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Total Garbage Doesn’t Stink!

March 2, 2023 Rebecca Donnelly

My first middle grade nonfiction book, Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World publishes next Tuesday, March 7! Kind of amazing. And reviewers have had some nice things to say about it:

“clear, engaging writing. . . [and] whimsical, informative, detailed teal-tone line drawings add to a captivating and important book. . . A fact-filled and fascinating dumpster dive of a book.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“this book makes garbage fun to read about and is a great choice for browsable nonfiction shelves and curricular tie-ins” ―School Library Journal

Available to pre-order at Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon

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Green Earth Book Award Longlist

March 4, 2021 Rebecca Donnelly

Green Machine

My 2020 nonfiction picture book with Christophe Jacques has been longlisted for the Green Earth Book Award! Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy is a fun look at the process of anaerobic digestion, which produces methane from things like food scraps and can be used to create electricity.

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A New Project with Misa Saburi

March 2, 2021 Rebecca Donnelly

I couldn’t be happier that Misa, the illustrator of Cats Are a Liquid and How Slippery Is a Banana Peel?, and I are working on our first comic series! It’s graphic nonfiction about biomimicry, the process of taking designs from nature and applying them to solve human problems. As you might expect, it’s a little (all right, extremely) silly, too.

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How Slippery Is a Banana Peel?

May 16, 2019 Rebecca Donnelly

Misa Saburi and I have another picture book coming in 2021!

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More books on the way!

May 22, 2018May 23, 2018 Rebecca Donnelly

Here’s a funny thing about publishing (and anyone in the business can tell you their own story about it): it’s nothing if not surprising. After a couple of years with no new deal announcements, now I have three within a few weeks.

I’m very pleased to have two picture books on the way with Godwin Books and another middle grade coming from Capstone. I posted the announcement for GREEN MACHINE: THE FOOD ENERGY CYCLE earlier, and here are the announcements for the other two.

Cats .

TFL

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Coming Winter 2020: My First Nonfiction Picture Book!

April 17, 2018May 23, 2018 Rebecca Donnelly

I’m so happy to announce that my first nonfiction picture book, GREEN MACHINE: THE FOOD ENERGY CYCLE, illustrated by Christophe Jacques, will be published by Holt/Godwin Books in winter 2020. It’s a rhyming ode to anaerobic digestion, and if you don’t think that sounds like fun, then you haven’t been to visit a farm’s anaerobic digester in the middle of January in northern New York.

What is anaerobic digestion? Short answer: a great way to make energy from organic matter like food & manure. See–fun! I’ll post more as the book’s production progresses.

I can’t wait to see Christophe Jacques’s art for this book. You can see his portfolio here. Super fun retro-modern, super kid-friendly.

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Kick-Butt Kidlit Interview

March 9, 2017 Rebecca Donnelly

Casey Lyall, author of Howard Wallace, P.I. and member of the stupendous Kick-Butt Kidlit team, invited me (after I begged her to) to answer a few questions about How to Stage a Catastrophe and other butt-kicking subjects. Thanks, Casey!

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An Interview on The Frozen Librarian Blog

March 6, 2017 Rebecca Donnelly

My good friend and colleague Angela Newman interviews me about HOW TO STAGE A CATASTROPHE and other writerly things on her blog.

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School Library Journal Sneak Peek

February 10, 2017February 10, 2017 Rebecca Donnelly

HOW TO STAGE A CATASTROPHE is a School Library Journal Spring/Summer 2017 Sneak Peek pick! Download the whole list to see over 150 anticipated children’s/YA titles in all categories.

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Win an ARC of How to Stage a Catastrophe!

February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Rebecca Donnelly

We’re getting closer to April 1! If you’re hoping to get your hands on an advance copy of How to Stage a Catastrophe before the official publication date, here’s your chance: 10 ARCs are up for grabs on Goodreads.