Tantoh with children at a well in Cameroon While we were in Cameroon, we also took research photos and videos to share with illustrator Elizabeth Zunon for reference. It’s pretty incredible for us as a couple to get to work together on something meaningful, and carve out a life you love with the person you love.

We did some of the writing before traveling there, but a lot of revising and adding to the work happened while we were there with Farmer Tantoh. The following year we arranged to make a research trip and visit his hometown, gardens, and water projects in Northwest Cameroon. When he returned to Cameroon, we kept an eye on the remarkable ways he was growing a movement there, and the awards his work was winning.įast forward a few years, and we began conducting phone and online interviews with Tantoh. We’d learned about his environmental work and kept in touch while he went to school in our city.

We’d met Farmer Tantoh about eight years prior to the book’s release at a Toddlers for Diversity playgroup, where he was the presenter. I Am Farmer highlights the work of an environmentalist and farmer in Cameroon. book tour with Tantoh Nforba Dieudonne, the subject of their newest picture book, I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon (Lerner, 2019). While separately they’ve published picture books, their first co-creations were recently published. Today’s spotlight is on a new picture book author duo, Miranda and Baptiste Paul.

I Am Farmer by Miranda Paul