This worthy collaboration reveals how one man's vision of food for all has inspired an amazing life of service.' - Kirkus Reviews The book is a beautiful tribute not just to its hero Will Allen but also to the right of every child to have access to good, healthy, cheap food. In his picture-book debut, Larkin provides mixed-media cityscapes that, eventually, brim with the fruits of Allen's labor and match Will's exuberance and spirit of community. Martin's verse text, laced with word bursts in ebullient display type, engages both readers and listeners. He taught kids and teens to farm and traveled the world with his message. He brought an acumen for growing veggies home to Milwaukee and saw that fresh vegetables / were as scarce in the city / as trout in the desert.' Will bought a polluted city lot and created compost from food waste, aided by red wiggler worms. Raised in a food-loving family that grew and shared its own, Will eschewed weeding and picking for college and a move to Belgium to play pro basketball, where he continued gardening on the side. In between, she sketches salient events that stoked Allen's commitment to empowering people to grow their own food.

When he sees kids, he sees farmers.' Martin begins and ends with this positive premise. But how could Will farm in the middle of pavement and parking lots?' - from the book, Will Allen can see / what others can't see. Will believed everyone, everywhere, had a right to good food. But how could Will farm in the middle of pavement and parking lots?' - from the book, ' seen that fresh vegetables were as scarce in the city as trout in the desert. ' seen that fresh vegetables were as scarce in the city as trout in the desert.

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