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Climbing the Volcano, now available, has two starred reviews and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection!  Read more >

The Rescuer of Tiny Creatures is a Blueberry Award Changemaker book for 2022 and was named a Nautilus Award Gold Winner for 2022!   Read more >

Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet was awarded an American Institute of Physics 2020 Science Communication Award and named a Golden Kite Honor Book for 2020! Also, STEM activities about finding exoplanets and how our Earth is “just right” for us are now available!   Read more >

Shawn Loves Sharks won a 2018 Washington State Book Award!
It was also named to the Bank Street College of Education Best Books list for 2018, and nominated for the Washington State Children’s Choice Picture Book Award for 2019!   Read more >

The Crane Girl has won both a 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award and the 2017 Freeman Book Award for East and Southeast Asian children’s literature!   Read more >

5 books

I write for young people of all ages and strive to create fun books with facts about the world around us and truths about the worlds within.


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You can order a signed copy of any of my five books (shown above) from Island Books, an independent bookstore near Seattle, WA.

You can either call them at (206) 232-6920 or order online using this link and in the last field of information to fill out (“Order comments”) specify that you want the copies to be signed by the author; if you want any of them inscribed for individual people, you need to specify that, too.

The shipping charge for books is a minimum of $4.50 (USPS media rate); faster delivery costs more.


my daughter talking about aliens-- blue dragonfly