PAMELA S. TURNER
 Houghton Mifflin, 2009  Charlesbrige, 2008  Houghton Mifflin, 2005  Houghton Mifflin, 2004 |
Welcome to my website! A LIFE IN THE WILD recently won the 2008 Golden Kite for best nonfiction children's book from the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators, as well as the Northern California Book Award for Children's Literature. LIFE ON EARTH--AND BEYOND was named one of the best children's books of the year by the Bank Street College of Education.  THE FROG SCIENTIST (Houghton Mifflin, 2009), chronicles the work of Dr. Tyrone Hayes and his studies of the effect of pesticides on frogs. PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS (Wallker Young Readers, 2009) follows the tracks of five animals in the Tagging of Pacific Predators project: a leatherback sea turtle, a white shark, a bluefin tuna, and a pair of sooty shearwater seabirds. COMET CHASER (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 I think), is an illustrated picture book about Caroline Herschel, an 18th-century woman astronomer. Or at least it will be an illustrated book as soon as the editor and I can settle on an illustrator. PROJECT SEAHORSE (Houghton Mifflin, Spring 2010) will use the always-charming seahorse to introduce children to coral reef biology and conservation, as well as showing them what it's like to live in a small fishing village in the Philippines.  Scott Tuason took the gorgeous images that appear in my upcoming book, PROJECT SEAHORSE I hadn't been to the Philippines in a number of years. My oldest son was born in Manila 22 years ago, and when my husband's job took us back to San Francisco a year later, I departed (almost) kicking and screaming. It was wonderful to be back among the Filipinos, who are some of the kindest, friendliest people in the world. Right up there with Fijians and Ugandans in my national personality ratings system. Through a chain of friends I was lucky enough to find Scott Tuason, a local underwater photographer who (bless his heart) lugged tons of gear to little Handumon and captured some incredible shots for PROJECT SEAHORSE. |
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