The Adventures of Bruce Trail, Enviro P.I.

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

With the help of his two beaver sidekicks, Bucky and Spike,
environmental private investigator Bruce Trail patrols the forest
looking for litterbugs. A hot tip puts him on the trail of Dylan and
Sarah, two young kids having a picnic. When the kids try to wander off
without first cleaning up their mess, Trail makes the bust—in a
friendly, non-threatening way. Using his special portable computer,
Trail whisks the two offenders one year into the future to show them
what the forest would look like if everybody littered and no one picked
it up. In a flash, the kids are up to their necks in garbage. “You see
how a little litter can become a lot of litter?” Trail asks. Trail
then returns the kids to the present, and everyone breaks into an
anti-littering song and dance.

Some books go over the top. This one does not even get off the ground.
The storyline is flat, and the conclusion drags on for four pages. The
prose is too wordy and sounds like someone who can’t tell a joke
trying to tell a joke. It is not helped by the presence of cliché
characters like Bruce Trail and Bucky the Beaver. The artwork is all
right in a basic cartoon sort of way, but it will have a hard time
competing against the pros. Not recommended.