How Does Our Food Grow?

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.

This book should be in every home, every library, and every classroom to teach our children how the food they eat affects their bodies and the planet. How Does Our Food Grow? aims at encouraging curiosity and responsibility around our food choices and practices from a young age.—Ambassador Pio Wennubst, Switzerland