Books
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial (2016)
How to Burp in Space? And Other Tips Every Space Tourist Needs to Know (2013)
It’s a Dog’s Life: How Man’s Best Friend Sees, Hears, and Smells the World (2012)
See How They Run: Campaign Dreams, Election Schemes, and the Race to the White House (2008,2012, upcoming revised ed. 2019)
All in Just One Cookie (2006)
Gee Whiz (2006)
Life on the Ice (2006)
On This Spot: An Expedition through Time (2004)
The Truth about Poop (2004)
Skyscraper: From the Ground Up (2004)
What do you do…at the Zoo? (2002)
What do you do…on the Farm? (2002)
Children’s Series
Random House Step Into Reading Transportation Series (4 books)
Brave Kids Early Readers (3 books)
Ultimate Fieldtrips 1-5
Work Published in:
Your Big Backyard, Ranger Rick, Outside Kids; National Geographic Traveler, National Wildlife, Child, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Parents, Self, Outside Kids, Yankee, Horticulture, Science, the LA Times Syndicate, The New York Times Syndication, and others.
Awards
ALA Notable, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book, 12 books nominated for State Book Awards, 6 Junior Library Guild selections, Parent’s Choice Award, Reading Magic Award, Best Books of its year lists include The Washington Post, Bank Street, Cybils Awards, Children’s Book Council, Booklist, Book Link, ABA, VOYA, Chicago Public Library, National Science Teacher’s Assn, and National Council of Social Studies.
Current Affiliation
PEN New England (Children’s Book Caucus, the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award)
Past affiliation
Contributing editor for General Learning Corporation