David Arnold

Sep 13, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | David Arnold |Nileena Sunil |Mary Lee |Jan Cronos

]When I first picked up Luminous Beings, I was not sure what I was getting into. All I knew was that it was a young adult graphic novel, and that it had a vaguely postapocalyptic setting. There is something I’ve always found fascinating about the YA category, even after aging out of being in its target demographic. Perhaps it is the character dynamics, which somehow don’t feel the same as those between adults.

Aug 27, 2024 | slj.com | David Arnold |Rebecca Jung |Kim Ji Hyun

Gr 9 Up–Would-be filmmakers and childhood best friends Ty and Burger have big plans to make names for themselves as creative superstars—if they can get funding to develop their documentary that shows the human side of the current global catastrophe. They want to tell the stories of the thousands of victims ravaged by the menace known as Squizzies, who were once gentle beings, until a rampant virus turned them into rabid, murderous zombies; also, Squizzies are squirrels.

Jun 19, 2024 | booklistonline.com | David Arnold

Illus. by Jose Pimienta. Sept. 2024. 256p. Viking, $24.99 (9780593620908); Viking, paper, $17.99 (9780593620915). Grades 10-12. 741.5. REVIEW. First published July 2024 (). The relationship dramas at play might feel like a 1990s indie film, but then here come the glowing-eyed zombie squirrels. A literal sign of Earth’s slow-slide, disturbingly easy-to-ignore ecosystem failure, the squirrels are also a metaphor for the way our personal worlds can change beyond our control.

Jun 3, 2024 | ers.usda.gov | Andrew Rosenberg |Bryan Pratt |David Arnold |Ryan Williams

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)—the agency’s largest land retirement program—pays landowners a yearly rental fee to plant and maintain environmentally beneficial land covers on eligible portions of their land instead of crops.

Jun 3, 2024 | ers.usda.gov | Andrew Rosenberg |Bryan Pratt |David Arnold |Ryan Williams

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)—the agency’s largest land retirement program—pays landowners a yearly rental fee to plant and maintain environmentally beneficial land covers on eligible portions of their land instead of crops.