The Wartville Wizard

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 4 A tidy old man spent his time cleaning up the litter that the thoughtless slobs of Wartville left behind. One day, tired of his lot, he gives up, and Mother Nature gives him ``power over trash.'' He then commands that litter ``go back and stick to the person who threw you.'' The townspeople are dismayed, and the Wizard agrees to release them from their trash if they promise not to litter again. Madden's ecology lesson is humorous, and his breezy, colorful illustrations add to the comic and trash-laden predicament in which the citizens of Wartville find themselves. Good for story hour and for reinforcing basic ecology principles, this book will be enjoyed by independent readers and by story hour groups. Gayle D. Celizic, Roosevelt School, ClevelandCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
Wartville is being buried in trash! There are soda bottles under the flowers, juice cans by the mailbox, and newspapers along the road. Every day the piles grow higher and higher. Then one tidy old man realizes he has the power to get rid of all the trash forever. Wartville will finally be cleaned up once and for all!


Card catalog description
An old man fights a town of litterbugs by magically sending each piece of trash back to the person who dropped it.


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In this humorous ecology tale, a tidy old man, tired of picking up everyone's garbage around town, gains the power over trash and commands each piece of litter to stick to the person who threw it. When most of the citizens of Wartville become covered in trash, they decide to confront the wizard and express their anger towards his strange power. During this meeting, the trash-clad citizens notice how silly they look and promise to remedy their litterbug habits once and for all.


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