Reviews

"...introduces the "footprint" concept...This cheerfully didactic tale is more concerned with behaviour than explanation, but among preschoolers it might make a good precursor to The Smash! Smash! Truck. It has the further credential of upholding its own values: all the illustrations are made from recycled and natural materials." - Toronto Star, 02/28/2010

"Do-Gooders Done Well: Themes of ecology and entrepreneurship make for surprisingly effective picture books...The other challenge is to avoid the message that responsible ecological behaviour involves nothing but dreary admonitions. On this score, the book does a fine job in conveying the beauty, energy, and joy of the natural world, aided in no small part by its images...Text and images come together beautifully in the final scene, in which Sandy “got up and danced ever so gently around the room on her very small tippy toes.” The idea of dancing gently around the room that is our world is a lovely extension of the footprint metaphor." - Quill & Quire, 01/04/2010

"The medium is at least part of the message in this book...The book’s very appealing illustrations...visible proof that aesthetics need not be jettisoned when we talk about reducing, reusing and recycling. And the message? It’s gently and judiciously contained in a story about a girl called Sandy who discovers that the paradise that is the beach surrounding her grandfather’s cottage has been defiled by some careless picnickers’ garbage...A list of eminently doable ways to shrink our footprints completes this book." - The Globe and Mail, 03/27/2010