![]() Consult the generous bibliography for further information, and consider a Winter and McCarthy double-header for Earth Day classroom or library programming. McCarthy’s signature cast of bulging-eyed characters are a perfect match for the intrinsic silliness of this event, and the myriad talking heads airing their opinions aptly convey the noise of public engagement. Here Comes the Garbage Barge Winter, Jonah 3.82 avg rating (1,556 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 0375852182ISBN 13: 9780375852183 Publisher: Schwartz & Wade, 2010 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Pierre of the Break of Dawn and the trash-filled barge he was commissioned to tow from New York to North Carolina will appreciate added detail in both text and appended notes, even though McCarthy leaves some questions unanswered. ![]() Children familiar with the plight of Captain Duffy St. McCarthy delivers complementary coverage of the episode, focusing more attention on the newscasters that kept the story at a boil and the judges, mayors, and multiple injunctions that kept the garbage-laden barge at sea. The small Long Island town of Islip has a big problem-3,168 tons of garbage and no place to put it So workers pile the smelly refuse on a large barge, hire a tug boat, and send the stuff south to find a final resting place. Does a library collection need another? In this case, yes. Critically acclaimed childrens author Jonah Winter reimagines a true story from 1987. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been nearly a decade since Jonah Winter and Red Nose Studio delighted readers with Here Comes the Garbage Barge!, a diorama-styled picture book treatment of the 1987 comedy of errors involving a bargeload of garbage in desperate search of a landfill (BCCB 4/10). ![]()
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