About The Rummage Crew

Ken Yeung is a dad in British Columbia, Canada. He writes The Rummage Crew for his two daughters, and for every kid who would rather fix a thing than throw it away.

Why these books

Kids hear "recycle" a lot. They hear much less about the steps that come first: using less, using things again, and fixing what breaks. The Rummage Crew is about those steps, told as adventures with a crew of friends rather than as lessons.

Each book takes one R, and each R belongs to one kid in the crew. Put together, they cover what grown-ups call the circular economy: keeping things in use for as long as possible, then making them into something new.

The crew

The crew is a mix of kids you might meet on any street: two sisters, a fixer, an organizer, a gardener who uses a wheelchair and a detective, plus a raccoon who gave the series its name. Every one of them has a real job in every story.

Contact

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