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Spicing Up the New Year: Indian Cooking Adventure
Imagine a Christmas present of a whole new cuisine. That is what I received. My sister and her daughter went to an Indian food store, purchased spices, a spice box, bags of various beans and countless...
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My grandfather was a farmer at a time with ranchers would cut a hole in a farmer’s fence to let cattle graze a new field. My grandfather said he shot a cow or two when it came through the fence....
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Vulture View Flies in Portland, Oregon
“We LOVE your stories. I am obessed with the story Vulture View, and built a whole lesson around it, teaching kids all sorts of weird stuff about the adaptations of vultures. We even built our own...
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7 Months ‘Til Blueberry Hands
Blueberry Ranch. Organic blueberry farm. Three miles from my house. Need I say more? Our freezer is full. But I can’t wait until July 17th or so when once again I’ll have . . . blueberry hands!...
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Meet the Howlers Is On Its Way!
February marks the release of my new book, Meet the Howlers! (illustrated by Woody Miller, published by Charlesbridge).This nonfiction, rhyming read aloud looks at the life of a howler monkey from the...
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Exploring Earth’s Biomes series
Desert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2825-0 Temperate Deciduous Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2828-5 Tropical Rain Forest . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2826-9 Coral Reef ....
View ArticleEndangered Birds of North America
To save endangered whooping cranes, people will do some seemingly zany things. in Wisconsin, a woman dresses up in a whooping crane costume.
View ArticlePut On Some Antlers And Walk Like a Moose
Do you know a raccoon by its smell? A deer by its tracks? The difference between the call of a tree frog and the call of a bird? To find animals, many field scientists work like detectives, looking for...
View ArticleThe Seven Continents series
Middle school students can learn the ecology of each continent in depth with this series of books: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Africa . . . . . . . ....
View ArticleEl Niño and La Niña: Weather in the Headlines
Floods. Droughts. Heavy snow storms. Dying coral reefs. Dry deserts that suddenly bloom. In 1997 and 1998, dramatic weather events and weather-related events were in the headlines almost every day.
View ArticleTropical Rain Forest, Scholastic Science Readers
Frogs chirp. Parrots screech. Insects click. A piece of bark falls. You look up at a tree that is taller than a ten-story building. Howler monkeys hoot and roar.
View ArticleSecrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds
...on a ship off Hawaii, Christopher Clark lowers a special microphone into the ocean to listen to whales singing. He also analyzes secret recordings from hundreds of ocean microphones the navy uses to...
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Slowest Book Ever
“The Antidote for a Hurried Childhood” was what the Huffington Post called my middle grade nonfiction book, The Slowest Book Ever (Boyds Mills Press, release in April, 2016) in a sneak peek article by...
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Being Frog
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Being Frog hops into stores Feb 2, 2020! Read the Kirkus starred review or the Publisher’s Weekly starred review or the starred review...
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