Janet Wilson is an author and fine artist whose picture book Our Earth: How kids are saving the planet was the winner of the Science in Society Book Award and named a Smithsonian Notable Book for 2010. It is also the finalist for the Silver Birch Express award from the Ontario Library Association. Her book One Peace: True stories of young activists won the Children's Roundtable 2009 Information Book Award. She is the author/illustrator of Imagine That!, and the illustrator of In Flanders Fields, Out of Slavery, and Jasper's Day, among many others. Janet lives in Eden Mills, Ontario, a community with a strong environmental focus that includes an initiative to be the first village in North America to go carbon neutral.