pellauthorDec 12, 20223 minINTRODUCING CHILDREN TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: WHERE SCIENCE MEETS LITERACYNew! Free Study Guides for Teachers So here I am. I did it. I wrote three children’s books about rescuing endangered species —ResQ and...
pellauthorJun 22, 20223 minIf frogs are everywhere why set the latest ResQ book in Panamá?Why I wrote about frogs is pretty easy to understand. Rather than take time up in this blog you can listen to the trailer for my book and...
pellauthorApr 29, 20222 minDon’t Let These Beautiful Frogs “Slip” Through Our Fingers!Today, April 29, 2022 we observe World Frog Day. It got me thinking about frogs and my early history with them. Roll back the clock to...
pellauthorJun 5, 20203 minToday is World Environment Day – Last night I had the strangest dreamI know this is going to sound crazy but we had a storm last night and I went outside afterwards to straighten out the chairs on my patio....
pellauthorApr 22, 20204 minEarth Day Fifty Years Ago — Where Are We Now?On April 22, 1970 I was a second-year graduate student at Rutgers University studying the effects of air pollution on vegetation. My...
pellauthorNov 21, 20192 minHow do we prepare our children to survive a planet in flux?In May the U.N. released a report suggestion that one million animals and plants could go extinct over the next few decades. As we have...
pellauthorOct 3, 20192 minReVISIONS or How I Learned to Write for KidsThis is the story of my journey to become a writer of children’s books. Why was it so hard? I had a long career as a scientist. I had...
pellauthorApr 17, 20192 minWhy is my first book about orangutans? I could tell you its because when I stared into the soulful eyes of one of the orangutans at the National Zoo, I fell in love. That’s...