What do our cities, lives, transportation, eating habits, trash, plants, and energy usage all have in common? The ability to be green!

Discover all the ways we can dream green, from building walkable cities to planting flowers for the bees. This poetic journey is a great introduction for kids to learn specific, constructive changes that we can make in our homes and communities to help the environment stay green. Kids may even be excited to see that their communities or homes already do these green things! With short rhyming verses, kids will have fun reading about all the possibilities for helping the Earth.

Oh, dream of the gardens!
Pumpkins and peppers, apples, tomatoes.
Long rows of CO2-catching potatoes.
Just dream of the compost.
Waste-reducing, soil-producing.
Sow-able and grow-able.
So. Much. Po-tential

Author Sarah Nelson’s text is an encouraging mantra to dream green, and she expertly plays with her verses to make learning about going green fun and light. Paired with Mariona Cabassa’s stunning, textured, and vibrant artwork that wonderfully portrays Nelson’s poetry, this book is sure to pull kids in as they dream about a bright, green future.