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Artist, the character in “Decoding Plant Genomes,” narrates Lynn Fellman's experience at Cold Spring Harbor Lab as the Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence. She received the award to make this book about CSHL scientists engineering plants to adapt to climate change.
To write and illustrate this book, she interviewed plant biologists and geneticists and photographed the experiments in the greenhouse.
The words and illustrations appeal to youngsters and the not-so-much. The text has two comprehension levels: a picturebook-style story for ages 3 to 7 and explanations of the science for middle-schoolers and grownups.
The book has a coil binding to allow the pages to lay flat as a two-page spread. The illustrations and story play out across the spread.