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Andrea’s essay about the environmental success story that is the cormorant resurgence in North America is out now in Cottage Life magazine. You can also read how climate change is altering her family’s generations-long battle with beavers at Cottage Life.  It’s read aloud on the Cottage Life podcast here.

Andrea has published six new books for kids since 2020. Her latest is Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-Free World (illustrated by Roozeboos). It’s about how we can all embrace the circular economy and it’s aimed at 6-9 year olds. It won the Blueberry Changemaker Award, was shortlisted for the Green Book Award and Bookstagang named it one of its best picture books of 2024 in the Innovative Nonfiction category.

City of Neighbors (illustrated by Katy Dockrill), published in 2023, was the fourth and final book in Andrea’s ThinkCities series for middle grade readers about urban centres and sustainability. It follows on City Streets are for People (illustrated by Emma FitzGerald), City of Water (illustrated by Katy Dockrill) and  A Forest in the City (illustrated by Pierre Pratt). Read a conversation between Andrea and the illustrators reflecting on the series here.

Neighbours was an OLA Best Bets Honourable Mention and Katy was nominated for a World Illustration Award for the fabulous, colourful illustrations. Forest has been recognized with a Bank Street Best Books of the Year nod, as well as a Skipping Stones Honor Award. City of Water was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection and was among the TOP 10 books on sustainability as chosen by the ALA Sustainability Roundtable. Streets was named one of the KOBO Best of the Year in children’s literature and acknowledged on Booklist’s Top 10 Environment & Sustainability Books for Youth.

Inspired by her research on water in the city, Andrea wrote an essay for The Globe and Mail about walking the wild ravines of Toronto. Read it here. She also wrote “City of Neighbours,” an essay in the Globe about building community and connection in a struggling city.

Andrea’s next book for kids, The Story and Science of Hope will be published by Groundwood in 2025.  To read more about Andrea’s work for young readers, visit www.andreacurtiskids.ca.

Andrea is also working on a novel for adults, a new young adult novel called All in My Head and other projects for young readers. Follow here for her most recent news, reviews and articles.