This is the first children's book from CBBC presenter Maddie Moate: a collection of
extraordinary stories about STUFF. Do you ever wonder where your stuff comes from and what
happens to it when you're finished with it? Did you know that you can make paper out of
elephant poo? And plastic packaging out of seaweed? And did you know that if you throw away an
old T-shirt it can take 200 years to break down? Written and researched by Maddie Moate the
star of CBBC's Do You Know? and Let's Go Live with Maddie and Greg and illustrated by Paul
Boston this book is full of mind-bursting facts and extraordinary stories of the ingenious
ways people around the world and across history have made used and re-used the stuff around
them.
