I am delighted to have Animal Climate Heroes selected as a Blueberry Honor book! Created by Evanston Public Library to recognize children’s books that foster a love of nature and the environment, the Blueberry (a blue-planet play on the Newbery
Purple exists only in your brain
I learned this today, and it kind of blew my mind. We know a rainbow has seven colors, from red to violet (ROY G BIV). Violet is a true color. But purple isn’t! Purple is a mix between blue and
I had a chat with the founder of Fat Bear Week
I had a marvelous time talking with Naomi Boak, founder of Fat Bear Week (and an Emmy- and Webby-Award winning creator and producer) as part of the Stanford Alumni for Climate Action webinar series. We talked about Animal Climate Heroes!
Pandas and Prose Interview with WWF
In honor or World Wildlife Day, I teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund to chat about Animal Climate Heroes and how important it is to find hope and empower kids and adults alike to take action to protect our
Books for a Better Earth
I’m super excited to be one of the authors contributing to Holiday House’s Books for a Better Earth collection! There’s lots of information out there about how bad things are, environmentally speaking. But there isn’t much about what people can
Nebraska Book Awards hat trick!
I am so honored that Rhinos in Nebraska won THREE Nebraska Book Awards! The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Nebraska Library Commission give these awards to outstanding books by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, or about the
Glaciers and otters and trains, oh my!
My family usually travels a lot, but the pandemic postponed a trip to Alaska with my in-laws by a couple of years. At the end of May, we finally made it! After a long flight (after an even longer layover
Surfing electrons create the northern lights
The flickering glow of the northern and southern lights is known around the world. They occur when electrons from the sun’s solar wind run into Earth’s magnetic field. But in order to build up enough energy to release light, those
Big yawns mean big brains
Y-a-w-n! Ever wonder why we stretch our mouths wide open now and again in a big yawn? Do we do it because we’re tired? Or maybe bored? Scientists recently discovered that the bigger an animal’s brain, the longer the yawn.
This sea slug lost its head!
You may have heard the phrase to lose your head, which means you’re not acting very sensibly. But this sea slug takes that saying to a whole new level. It quite literally separates its head from its body, then grows