Bring The Pollinator’s Gift to Young Readers

Give One or Get One - Picture Book The Pollinator’s Gift/El don de los polinizadores

Help me bring my newest picture book, The Pollinator’s Gift/El don de los polinizadores, into the world. Get your own signed, limited first edition, or give one to a child through participating schools or My Very Own Bed.

The Pollinator’s Gift is a bilingual picture book that celebrates the glorious diaspora of critters that make our flowers and food possible.

Synopsis:

When two children, Mario and Junie, visit their grandmother in her garden, they are frightened by the bees. Nana Bea shares how bees and other animals such as butterflies, bats, and beetles have particular gifts that make them excellent pollinators. Mario and Junie begin to think about their own gifts, and how they might be pollinators for good in their community.

"Informative and delightful! With the vivid jewels of her illustrations and rhythmic content, readers will immerse themselves in the beauty, breadth, and vital work that pollinators do for one another and us. Bountiful and fun words in both English and Spanish will help them see themselves among the vital treasures of our natural world."

-Ann Hobbie, author of Monarch Butterflies

About this project:

I developed this book with a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the MN State Arts Board. The grant allows for me to teach a residency based on the book at Bancroft Elementary in Kingfield. But beyond the scope of that grant, I want to ensure that this book gets into the hands of as many kids as possible!

Maybe you wish to get a copy for a child you love.

Perhaps you’d like to give one to a school, or to a child who has been recently housed.

Either way, your support will help get the wonder and hopeful message of this book to a young person.

Note: I will reach out to you after you give, and see which combination of the following options you prefer.

To get a copy for yourself or someone you love:

$17 donation gets you a signed first edition (Twin Cities only, for pick-up option at book launch on Nov 16 or at my house by arrangement.)

Shipping options, US Post:

(Must ship by December 10th to guarantee arrival by Christmas.)

$24 donation gets you a signed first edition, plus a little surprise, shipped anywhere in the continental US.

$27 donation gets you a gift-wrapped, signed first edition, plus a little surprise, shipped anywhere in the continental US.

$44 donation gets you a signed, gift-wrapped first edition, a little surprise, plus a pack of greeting cards from my 2016 Hibernation series.

$52+ donation gets you everything above, and I will don sparkly cat ears and perform a gleeful Snoopy dance in my head just for you. (Cue piano music.)

To give a copy to a child through My Very Own Bed or a school:

If there is a school or nonprofit not listed that you would like to donate a book to, just let me know!

Oh, and psst…you can give more than one copy!

My Very Own Bed (To learn more about this organization: https://www.myveryownbed.org/)

Schools:

La Colectiva Bilingüe schools: Emerson, Las Estrellas, and Richard Green

Hiawatha Elementary

Howe Elementary

Frost Elementary

Mississippi Creative Arts Elementary

Moreland Elementary

Nokomis North and Nokomis South Elementary

Northern Lights K-8

Parkview Elementary

Pratt Elementary

More about this campaign:

Making books is a labor of love! Funds from this campaign will allow me to offset the cost of printing, layout, graphic design, ISBN, barcode, and shipping. I hope to raise $1500 by November 16th. Your support means so much to me. ¡Gracias!