Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

About the author

Jacqueline Briggs Martin's many children's books include Snowflake Bentley, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious, a School Library Journal "starred" review book and the follow up to Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, part of the Food Hero series about people who changed what and how we eat. She grew up on a farm in Maine and now lives in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Eric-Shabazz Larkin made his illustration debut with Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table in 2013 and his author-illustrator debut with A Moose Boosh: A Few Choice Words About Food in 2014. Both were named American Library Association Notable Children's Books. He lives in New York City.

Will Allen is a farmer and founder and CEO of Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is recognized as a preeminent practitioner of urban agriculture in America and throughout the world. A former basketball star, he was named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 2008 and Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2010.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• Assisted by: Eric-Shabazz Larkin (Illustration), Shabazz Larkin (Illustration)
• Publisher: Readers to Eaters
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 6
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780983661580
• ISBN: 978-0-9836615-8-0
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 209 mm x 274 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 141 g
• Series: Food Heroes; Food Heroes
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics