How Does Our Food Grow? - Brooke Jorden

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Résumé :
Every fruit, vegetable, grain, and legume has its own story: Where do they grow? How do they taste? And how do they impact our bodies and the world around us? In cooperation with Kitchen Connection, an organization committed to improving our food system through education, this colorful picture book introduces readers to the concepts of biodiversity, reducing food waste, and proper growing conditions for different crops in simple, accessible language. With cool facts and challenges throughout, fun rhyming verse, and charming illustrations, How Does Our Food Grow? tells the stories of more than a dozen of your favorite fresh foods. Knowing that our food choices make a difference in our health and the health of our planet empowers us to choose wisely. The more we know, the better we grow.--...

Biographie:
Brooke Jorden earned a BA in English and editing from Brigham Young University. She is the Editorial Director at Familius, a former fitness instructor, and the author of the Lit for Little Hands series, as well as other books for children.

The Kitchen Connection Alliance is an organization of the United Nations, housed between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Department of Global Communications. It uses food as the vehicle to connect people to each other, empowering youth to support a better food system and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This project is an extension of that mission.

Kay Widdowson creates pictures for children’s books, licensing and homewares. She lives and works from her tiny home studio on the edge of Chorlton nature reserve and overlooking allotments in Chorlton, Manchester, UK. She loves to go into her studio every day supervised by her rescue cat, Beebee, tea and biscuits at the ready, radio on, and create pictures all day.