Patricia Newman’s award-winning books show kids how their actions can ripple around the world. Author of the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem; as well as Zoo Scientists to the Rescue, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book; Green Earth Book Award winner Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Booklist Editor’s Choice title Ebola: Fears and Facts; and picture book Neema’s Reason to Smile, Newman hopes to empower kids to think about the adults they’d like to become. Visit her at www.patriciamnewman.com.
