For this year’s World Environment Day, the UN Environment Program is leading a campaign to #BeatPlasticPollution. I have a book set to release in 2024 with Orca Footprints, What Poo Can Do: How Animals are Fighting the Climate Crisis, that tackles plastic pollution in the first chapter on whales. The book I’m currently writing, BUGS […]
Category: Books
Giveaway!
It’s one week till the official launch of my latest science book for kids, Evolution Under Pressure, and I just found out it’s a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! To celebrate, I’m giving away one of my author copies!! Enter to win the giveaway before May 30th. [sweepwidget id=”70418″ url=”0ys79daw”]
Those Kids From Fawn Creek
I went on the record during my CBC Radio interview about the challenge of including multiple characters in a book without creating character soup. In Elliot Jelly-Legs, I wanted to include an entire hockey team (or most of it). The solution was hockey cards inserted in the text as each character is introduced. In Those […]
Linked
Will prolific kid-lit author, Gordon Korman, ever run out of ideas? I reviewed his book, The Hypnotists, in this post on my old website and included Ungifted in my SciWhy article Science in Middle Grade Fiction. But those are just a few of many great titles by Gordon Korman, who keeps finding new ways to […]
Better Connected
You can tell from my past reviews (Under Pressure, Mya’s Strategy to Save the World and When the Worst Happens) that I’m a big fan of Tanya Lloyd Kyi. Now, in addition to middle grade nonfiction and fiction, she’s done something I’ve contemplated doing too–a collaborative book with her daughter (only in my case it […]