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Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-Free World
Get loopy with this playful introduction to the hopeful, transformative possibilities of circular systems!
Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of it’s less like a circle and more like a line. We take, make, use and then, when those things break or we’re finished with them, we toss them away.
But our planet’s resources are limited, and we’ve taken too much. That’s why all over the world, people are reusing, repurposing, repairing and designing waste out of the system!
Explore the ways that people everywhere are creating a loopier from growing building materials out of fungi to designing headphones (and cellphones!) that last, to producing vehicles that run on renewable energy. Plus, kids and families have a role to play, too. Loop de Loop introduces young readers to repair cafés, toy rentals, tool libraries and many more fun, innovative ways to build community and a more sustainable world.
Includes a list of ways children can take part in circular systems, along with a glossary and sources for further reading.
Key Text Features
Illustrations
glossary
definitions
further reading
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.8
With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Nature works on a cycle, where everything in the loop has value and nothing is wasted. But modern humans have created a different kind of it’s less like a circle and more like a line. We take, make, use and then, when those things break or we’re finished with them, we toss them away.
But our planet’s resources are limited, and we’ve taken too much. That’s why all over the world, people are reusing, repurposing, repairing and designing waste out of the system!
Explore the ways that people everywhere are creating a loopier from growing building materials out of fungi to designing headphones (and cellphones!) that last, to producing vehicles that run on renewable energy. Plus, kids and families have a role to play, too. Loop de Loop introduces young readers to repair cafés, toy rentals, tool libraries and many more fun, innovative ways to build community and a more sustainable world.
Includes a list of ways children can take part in circular systems, along with a glossary and sources for further reading.
Key Text Features
Illustrations
glossary
definitions
further reading
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.8
With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
40 pages, Hardcover
Published September 3, 2024
15 people want to read
About the author
Andrea Curtis
21 books25 followersAndrea Curtis is an award-winning writer in Toronto whose books have been published around the world. She writes for both adults and children.
Her most recent kids' books are Barnaby (Owlkids) and City of Water (Groundwood). She is also the author of A Forest in the City (Groundwood), Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and How to Fight Back) and What's for Lunch? from Red Deer Press.
Her first YA novel is Big Water, published by Orca. It's inspired by the true story of a shipwreck on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, and the harrowing experience of the two teenaged survivors.
Her most recent adult book, written with Nick Saul, is the National Bestseller, The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement. It is published by Random House Canada and Melville House Press in the US and UK. It was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and won the Taste Canada Award for Culinary Narratives.
Andrea's critically acclaimed creative nonfiction book Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck (Random House) won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Andrea lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family.
Her most recent kids' books are Barnaby (Owlkids) and City of Water (Groundwood). She is also the author of A Forest in the City (Groundwood), Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and How to Fight Back) and What's for Lunch? from Red Deer Press.
Her first YA novel is Big Water, published by Orca. It's inspired by the true story of a shipwreck on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, and the harrowing experience of the two teenaged survivors.
Her most recent adult book, written with Nick Saul, is the National Bestseller, The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement. It is published by Random House Canada and Melville House Press in the US and UK. It was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and won the Taste Canada Award for Culinary Narratives.
Andrea's critically acclaimed creative nonfiction book Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck (Random House) won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Andrea lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family.
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August 14, 2024
This is a brilliant book -- it tackles for kids what we need to do to change our world from a linear one (buy, use, discard) to a circular one (buy, use, reuse, gift, repair etc.), i.e. to follow what nature already does for us. It tackles the biggest issues while sharing that everyone is responsible (governments, corporations and citizens with help from kids) for this hopeful, collective, and doable response. There are real solutions shared. This book is aimed at ages 6 - 9, First Grade through Fourth Grade, not preschool. (The information is not presented in a way that preschoolers can apprehend in a healthy way.) Kudos to this Canadian author and her illustrator from Rotterdam in the Netherlands! There's wonderful diversity of folks depicted in all the pictures including folks in wheelchairs. Also, a great list of doable actions kids can take that make a difference and are not just greenwashing. Highly recommend.
May 7, 2025
“We’ve been living like the world moves in a straight line—take, use, throw away. But the truth is, it’s a circle.” With this powerful idea, Andrea Curtis sparks a call to rethink the way we live. Nature wastes nothing; everything feeds into the next cycle.
Through powerful language and vibrant illustrations, LOOP DE LOOP challenges young readers, and encourages all of us to shift our own ways of creating, using, and throwing away to work in harmony with these natural loops.
A perfect book to read this Earth Day, and re-read often, that prompts young readers to take action, shift mindset, and build a more sustainable world that works in cycles.
Through powerful language and vibrant illustrations, LOOP DE LOOP challenges young readers, and encourages all of us to shift our own ways of creating, using, and throwing away to work in harmony with these natural loops.
A perfect book to read this Earth Day, and re-read often, that prompts young readers to take action, shift mindset, and build a more sustainable world that works in cycles.
March 30, 2025
"We’ve acted like the world is a line, when really it’s a circle." With this beautifully simple concept, Curtis invites readers of all ages into an exploration of the ways nature works on a cycle, where "[e]verything in [the] loop has value and nothing is wasted", and of various ways we ourselves can participate in that cycle by bending our processes of production, use and waste into those loops. The poetic text accompanied by bright, gentle illustrations help children think about an urgent, difficult topic with hope and a sense of empowerment. A much needed book. Highly recommend!
January 17, 2025
I think this is the most 'corporations need to do more' book I've seen, in addition to giving kids actionable items that are doable and will make a difference in their own lives. The illustrations are wonderfully diverse.
March 30, 2025
A great book to help young people understand their role in a 'loop de loop' world. Chock full of interesting facts, creative ideas, and actionable items, this book is an excellent resource for any home or school library. Kids will feel inspired to 'get loopy' after reading!
October 1, 2024
I really like this kid friendly solution encouraging both personal and community movement as a lot of stuff I read when I was young emphasized personal changes and that is not enough!
April 17, 2025
the art is very cute! It tells rather than shows and is a little preachy but the art is just so cute!
June 1, 2025
This book is perfect.
June 22, 2025
Cool concept and love the illustrations. Found the text confusing for the intended audience.
June 23, 2025
Good book for a kinder or first grade class. Good explanation on how to reuse and recycle. Instead of throwing things away
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