Tag: STEAM

What’s So Cool About Science?

In September, I had the opportunity to share the inspiration for my book FROGNESS along with some of the things […]

Story ideas come from all over and everywhere. From watching and listening and reading. From memories, mistakes, dreams, ducks . […]

I went to graduate school in an extremely rainy place, where despite the wet, I walked almost everywhere. One morning, […]

As an apartment-dweller, parks are my backyard. I spend parts of many days meandering tree-lined trails, smelling flower blossoms (or […]

I would love to say that while I was writing BIRTH OF THE BICYCLE (Candlewick, 2022), I was taking inspiration […]

Originally published on Michelle Bruhn’s Forks in the Dirt Blog. Weather makes the garden grow. This is a simple truth […]

Why I Write Books About Nature This essay was originally published in Bookology Magazine. I was a free-range kid before “free-range” […]