Children's Author
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.
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.
Rebecca Donnelly 