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Mya-Rose Craig to write two books
She may still be a teenager, but Mya-Rose Craig has already shared a stage with Greta Thunberg, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol and become the youngest person to have seen half of the world’s birds.
Now the Chew Valley-based ornithologist, who has been blogging about birds as Birdgirl since she was 11, has set her sights on the publishing world.
Due to be published in August, We Have a Dream is an illustrated children’s book that tackles discrimination in the debate over climate change.
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We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig (illustrated by Sabrena Khadija) is being published on August 5 by Magic Cat – image: Magic Cat Publishing
Craig’s memoir/”manifesto for hope”, Birdgirl, will be published in 2022 by Jonathan Cape, who triumphed in a 14-publisher auction to buy the rights.
In We Have a Dream, illustrated by Sabrena Khadija, Craig meets 30 young indigenous people and people of colour protecting the planet.
“I’m a big advocate for global climate justice, which is basically making sure that everyone’s voices are heard in the climate change conversation,” 19-year-old Craig told The Bookseller.
“And I felt like what was happening was the opposite of that. So when I got the opportunity to write an environmental children’s book, I knew that I wanted it to be interviewing people that weren’t really getting that platform from the media.”
Craig has been vocal in her opposition to Bristol Airport expansion.
Despite living in North Somerset, she also lent her support to Marvin Rees in the recent mayoral election.
“Marvin has been a great Mayor and I believe has changed the city for the better,” she tweeted in March.
Days after the election, the mayor thanked the teenager personally for her “communications on this matter” as the council made a U-turn to save an oak tree in Ashley Down.
Main photo: Magic Cat Publishing
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