Pub Date: January 1, 1994
Dewey: 582.16
LCCN: 92024082
Lexile Code: 0570
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 0.10" H x 7.60" L x 9.50" W ( 0.25 lbs) 32 pages
Description: Everything that is made of paper and wood comes from trees, a valuable natural resource that adds oxygen to the air. This book explains how young conservationists can help protect trees and also incorporates other basic environmental concepts.
Brief description:
Patricia Lauber is the author of more than sixty-five 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.
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.