Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Very cute story! Helps kids learn the importance of recycling & reusing.

The title is a bit misleading because the main character is a stingy hoarder. I thought the book would help get the message across about our need to reduce waste. Not exactly. The main character's change of heart about his habit is good, however.

Great for Earth Day book for students at school

What a wonderful book to teach children about having to much stuff and sharing.Love this book it is fun to read.

My 3 1/2 year old really enjoyed this book. Pinch is a pack rat (hoarder) and keeps everything. His house is overflowing into the street. Heddy Hedgehog and Bumper Bunny come to ask for donations for the town's tag sale, but Pinch doesn't want to give anything up. It's not until he sees friends taking their things to the tag sale that he thinks he should join in. Pinch ends up selling most everything and making quite a bit of money. Heddy and Bumper want to take the money to buy a tree to make the town beautiful, but Pinch wants to keep the money to buy more things! Pinch heads home and sees how nice and clean his house is without so much stuff and decides to sale more things. He uses the money to buy the town lots of trees!This book is about reduce, reuse, and recycle. The recycle part was brief with just a small paragraph showing Heddy and Bumper taking the newspapers, cans, and bottles to be recycled. Mostly the story was about selling the things you no longer need. I do that with consignments for the kids stuff, so this helped explain why we do this. . . except that we do use the money to buy more things :/Overall Stuff! is a good story. The illustrations are cute and engaging. I only wish the illustrations showed more things the kids could recognize. My son enjoyed searching for things in the piles, but most of the pictures were of odd things like pipes, boxes, and "stuff." Though when Pinch goes to the town tag sell the items get a little cleared, so my son was able to name a few of the toys.

My grandson loves this book (six and in kindergarten). He only had to have help with a couple of words as he read it to me, the rest he was able to sound out. So that tells me, it's a good book for young readers and does have a message. And he got that too.I think that most people hoard stuff, especially children with their toys, and the message in this book is simply if you're not going to use something, find someone who will.Although I didn't really catch the full reduce, reuse and recycle bit, seemed more about reusing - the grandson got off on the idea of a yard sale to sell the toys he no longer wanted. I suggested he talk to his mom about that. Would he be as generous as Pinch the packrat (main character) and give his earning to the community around him - I think not.It's a pleasant story and fun for him to read, so that satisfies my reasoning for getting it. I imagine I'll be listening to him read this many times when he comes to visit.

My kids are 4, 7, and 9. We have lots of conversations around our house about reusing and recycling. Almost every Sunday I head to church with something to give someone. My kids see this as a big part of our lives. After previewing the first few pages, my kids really wanted to read this book. They enjoyed it. Both the story and pictures pleased them. It's often hard to persuade kids to let go of their old toys and clothes. This book would be great to read to kids to help prepare them to have a family yard sale. My kids immediately wanted to have a tag sale. I explained that we'll have a garage sale in the spring. Now, they're looking forward to it!

If you have a kid like mine, it is hard for them to give up their toys, even the ones that they don't want to play with anymore. This is a really cute story about a pack rat. This is a book where the town has a tag sale, and the Pack rat get a chance to clean his house and sell his stuff, he realizes how much enjoyment his old toys bring to the kids and toys that he didn't even realize where still so much fun. It is a really cute story and is easy to for young readers to read.