Laurence Pringle
Winner! Children's Science Literature

Laurence Pringle is an award-winning author of over a hundred books about nature, science, health, and environmental issues, including Sharks! Strange and Wonderful, Dinosaurs! Strange and Wonderful, Bats! Strange and Wonderful and Dog of Discovery: A Newfoundland's Adventures with Lewis and Clark. His fiction includes Octopus Hug and Naming the Cat.
One Room School, features his nostalgic and humorous recollections of his days attending School 14, a one-room schoolhouse near Rochester in Monroe County, New York.
A native of that area, Laurence is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a former science teacher and magazine editor.
A full-time writer since the 1970s, Laurence has received numerous awards for his books, including national awards from the American Nature Study Society and the National Wildlife Federation. Scores of his books, including Everybody Has a Bellybutton (1997), have been cited by the National Science Teacher's Association/Children's Book Council as an "Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children." In 1998, the National Council of Teachers of English selected his book An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly for the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children. He is the 1999 recipient of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, which honors an author for significant contributions to informational books for children. He lives with his wife and children in West Nyack, New York.

Books by Laurence Pringle:

Snakes!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 2004)
Come to the Ocean's Edge: A Natural Cycle Book (Boyds Mills, 2003)
Whales!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 2003)
Crows!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 2002)
Strange Animals, New to Science (Marshall Cavendish, 2002)
Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate (Seastar, 2001)
Scholastic Encyclopedia of Animals (Scholastic, 2001)
A Dragon in the Sky: The Story of a Green Darner Dragonfly (Orchard, 2001)
Sharks!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 2001)
The Environmental Movement (HarperCollins, 2000)
Bats!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 2000)
The Environmental Movement (HarperCollins, 2000)
Hearing (Explore Your Senses) (Benchmark, 1999)
Sight (Explore Your Senses) (Benchmark, 1999)
Smell (Explore Your Senses) (Benchmark, 1999)
Taste (Explore Your Senses) (Benchmark, 1999)
Touch (Explore Your Senses) (Benchmark, 1999)
Elephant Woman : Cynthia Moss Explores the World of Elephants (1997)
Everybody Has a Bellybutton: Your Life Before You Were Born (Boyds Mills, 1997)
An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly (Orchard Books, 1997)
Animal Monsters: The Truth About Scary Creatures (Benchmark, 1997)
Nature! Wild and Wonderful (1997)
Taking Care of the Earth: Kids in Action (Boyds Mills, 1996)
Dinosaurs!: Strange and Wonderful (Boyds Mills, 1995)
Fire in the Forest : A Cycle of Growth and Renewal (Antheneum, 1995)
Coral Reefs : Earth's Undersea Treasures (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
"The Earth Is Flat" and Other Great Mistakes (Avon Books, 1995)
Vanishing Ozone: Protecting Earth from Ultraviolet Radiation (HarperCollins, 1995)
Scorpion Man : Exploring the World of Scorpions (Antheneum, 1994)
Antarctica: The Last Unspoiled Continent (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
Living Treasure: Saving Earth's Threatened Biodiversity (Morrow, 1991)
Killer Bees (Morrow, 1990)
Global Warming: Assessing the Greenhouse Threat (1990)
Home: How Animals Find Comfort and Safety (Scribner, 1987)
Restoring Our Earth (Enslow, 1986)
Rivers and Lakes (Planet Earth Series) (Timelife, 1985)
Being a Plant (1983)
Water: The Next Great Resource Battle (Science for Survival Series) (Antheneum, 1982)
Frost Hollows and Other Microclimates (Morrow, 1981)
Lives at Stake: The Science and Politics of Environmental Health (Science for Survival Series) (1980)
Natural Fire: Its Ecology in Forests (Morrow, 1979)
Dinosaurs and People: Fossils, Facts, and Fantasies (Harcourt, 1978)
The Gentle Desert: Exploring an Ecosystem (Antheneum, 1978)
The Hidden World: Life Under a Rock (Antheneum, 1977)
Animals and their niches: How species share resources (Morrow, 1977)
Discovering Nature Indoors: A Nature and Science Guide to Investigations With Small Animals (Doubleday, 1976)
City and Suburb: Exploring an Ecosystem (1975)
Chains, Webs, and Pyramids: The Flow of Energy in Nature (1975)
Into the Woods: Exploring the Forest Ecosystem (Atheneum, 1973)
Estuaries; Where Rivers Meet the Sea (1973)
Twist, Wiggle, and Squirm: A Book About Earthworms (1973)
From Pond to Prairie: The Changing World of a Pond and Its Life (1972)
Wild river (1972)
Cockroaches: Here, There and Everywhere (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Books) (1971)
Ecology: Science of Survival (1971)
One Earth, Many People: The Challenge of Human Population Growth (1971)
In a beaver valley;: How beavers change the land (The Discovering nature series) (1970)
The Only Earth We Have (Antheneum, 1969)
Dinosaurs and their world (1968)

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