Megan Herbert


Megan Herbert is a writer and illustrator whose career writing television and film scripts, designing products, cartooning, live-drawing, and creating children’s books has spanned twenty years. In 2017 she illustrated the world’s first carbon-neutral climate change kids’ book, The Tantrum That Saved The World, which won a 2018 Moonbeam Award for books about Environmental Issues and the 2019 American Meteorological Society’s Louis J. Battan Award for best children’s book, K-12. In 2019, she was chosen to be an Artist for the Earth by The Earth Day Network, for whom she creates cartoons on the topic of climate change. She has lived in Toronto, London, Reykjavik, and Amsterdam, but is now happily back among the gum trees in Australia.


Download and print the “World Saving Action Plan” poster included as a foldout in The Tantrum That Saved the World.