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Fontaine, a small pigeon, is fed up with the world's addiction to technology. In response, he rallies a cohort of birds and, with their help, leads an ICKY revolution that forces people to put down their phones, look up, and connect with nature and each other.
Told in lyrical verse and with quirky, poignant illustrations, Look Up! Fontaine the Pigeon Starts a Revolution is a humorous blend of cautionary tale and story time fun that’ll spark conversation and delight readers of all ages.
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Britt Gondolfi grew up in the elder millennial era. She reminisces about having a screen-free childhood, minus a little Nintendo, TV, and slow dial-up desktop, but no smartphones. Concerned over how her cell phone took her attention away from her child, she wrote Look Up! Fontaine the Pigeon Starts a Revolution as an urban legend joke for her daughter. Now, if she ever gets too caught up in her cell phone, her six-year-old will politely remind her, “Mom, you better put that away before a bird poops on you! She works as a Rights of Nature policy advocate for the Bioneers organization and is a recent graduate of Loyola University College of Law. As a former teacher and lover of literature, typewriters, and poetry, she hopes this book will inspire people to look at their relationship with technology and take more time to look up.Amanda Romanick is an award winning multi disciplinary artist and illustrator with a background in fine art painting, sequential art, illustration and visual storytelling. Amanda holds a degree in Visual Communication from the Savannah College of Art and Design, with a Major in Illustration and a Minor in Sequential Art. In 2024 her illustration work in Look Up! Fontaine the Pigeon Starts a Revolution received Silver in the Best Illustrator category of the Moon Beam Children’s Book Awards. Amanda is passionate about creating art that delights young readers and inspires them to create their own stories.
