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Smiling woman with curly brown hair and glasses wearing green top.

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Book covers

Book cover showing brown and white dog wearing a red vest and collar standing in a raft on the Snake River. Detective Dogs: How working dogs sniff out invasive species. Books for a Better Earth. Alison Pearce Stevens.
Cover of When Beavers Move In showing a beaver with a stick in its mouth swimming underwater to add to its lodge. Written by Alison Pearce Stevens Illustrated by Natasha Donovan.
Rectangular book cover with yellow Rhinos in Nebraska title on black cloud of volcanic ash; four black, block-cut rhinos charge across an orange landscape.
Salmon-colored book cover with "Animal Climate Heroes" in yellow font above a whale, elephant, echidna, and sea otter bursting forth above planet Earth.
Weird but True Ripped from the Headlines 3 book cover
Weird But True Ripped from the Headlines 2 cover
5,000 Awesome Facts 3 book cover
Orange and yellow Weird But True Sports book cover with dog catching a soccer ball.

Author bios

Short

Multi-award-winning author Alison Pearce Stevens writes fun nonfiction for curious young readers. All of her work is inspired by a love of science and nature. Her books have won numerous awards and been included on multiple best-of lists, including Best STEM Books, Outstanding Science Trade Books, and Bank Street’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year.

Medium

Alison Pearce Stevens is a former scientist who writes award-winning nonfiction for the world’s most curious people to inspire them to protect the world outside their doorstep. She is the author of Rhinos in Nebraska, Animal Climate Heroes, Detective Dogs, and When Beavers Move In. She co-authored National Geographic Kids Books’ 5,000 Awesome Facts 3 and three books in their Weird But True series and has published hundreds of STEM-based magazine and online articles for kids. Her solo titles have won numerous awards and been included on multiple best-of lists, including Best STEM Books, Outstanding Science Trade Books, and Bank Street’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year.

Long

Alison Pearce Stevens has been chased by a trumpeter swan, bitten by a bronze-winged duck, and served as a climbing wall for geckos and baby bats. She used to be a beekeeper and still thinks pollinators are some of the coolest things on the planet. Once upon a time, she was Dr. Stevens, science professor, until life took her overseas, at which point she started writing about science and nature for kids, because she’s an educator at heart and had to find new ways to share cool things with the world’s most curious people. Some of these included working at museums developing exhibits and curriculum. And since the deep ocean both terrifies and fascinates her, Alison develops content for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from the coast-free state of Nebraska.

Alison writes lots of fun nonfiction: articles, picture books, and middle grade books. All of her work is inspired by a love of science and nature. She a regular contributor to Science News Explores, Highlights for Children, ASK, and other kids’ magazines, and has co-authored four books for National Geographic Kids. Her solo titles (Rhinos in Nebraska, Animal Climate Heroes, Detective Dogs, and When Beavers Move In) have won numerous awards and been included on multiple best-of lists, including Best STEM Books, Outstanding Science Trade Books, and Bank Street’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year.