by Susan Hood uses poetry to discuss the role of plastic in our lives. “Is plastic fantastic?”, the book begins, talking about some of the benefits of plastic-like sterile medical instruments--while also showing the downsides of its ubiquity in our world. Kids are introduced to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the impact of plastic on wildlife, and the journey of a single plastic fork “that broke into bits, to never decay/that fish swallowed up themselves yummy prey.” The poetry is punctuated by prose blurbs with fascinating and important facts about plastic pollution. (Non-Fiction)