Student Ecoliteracy: The Publisher

Our last episode was coined "Student Ecoliteracy, The Author" which explored Katherine Pryor's journey of writing children's books about nature and garden subjects. In this companion episode, we talk to Katherine's first publisher, Philip Lee of Readers to Eaters. They specialize in publishing kids books about nutrition and school gardens! Philip Lee www.readerstoeaters.com Link to Readers to eaters books NPR Children's Publishing House Takes Food Literacy Literally Children’s book council Seattle times Publisher’s weekly #FoodJustice | How Readers to Eaters is changing how kids eat (and read!) Illustration Department Podcast Facebook page June Jo Lee’s work as a food ethnographer. She gave a TED Talk this summer and the 8 min video was just released last week and has nearly 460,000 views! Here’s TED’s description: Exploring the rich meaning behind what we choose to eat, food ethnographer June Jo Lee unpacks how our "modern hungers" — or our deepest desires and need for connection — inform every bite. She decodes what Gen Z's palate says about the present moment and the shape of the future. BIO: Philip Lee is the publisher of READERS to EATERS, which he co-founded with his wife, author June Jo Lee. The company’s mission is to promote food literacy through stories about our diverse food cultures. He also co-founded Lee & Low Books, one of the first children’s book publisher with a focus on diversity. Publishers Weekly in 2022 named him among “the book business’s top 25 change makers of the past 25 years.” He got his start in publishing working at his college bookstore at U.C. Berkeley, then moved to New York to work in magazine publishing for publications such as Glamour and GQ. As a host and producer for KBCS radio in Bellevue, Washington, he reported on educational issues and learned the connection between good food and student learning, which eventually led to the launch of READERS to EATERS. He has served on the board of Slow Food Seattle and Slow Food U.S.A.. A Hong Kong native, he now lives in San Francisco. We would love to hear from you! Send us a message.