Melissa Stewart
Melissa Stewart is an award-winning author of more than 200 science books for children, specializing in nature and nonfiction topics. Born in 1968 in Hartford, Connecticut, she earned a B.S. in biology from Union College in 1990 and an M.A. in science journalism from New York University in 1991, worked as a science editor, and became a full-time writer in 2000. Her works, such as 'Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers' and 'Can an Aardvark Bark?', have received honors including Sibert Honor and NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books.
children's nonfiction
science
nature
National Geographic Kids: Snakes!
New World Monkeys (Nature Watch (Lerner))
You've Got Nerve!: The Secrets of the Brain and Nerves
Zoom in on Dragonflies
Do People Really Have Tiny Insects Living in Their Eyelashes?: And Other Questions about the Microscopic World
Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms?: And Other Questions about Dinosaurs
Zoom In on Fireflies
How Is My Brain Like a Supercomputer?: And Other Questions about The Human Body
Cell Biology (Great Ideas of Science)
Life in a Wetland (Ecosystems in Action)
Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms?: And Other Questions about Dinosaurs
Classification of Life (Great Ideas of Science)
Inside Volcanoes
Zoom In on Dragonflies (Zoom In on Insects!)
Inside Earthquakes
Zoom In on Grasshoppers (Zoom In on Insects!)
Why Are Animals Purple? (Rainbow of Animals)
Tim Berners-Lee (Ferguson Career Biographies)
National Geographic Readers: Wolverines (L3)
Atoms (Simple Science)
Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep: 50 Award-Winning Children's Book Authors Share the Secret of Engaging Writing
A Place for Turtles
National Geographic Readers: Deadly Predators
How Does Sand Become Glass? (How Does It Happen?)