I hope you can join me for an author event at the More Than Words bookstore in Boston. More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise based in the Boston area, operating as a job training program for system-involved young people ages 16-24. It helps foster children who leave the system to acquire job skills….
Category: Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
Children’s Books on Climate Change and Environmental Justice
This year’s Read Your World’s Classroom Kit is on Climate Change and Environment Justice. But what exactly does that mean? I am using this book list to explore this topic. Let’s start with climate change and global warming. Are they the same or different? What Is Climate Change and Global Warming? Climate Action: What Happened…
Farm Picture Book Event in Newton: Sept 23 at 11 am
Boston Area Friends! Please Join Maria Gianferrari and Me for our Farm Picture Book Event Saturday, September 23 at 11:00 am Maria Gianferrari and I will be chatting and reading our books at Greentail Table in Newton, MA on Saturday, September 23rd at 11:00 a.m. We hope you can join us! p.s. For…
Celebrating Farms and Farm Workers with a Farm Book List & a Thank a Farmer giveaway!
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari, with her farm book list. Her newest picture book, Thank A Farmer, celebrates farmers. Thank A Farmer by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Monica Mikai Learn about the origins of food in this gorgeous and lyrical picture book that celebrates farmers who bring us all kinds of…
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE Book Launch with Josh Funk at Hummingbird Books
Josh Funk kindly offered to do a book event with me so for my book launch for Food for the Future, I scheduled a Storytime at Hummingbird Books, a new independent bookstore in Chestnut Hill/Newton MA, near where I live. Because Food for the Future came out on May 23, 2023, the closest weekend landed…
Our Abalone Farm Tour on the Big Island
Our trip to visit an oyster farm in Duxbury, MA turned into Food for the Future. Not all my kids were able to attend that experience so when we were on the Big Island of Hawaii, I made sure to visit the abalone farm tour there. It wasn’t the same experience as we did take…
Children’s Books about Sustainable Farms + 25 Book GIVEAWAY!
Today’s list is all about sustainable farms, to find friends for my newest picture book, Food for the Future. What are your favorite books on sustainability and/or farms? Thanks for sharing! I’m giving away 25 copies of Food for the Future. Please fill out this form to get a copy. Children’s Books…