Jill Pickles Books

Jill Ammon Vanderwood is the author of What’s It Like, Living Green? Kids Teaching Kids by the Way They Live. This book is the winner of four book awards: The Indie Excellence Award in the Environmental/Green category; Best Books Award in the Green category; The Teen Development Award in the Pre-teen category, and the Silver Quill award from the League of Utah Writers.

Jill Vanderwood participated in the first Earth Day celebration in Portland, Oregon. One day she was wondering if we had really made much progress since Earth Day began. The idea for What’s It Like, Living Green was born with the feeling that if anything was going to change for our earth, it would need to begin with our children.

What’s It Like, Living Green? Kids Teaching Kids by the Way they live includes stories of families who live green, such as Azura Ammon’s family from Ohio, who grow most of their own vegetables, are conscious of every purchase they make,  very careful of energy and water usage, and drive a car fueled with used cooking grease. Other kids, such as Devon Green from Florida started their own environmental business. Devon’s Heal The World Recycling began when she was only five-years-old and built up to over 100 customers. She used the money she made to help others. Ryan Hreljac began Ryan’s Well Foundation to bring fresh water to cities around the world. He is now a teenager, but he began this project when he was only seven.