Nearly one fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. Over the past thirty years, we have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the “miracle” of ready-to-eat therapeutic food. Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding ways to end malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world and also the site of path-breaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how malnutrition in children is connected to climate change; how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects; why the empowerment of women is the single most effective factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition; and what the costs are of ending childhood malnutrition.