $6.95), there's a toddler hugging a tree, and one stuffing her mouth full of strawberries next to the line: "Eco babies eat local." "Recycling" is riding in a cardboard box cardboard box n → caja de cartón

cardboard box n → (boîte f en) carton m

cardboard box card n → , "carpooling" is riding on mom's bike and "composting

For the product of composting see compost

Composting is the controlled aerobic decomposition of biodegradable organic matter, producing compost. " is chucking Cheerios on the ground. The book brings eco-words into baby's budding budding, type of grafting in which a plant bud is inserted under the bark of the stock (usually not more than a year old). It is best done when the bark will peel easily and the buds are mature, as in spring, late summer, or early autumn. vocabulary with a solidly intact sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
sense of humour, humor, humour .

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Title Annotation:	Eco Babies Wear Green
Author:	Belli, Brita
Publication:	E
Article Type:	Book review
Date:	May 1, 2008
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