Local author and illustrator Meg Humphrys is launching a campaign to help print a children’s book on April 30 at the Penguin Parade.

Meg is the Climate Change and Environment Officer at Westernport Water and a mother of two young children.

She brings together the technical knowledge from her professional career together with art and story in this sequel to the award-winning “When Water Lost Her Way”, offering a gentle way to explore the impacts of climate change with children. 

Through the eyes of its lead character ‘Water’ this children’s picture story book “Wave of Change” eloquently weaves art and science to explore the impacts from climate change and deforestation. 

The artwork is inspired from the lived experience of climate change impacts in Australia and explored through familiar landscapes and relatable species in how they adapt, migrate or decline in numbers from the impacts from climate change.

Meg launched a Pozible Crowd Funding Campaign at the start of April, to raise funds to cover the cost of creating and printing the book.

If successful, the book will be printed carbon neutral, in an extension of the theme for climate action.

The campaign page is available at www.pozible.com/profile/meg-humphrys-1.

Meg plans to donate $1 per book sold to Water Aid to support programs that provide safe drinking water and sanitation for developing countries in a rapidly changing climate.

A short video on the project is also available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jikWtYlbITc&t=3s

Meg will be launching the campaign at the free community social and film screening of “Regenerating Australia” held at the Nature Parks Theatre at the Penguin Parade from 2pm to 5pm on Saturday April 30.