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I’m award-winning children’s author Dr. Alison Pearce Stevens. Thanks for stopping by my site!

As a writer for kids, I wear two hats—I’m a science writer by day and a spinner of tall nature and science tales by night. I’ve got lots of fun stuff here for kids, parents, and teachers. Click on any of the links above to find out more.

Represented by Alexandra Weiss, Azantian Literary Agency.

Want to meet a real-life sniffer dog? Get a signed copy of Detective Dogs (signed by me AND one of my dogs)? Sample some delicious paw-print cookies and leave with some super swag? Come to my book launch at Francie & Finch Bookshop, September 19th at 5:30 pm. A sniffer dog team will be demonstrating how these super-sniffers work!

Huge thanks to the Nebraska Center for the Book for awarding Animal Climate Heroes a Nebraska Book Award for best cover/illustrations. All credit goes to illustrator Jason Ford and designer Jen Keenan for putting together a show-stopper of a book.

Animal Climate Heroes was selected for the 2025 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year list! I am so honored to have this book recognized in this way. You can learn more here.

This gorgeously illustrated book (by talented illustrator Natasha Donovan) reveals the extraordinary ways the Tulalip Tribes are healing their ancestral lands by reintroducing beavers to the Cascade Mountains. Learn more here.

HUGE thanks to Evanston Public Library for awarding Animal Climate Heroes a Blueberry Honor! This award goes to books that foster a love of nature and the environment (the name is a blue-planet play on the Newbery Medal), and I’m just delighted to have these animal superheroes recognized for the incredible work they do to help protect our planet. You can learn more here.

I had an incredible time in Arizona at the Tucson Festival of Books, where I participated in two panels focused on animals and the environment. Teddi Lynn Chichester, Rosanne Perry, and I talked about Courage in the Wild: Animals in Action. Later in the day and I teamed up with Teddi and Jessica Stremer to talk about Connecting Youth to Nature through Literature. Huge thanks to the Western National Parks Association for inviting me to participate!

I’m over the moon to have yet another title chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard book! Detective Dogs is my third Gold Standard title, and I’m thrilled to know it will be in libraries across the nation, where kids can learn how dogs and their handlers are working to protect our natural resources from invasive species.

Exciting news! I am teaming up with World Wildlife Fund to launch 100 exclusive symbolic adoption kits. These limited-edition kits feature my book, Animal Climate Heroes, autographed by me, a small elephant plush, a photo, a certificate, and a personal notecard. By supporting WWF with a donation of $100 or more, you can help protect wildlife and wild places across the globe.

This initiative highlights the power of animals in fighting climate change, a key focus of their conservation efforts. The kits will be available starting today. Join me and WWF in supporting the future of our planet and its incredible species!

In honor of World Wildlife Day, I teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund as part of their Pandas and Prose webinar series. Danielle Brigida and I talked about Animal Climate Heroes and how to stay positive in the face of climate change. Check it out here.