Dear friends and readers, I’m pleased to announce that a young reader’s edition of my 2001 book, The Botany of Desire, is being published today. Beautifully adapted by Richie Chevet, who adapted The Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2009, The Botany of Desire tells the story of four plants whose destinies are linked to ours: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. It’s a book about co-evolution, natural history, and the powerful human desire that shape the natural world. My premise is that the domesticated plants that we think we manipulate and control to serve us are in fact manipulating us with their ingenious chemistries, beauty, flavors and nutrients; we work for them as much as they work for us. The new edition is aimed at readers between ten and fifteen. Please check it out, especially if you know someone in that age range interested in plants, evolution, natural history or food.
When will you be giving Mind the YA graphic nonfiction treatment?