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LUCY, UNCENSORED Interview with Savy Writes Books

02.02.2024

Teghan and I did a fun podcast with YouTube book lover Savy Leiser! Check out the video on YouTube.

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Mel and Teghan Featured on Jo's Boys Podcast

01.12.2024

Thanks to Peyton Thomas for inviting us on to chat about Little Women! Check out the episode on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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LUCY, UNCENSORED will be published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in Fall 2024

07.11.2023

Deal alert! My sister, Teghan Hammond, and I co-wrote this YA novel together. Check out our write-up in Publisher's Weekly.

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I wrote a trans-friendly kids' book. The Internet called me a filthy Groomer

06.14.2023

Check out the article I wrote for Tone Madison about my experience being at the center of a storm of right-wing harassment.

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A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image goes viral

12.14.2022

This book celebrates all kids, including trans kids. Some people didn’t like that. (Don’t worry, I turned all my hate mail into a rainbow collage and hung it above the cats’ litter box.) Read more about the drama here.

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Love the Earth and Pets both win Moonbeam gold!

10.06.2021

The 2021 Moonbeam awards judging is complete, and Love the Earth and Pets both took home gold medals! Love the Earth won gold in the Environmental Issues category, and Pets won in the Animals/Pets Non-fiction category. What an honor!

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American Girl Doll News Interview

07.30.2021

Sydney of American Girl Doll News interviewed me about Love the Earth. What an honor! Read it here: Interview with Mel Hammond: Author of Love the Earth.

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Love the Earth wins NPPA award

04.13.2021

The National Parenting Product Awards (NPPA) announced Love the Earth as a 2021 winner. One evaluator said: “My daughter was immediately drawn to the book and read it four times…. She suddenly became an environmentalist.”

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Love the Earth review

02.02.2021

Sam Killmeyer of 350 Colorado wrote a beautiful in-depth review of Love the Earth, which includes some quotes from me. It was so much fun to talk about the book with her! Find the article here: Teaching Girls To Love The Earth – And Take Action To Protect It!

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Love the Earth released

12.31.2020

Love the Earth appeared on the December 31, 2020 episode of Good Morning America, as part of American Girl’s Girl of the Year 2021 reveal. Havana, Ember, and Azalea, young climate activists featured in Love the Earth, appeared virtually on the segment. Ember and Azalea even got to speak about their 250-mile bike ride to New York City last year, which helped raise money for solar panels at their school.