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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Have you ever considered the life cycle of a single plastic bag? When you go shopping with your parents, the clerk stuffs your purchases in a plastic bag. Once home, you unloaded the purchases and throw away the plastic bag. Where does it go? To the garbage dump first. Then a wind picks it up and whips it through pristine natural habitats, perhaps even ending up in the ocean, eaten by a turtle, who mistakes the plastic bag for a jellyfish, then chokes on the plastic and dies. Or, it’s eaten by some other fish and, undigested, guess where it ends up next? Move up the food chain to find out.
Daniela Macaya’s picture book story, Throw It “Away”, is a clever way to present environmental issues to young readers. I love reading works by young readers and this one is very well done. The author is also the illustrator and both the story, told in rhyming verse, and illustrations are well presented. The story is written in the first-person narrative from the point of view of the plastic bag. It’s almost autobiographical if one considers the plastic bag as a sentient being capable of sharing its story. The plot develops as the plastic bag goes from one location to another, adding more damage to the world’s fragile ecosystem. The key point of this story is saving the environment, pointing out that what goes around comes around. In other words, what we do today will, and does, come back to haunt us in the future. The book concludes with a section for the reader to fill in with their own stories and illustrations, making this book an interactive treasure. A powerful message and charming story and a very clever young author and artist. Keep writing, Daniela.
