I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mexico and his family had a mushroom farm! What an incredible coincidence! Have you ever wondered how to grow mushrooms? Most commercial mushrooms…
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FOOD FOR THE FUTURE makes Imagination Soup’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2023
I’m so thrilled that Food for the Future made Imagination Soup‘s list of 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids. You can see the entire list here. p.s. Related posts: Food for the Future: Sustainable Values in Children’s Books at the ALAAC23 FOOD FOR THE FUTURE Book Launch with Josh Funk at…
New! Food for the Future Activity and Discussion Guide!
I have a new Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World Discussion and Activity Guide! It’s perfect for educators and parents who want gardening extension activities that can be done indoors. Get it here or here FoodfortheFuture_ActivityPack To examine any book more closely at Indiebound or Amazon, please click on…
‘Food for the Future’ makes Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best
I’m thrilled to announce that Food for the Future is included in Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best lists! This is a staff-created list. Food for the Future is on their Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2023 list for kids in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The Best of the Best lists represent…
Food for the Future in EdibleBoston! 4 page insert!
Barefoot Books has partnered to create edible for KIDS, a four-page insert that is in EdibleBoston and other cities that are part of the Edible Community magazine series. Here’s a video of the four-page spread for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. Have you seen this in your city? Please…
Food for the Future: Sustainable Values in Children’s Books at ALAAC23
I was thrilled to get the opportunity to speak at the ALA Conference 2023 on the Diversity in Publishing stage for Food for the Future. My topic was Sustainable Values in Children’s Books. While only a handful of people attended, the CEO of Barefoot Books, Nancy Traversy, recorded it for me. That’s the extra mile…
I’m at More Than Words Bookstore: Sept 25 at 2 pm
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….