
The tiny Tindims are like the Borrowers-on-Sea, who turn our everyday rubbish into treasure. A world of characters and adventures to inspire conservation and inventive ways to recycle.
In their third adventure Ethel B Dina, who looks after the fish hospital and loves to sing, needs ten green, glass bottles to complete her musical Bottleramma.
But she is surrounded by too many plastic bottles which do not make music. Join the Tindims in their glass bottle hunt and meet the Tindims explorer, Tiddledum.
Printed in dyslexia-friendly font with pictures on every page and perfect for the reluctant reader, the Tindims show keen young ecologists how to help protect our planet for the future.
Tagged conservation , creativity , environment , green issues , oceans , plastic and recycling
The The Tindims of Rubbish Island series

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Reviewed by Helen Morgan
The Tindims and the Ten Green Bottles by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Lydia Corry, is the third book in the series which begins with a hunt for ten green bottles to create a ‘Bottlerama’ – a musical instrument played to welcome the much-missed explorer (Tiddledim) to the island. However, the search for bottles is momentarily halted when they discover that a whale is lost at sea. This leads to further adventures with a Little Long Leg, a present, a dangerous encounter with a bottle of slime and an eventual solution in the most unlikely of places.
This collection of books have become well known for their accessible language. Printed in a Dyslexia friendly font, the story features short, fast-paced chapters but does not detract from what is a fun and heart-warming story. The illustrations impart facts and give depth to the characters and setting. As keen conservationists, Gardner and Corry present a message of real importance – that, ‘rubbish today is treasure tomorrow.’ Where Long Legs (adults) can’t be spoken to anymore because they are ‘grown up’, children are encouraged to become the heroes the world so desperately needs. They have the power to make change happen.
Whether this book is read by the individual or as a group/class reader, it will make a fantastic addition to a KS1 class library. There is so much scope for discussion not just about the environment and recycling but about sea creatures, voyages, climate, weather and teamwork. In its own unique way the Island is always moving and for this story, finds itself in warmer waters. Ethel B Dina’s description of her surroundings as, ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun,’ allows children to explore what it might be like to live somewhere where it is always dark or always sunny. The poems and songs (and of course a great rendition of ten green bottles) lend themselves beautifully to choral reading and subsequently, children can produce songs of their own about their surroundings and things that they hold dear.
The Reduce Reuse Recycle set
Reduce, reuse, recycle is a curated set of books on the topic, to support the primary curriculum. We have an easy-purchase pack of selected titles on this topic.
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The Tindims of Rubbish Island
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The Tindims and the Floating Moon
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A Planet Full of Plastic
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