Author: Meera Subramanian,Danica Novgorodoff
Publisher: First Second
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250262974
Age Range: 14-18
Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/01/2025
About the Author
Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes narrative nonfiction about home in the personal and planetary sense, in a time of climate crisis. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nature, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. Her first book was A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, which was short-listed for the 2016 Orion Book Award. A National Geographic Explorer, Meera has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is a perpetual wanderer who can't stop digging in the dirt to plant perennials and looking up in search of birds from her home base atop a glacial moraine on the Atlantic's western edge.
Danica Novgorodoff is an artist, writer, and
New York Times best-selling illustrator. Her books include the graphic novels
Long Way Down, written by Jason Reynolds;
Slow Storm;
The Undertaking of Lily Chen; and
Refresh Refresh; the cookbook
The Simple Art of Rice, with JJ Johnson; and the picture book
Alexander von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, and Environmental Pioneer. In 2022, Danica was awarded the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal, the UK's most prestigious award for children's book illustration. She also received a 2020 Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant in literature and a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in literature.