Australian-New Zealand, award-winning children’s author Laurel Colless is a literary comparatist by education, but spent 25 years working in sustainable business and journalism across Asia, the US and Europe, before coming back to writing. She is the founder of the Carbon Busters Club, a kids’ climate-science program that combines storytelling with science education. In 2013, Colless became an Al Gore Climate Reality Leader. Through storytelling, her aim is to entertain children with page- turning thrillers while empowering them to take the lead on big world problems like climate change, extreme weather, and plastic pollution.