This Saturday, I will be signing books at the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, NH. I hope you can stop by!
On May 26th, I visited The Orchard School in South Burlington, VT. It was a fantastic visit, thanks to the excellent librarians, Donna MacDonald and Louise Larocque (who happens to be my neighbor), great teachers and of course the fabulous students. Thanks, Orchard School for making it one of the best visits I’ve done all [...]
About a year ago, I was happy to learn that Redwoods was selected as a Red Clover book. The Red Clover Award Program is a statewide initiative to promote reading in Vermont. Each year 10 books are selected and librarians across the state read them to elementary school children. Curriculums are often planned around the [...]
A few weeks ago, I received a number of questions about Redwoods from students at the JFK Elementary School in Winooski, VT. Here are the questions and the answers that I gave them. Thanks for the great questions, JFK Elementary! 1. I liked the book “Redwoods”. Did you actually go to California to study Redwood [...]
Last Thursday I had two school visits in one day. In the morning I visited the Peacham Elementary School, and in the afternoon I visited Barnet Elementary School. Both schools were excitedly celebrating the Red Clover books and I was happy to be able to talk with them about Redwoods. It was a great day, [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the Porters Point Elementary School in Colchester, VT. The students and faculty were great, and I had a wonderful time. They were celebrating all of the Red Clover Award books last week and put up a slideshow of their activities. Click on the picture below to see [...]
It’s not easy to find a picture of Hyperion, the world’s tallest tree, but yesterday I found a great composite photo on Robert Krulwich’s blog. He’s a great writer, so I recommend that everyone read his post. The photo is so good though, I’ve taken the liberty of sharing it with you here.
I’m a big fan of Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, hosts of one of my favorite radio programs, Radiolab. Today I was browsing Krulwich’s blog and I was very happy to find this post about the world’s tallest tree (tallest known living thing, actually). He’s a great writer, and you should all read the article. In [...]
Last week Coral Reefs was made available for pre-order and the cover was revealed. Here it is: Support local bookstores by using Indiebound.org to find a store near you where you can pre-order Coral Reefs.
In my post, Corals: Nature’s Greatest Builders, I wrote about how corals build reefs, but I didn’t write about how corals themselves grow. Here is an explanation (like the previous post, I am focusing on hard corals): Most corals start as a single polyp. The polyp divides in two**, then those divide into four and [...]
