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Total Garbage Doesn’t Stink!

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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More books on the way!

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!

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.