Food for the Future
Food for the Future
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Summary
Go on a tour of farms around the globe to learn about new farming innovations and sustainable ways people have been growing food for centuries.
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Food for the Future by Mia Wenjen
★ "An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use." –Sally A. James, School Library Journal Go on a tour of eco-friendly farms around the globe! From urban gardens to farms under the sea, discover the many different sustainable ways people have been growing food for centuries, and new innovations that are battling the effects of climate change on farming. Rhyming text and inset boxes with definitions for new vocabulary words make the topic accessible to young learners. End matter includes detailed information about each country's farming practice, sustainable farming and more.
“A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture” – Kirkus Reviews
★ "An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use" –Sally A. James, School Library Journal
★ "An exciting overview of traditional and innovative farming techniques that will warrant repeated reading, for casual browsing or classroom use" –Sally A. James, School Library Journal
Mia Wenjen enjoys boxing, gardening and yoga. Because Japanese cucumbers are not available where she lives, she sprouted them from seed and convinced her boxing gym friends to grow them as well. She lives in Boston, USA, with her husband, three children and Golden Retriever. She blogs on parenting, education and children’s books at PragmaticMom.com and runs the nonprofit Multicultural Children’s Book Day.
Robert Sae-Heng is an illustrator and artist living in London, UK, with his fantastically large cheese plant, Elvis. He has Mexican and Thai origins, and spent his childhood on a tiny farm in Mexico. He first began using imagery to communicate because he spent his early years unable to hear. Robert now works with mixed media, combining hand-drawn elements with a digital finish.
Robert Sae-Heng is an illustrator and artist living in London, UK, with his fantastically large cheese plant, Elvis. He has Mexican and Thai origins, and spent his childhood on a tiny farm in Mexico. He first began using imagery to communicate because he spent his early years unable to hear. Robert now works with mixed media, combining hand-drawn elements with a digital finish.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781646868391 |
| ISBN 10 | 1646868390 |
| Title | Food for the Future |
| Author | Mia Wenjen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Barefoot Books, Incorporated |
| Year published | 2023-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Prizes | Winner of Nautilus Silver Book Award 2024, Commended for Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best books of 2023 2023 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |