PAMELA S. TURNER
  Houghton Mifflin, 2009  Charlesbrige, 2008  Houghton Mifflin, 2005  Houghton Mifflin, 2004 |
THE FROG SCIENTIST just won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for middle-grade science writing. Watch the book trailer below: THE FROG SCIENTIST won an Orbis Pictus Honor Award and was named an American Library Association Notable Book. PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS is now available in bookstores and online. A LIFE IN THE WILD and THE FROG SCIENTIST were named Top Ten Sci-Tech Books for Youth by Booklist. THE FROG SCIENTIST is a finalist for the 2010 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Science Writing Prize, and a Cybils nominee, along with A LIFE IN THE WILD. THE FROG SCIENTIST received starred reviews from Booklist, School Library Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and The Horn Book. A LIFE IN THE WILD 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.  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. In June 2008 I traveled to Handumon, a small village on a small island off Bohol, a larger island in the central Philippines. I spent ten days following around a Project Seahorse team as they measured seahorses, gathered data on coral growth and fish populations, and interviewed local fishers about their lives and work. Many thanks to Amanda Vincent, Heather Koldewey, Amado Blanco, and the rest of the Project Seahorse team. 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 Filipinos, who are some of the kindest, friendliest people in the world.  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 backamong the Filipinos, who are some of the kindest, friendliest people in the world. |
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