Patricia Lauber
Winner! Children's Science Literature

Patricia Lauber is the author of more than 125 books for young readers. Many of them are in the field of science, and their range reflects the diversity of her own interests-bats, dolphins, dogs, volcanoes, earthquakes, the ice ages, the Everglades, the planets, earthworms. Two of her books, Seeds: Pop Stick Glide and Journey to the Planets, were nonfiction nominees for The American Book Awards. She was the 1983 winner of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children's nonfiction literature. Her book, Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens was a Newbery Honor Book.
As well as writing books, Ms. Lauber has been editor of Junior Scholastic, editor-in-chief of Science World, and chief editor, science and mathematics, of The New Book of Knowledge.
A graduate of Wellesley College, she is married and lives in Connecticut. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, sailing, traveling, cooking, reading, and listening to music.

Books by Patricia Lauber:

The True-or-False Book of Dogs (HarperCollins, 2003)
Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans (National Geographic, 2003)
The True-or-False Book of Horses (HarperCollins, 2000)
Tiger Has a Toothache (National Geographic, 1999)
Living with Dinosaurs (Aladdin, 1999)
Dinosaurs Walked Here (1999)
What Do You See (Random House, 1998)
Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms (Scholastic, 1996)
Flood (National Geographic, 1996)
How Dinosaurs Came to Be (1996)
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs (HarperCollins, 1995)
Earthworms: Underground Farmers (1994)
Furs, Feathers, and Flippers: How Animals Live Where They Do (Scholastic, 1994)
Be a Friend to Trees (HarperCollins, 1994)
Great Whales: The Gentle Giants (1993)
Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988 (Orchard, 1991)
How We Learned the Earth Is Round (1990)
Seeing Earth from Space (Orchard, 1990)
An Octopus Is Amazing (1990)
Voyagers from space: Meteors and meteorites (1989)
The News about Dinosaurs (1989)
Plants (Random House, 1987)
Dinosaurs Walked Here and other Stories Fossils Tell (1987)
Volcano (Doubleday, 1986)
Volcanoes and Earthquakes (1985)
Journey to the Planets (Knopf, 1984)
Tapping Earth's Heat (1978)
Science Book of Volcanoes (1978)
Great Whales (1975)
Life on a Giant Cactus (1974)
Too Much Garbage (1974)
This Restless Earth (1970)
The Planets (1968)
The Look-It-Up Book of Mammals (Random House, 1967)
The look-it-up-book of stars and planets (Random House, 1967)
Junior science book of volcanoes (Junior science books, 1965)
Junior science book of penguins (Junior science books, 1963)
All About the Ice Age (Random House, 1959)
Our friend the forest: A conservation story (Doubleday, 1959)

 

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