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Recent articles

Andrea’s essay “What we talk about when we talk about hope” was published recently in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. She also published a piece about her research process in Writer’s Digest. You can watch her on Gill Deacon’s podcast “A Love Affair with the Unknown” talking about her book The Story and Science of Hope here.

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.

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.

New books

Andrea has published six new books for kids since 2020.

Her most recent is The Story and Science of Hope published by Groundwood Books.  It’s available now.

Her 2024 book, Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-Free World (illustrated by Roozeboos, from Groundwood Books 2024), is about how we can all embrace the circular economy— aimed at 6-9 year olds. It won the Blueberry Changemaker Award, a Stepping Stone Honor Award, is a Social Justice Literature Award honor book, was shortlisted for the Green Book Award and Bookstagang named it one of its best picture books of 2024 in the Innovative Nonfiction category. To learn 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.