Talk by Authors Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

Event: Meet Authors Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm as they tell us about writing their new book Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas

Place: Woods Hole Public Library

Date/Time: July 19, Thursday, 7:30 PM

            Authors Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm will come to the Woods Hole Public Library on July 19 to describe how they wrote their new book "Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas”. They will explain how they wrestled with putting complex scientific concepts into simple terms, about how the sun, through photosynthesis, feeds ocean life,  so that children of all ages can understand and even delight in the concepts. 

            Penny Chisholm, a professor of Biology at MIT, has studied ocean phytoplankton (tiny plants) for over 30 years and Molly Bang has written and illustrated children's books for the same length of time. Their book, published by Blue Sky/ Scholastic in May of this year, is only 48 pages long, most of which are taken up by illustrations. But the authors worked through 150 versions of the words and many, many versions of the pictures. Learn how they changed both the words and the illustrations over the course of the year they worked on developing the book, and see slides of their final result.

            This event will be held at 7:30 PM Thursday, July 19 in the lower level meeting room of the Library. For more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961, or view the library website www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org or the author’s website at www.mollybang.com.