I write books for young people from my home a few miles from the farm where I grew up.Tributes in prose and poetry to children and teens of today who have spoken out to support a cause or protest injustice.īudding activists in search of child role models beyond the high-profile likes of Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg may well draw inspiration from this less-intimidating-but no less brave and worthy-lineup. That gave me my mission: to tell stories that empower children and encourage them to care for the world and all its creatures. I rekindled my love of children’s books when I realized my two rambunctious little boys would sit still for a good story. Then I became a mom and decided to leave my job as a newspaper reporter to stay home with my kids.
That may explain why one of the first stories I wrote as a kid featured a smitten, waltzing ostrich.Īfter high school and college, I flew the coop for a career in the city. I memorized and recited nursery rhymes, and I loved to pretend. I can still hear the music for the page turns on Roger Hargreaves’ “ Little Miss” stories. I wanted to read all the time as a young child, so in order to get the chores done, my parents bought me a lot of books on tape. (Chopping weeds out of the soybean fields? That was another story.) I also loved to ride the combine with my dad. I loved to follow my golden retriever to the creek and hunt for tree stumps gnawed by beavers, look for deer tracks, and wonder at the ripples made by pebbles I’d skipped. I grew up on a Kansas farm, where I developed a curiosity about nature. Lindsay lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, two old cats, and a snoring Cavalier King Charles dog.Ĭlick here for a short biography suitable for programs. Forthcoming titles include No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change, a poetry anthology from the team behind No Voice Too Small (Charlesbridge, spring 2023) and Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm, illustrated by Xin Li (Astra Young Readers, spring 2024). Metcalf is a journalist and award-winning author of nonfiction picture books: Beatrix Potter, Scientist, a Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020 and Young People’s Literature Award winner from the Friends of American Writers Chicago Farmers Unite! Planting a Protest for Fair Prices, a Kansas Notable Book, Friends of American Writers honoree, NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and Junior Library Guild selection and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, a Kirkus and Chicago Public Library Best Book, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, and NCTE Notable Poetry Book.
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