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ENERGY won an award!

ENERGY won an award!

Hey, just heard that my third book, Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It just won a children’s book award! It got a silver medal in the environment category. How fun is that?! … Read entire article »

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Yay! Nice Energy review

Yay! Nice Energy review

So, I was trying to find a “toot your own horn” category to place this under, but the idea of ego-stroking still makes me squirm — maybe a leftover token from my Catholic upbringing? So I’ll just file this under “education.” But in any event, the National Science Teachers Association has a really generous review of my third book, Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get it. Many thanks to … Read entire article »

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Energize, Scotty! Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power…

Energize, Scotty! Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power…

Totally tickled to announce my new book is out! Energy: 25 Projects Investigate Why We Need Power and How We Get It just showed up on my doorstep late last week. (My next book is Titles: How to Make Them As Long As Possible and Why We Do It, coming soon.) It looks pretty slick — the illustrator did a fun job with the pictures and the layout team really did a super job. If you’ve got … Read entire article »

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