Mélina Mangal writes picture books, biographies, and short stories that focus on connections with nature and culture. She is the award-winning author of The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, Jayden’s Impossible Garden, Jayden’s Secret Ingredient, the new nature-based board book series Outside Our Window and a forthcoming collaboration with Sun Yung Shin and Leslie Barlow entitled Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs.  Visit her online at www.melinamangal.com.