Awards & Recognitions

The first story is Energy Island, How One Community Harnessed the Wind and changed their World. Here we see how one small Danish island became energy independent. This title has found its way into young readers’ hearts as a picture book story, and into teachers’ hearts as a school reader and science book. Educational sales of Energy Island have topped a million copies in many languages including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese.

Energy Island has also won many accolades including School Library Journal Best Book of the year.

How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future tells how a small Kansas town rebuilt after a devastating tornado.

Green City has also topped a million copies and was chosen as a Best STEM Book by the National Science Teachers’ Association.

How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World was an An Amazon Best Book of the Month in 2017. It tells how one grandmother, as a young mother in Amsterdam, led protests that claimed back the city streets overwhelmed with car traffic.

An Amazon Best Book of the Month and ‘...a celebration of both cycling and political activism’ The New York Times.

How One Community Lives Alongside the World’s Biggest Solar Plant takes readers to Morocco, and the edge of the Sahara Desert where we meet a tiny Berber community whose lives are being changed by the transition to Clean Energy. The American renewable energy company, Arcadia, promotes Solar Story as one of the best books to teach kids about renewable energy.

‘A valuable look at sustainability and development.’ Kirkus Reviews

How One Community is Leading the World Towards Zero Waste, is currently under contract with Macmillan. The book will pay a visit to the small town of Kamikatsu in Japan where the community is attempting what might seem impossible – to recycle everything.

A junior Library Guild Gold Standard Book winner.