Recommended for Ages 4+

Ashley Wolff returns to The Bug with her latest illustrations in the new book Compost Stew!  Get down and dirty with worms and yogurt cups to create your own mini-composting project! 

Apple cores
Bananas, bruised
Coffee grounds with filters, used
Just add to the pot
and let it all rot
into Compost Stew!

From eggshells to wiggly worms, this delightful recipe in bouncy verse features items—some familiar and some not so—that are fit for the home compost bin and will nourish Mother Earth. Vibrant collage illustrations use recycled and found materials to further a timely message. And to keep young environmental chefs fully informed about composting do’s and don’ts, there’s a note in the back about what’s not fit for the bin.

Ashley Wolff has been an artist since she declared herself one at the age of 5.  She grew up in Middlebury Vermont. Ashley’s ties to Vermont remain strong and she still spends part of every year in Middlebury.  Even as a high school student, Ashley planted a huge vegetable garden and had a “hot” compost pile in a chicken wire cage. Ashley received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979 and her first job after college was working as a graphic artist at a small newspaper in Vermont. Ashley's other books include The Miss Bindergarten series, I Love My Mommy Because..., The Little Wild Horse, and many more.

Compost Stew (Hardcover)

By Mary Mckenna Siddals, Ashley Wolff

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9781582463162
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tricycle Press, 3/2010

This title highlights a subject rarely covered in youth books and provides a lighthearted introduction to an earth- and kid-friendly activity. The brightly patterned collage artwork featuring a cast of multicultural kids working together will easily draw a young audience.
--Booklist

Compost Stew is beautiful, poetic, evocative—and educational. It provides such vital, important information for children (and adults) to understand and embrace, and to put into practice! This book greatly respects its readers, and I hope it will become as widely read and popular as it deserves. 
–Mollie Katzen, author of Moosewood Cookbook and Pretend Soup

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