How We Learned the Earth Is Roundby Patricia Lauber, Megan Lloyd
Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social
"Lauber explains how perceptions of the earth's shape have changed since early times, describes the methods of reasoning that led the early Greeks to conclude the earth is spherically shaped, and shows children how to re-create this logic for themselves. A simple explanation of a rather complex idea." BL.
Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
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.
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