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Patricia Lauber (1924–2010)

Author of Volcanoes and Earthquakes

110+ Works 10,776 Members 145 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Patricia Lauber was born in New York City and graduated from Wellesley College. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 125 children's books including the Around-the-House History series, the Clarence the TV Dog series, and contributions to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. Volcano: show more Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens received a Newbery Honor in 1986. In 1983, she received The Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children's nonfiction literature. Besides being an author, she was also an editor of Junior Scholastic and editor-in-chief of Science World. She died on March 12, 2010 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Patricia Lauber

Volcanoes and Earthquakes (1985) 1,318 copies
Who Eats What? (1995) 904 copies
Be a Friend to Trees (1994) 649 copies
Snakes Are Hunters (1988) 504 copies
An Octopus is Amazing (1990) 404 copies
Tales Mummies Tell (1985) 262 copies
The News About Dinosaurs (1989) 218 copies
What Big Teeth You Have! (1986) 197 copies
The Friendly Dolphins (1963) 188 copies
Seeing Earth From Space (1990) 140 copies
Clarence Goes to Town (1957) 115 copies
Champ: Gallant Collie (1960) 111 copies
Clarence, The TV Dog (1955) 105 copies
All About the Planets (1960) — Author — 94 copies
Summer of Fire (1991) 80 copies
All About the Ice Age (1777) 73 copies
Get Ready for Robots! (1878) 71 copies
Seeds: Pop-Stick-Glide (1987) 68 copies
Famous Mysteries of the Sea (1962) 62 copies
Journey to the planets (1984) 52 copies
Living with Dinosaurs (1991) 48 copies
Clarence Takes a Vacation (1959) 47 copies
All About the Planet Earth (1962) 36 copies
The Runaway Flea Circus (1958) 23 copies
Earthquakes (TW 2305) (1972) 20 copies
The Quest of Louis Pasteur (1960) 17 copies
Bats; wings in the night (1968) 15 copies
Jokes and More Jokes (1963) 15 copies
The story of numbers (1961) 13 copies
Your body and how it works (1962) 13 copies
The Quest of Galileo (1959) 12 copies
How Dinosaurs Came to Be (1996) 11 copies
Tapping Earth's Heat (1978) 10 copies
Who Needs Alligators? (1974) 8 copies
Crazy tales (1975) 7 copies
SCIENCE BOOK OF VOLCANOES (1969) 7 copies
This Restless Earth (1970) 5 copies
Sea Otters and Seaweed (1976) 5 copies
The Story of Dogs (1966) 4 copies
Of Man and Mouse (1971) 3 copies
Too much garbage (1974) 2 copies
The planets 2 copies
Magic up your sleeve (1954) 2 copies
Penguins on Parade (1958) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories (1964) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Look-It-Up Book of the 50 States (1967) — some editions — 26 copies

Tagged

animals (284) astronomy (44) biography (96) biology (43) children (59) children's (112) children's books (31) dinosaurs (57) dogs (45) earth (96) earth science (86) ecology (33) environment (39) fiction (64) food (28) food chain (48) food chains (43) geography (41) geology (65) habitats (30) history (162) hurricanes (34) informational (86) Let's Read and Find Out (65) natural disasters (38) nature (118) non-fiction (562) ocean (48) octopus (30) picture book (155) planets (33) plants (57) reptiles (41) science (763) science nonfiction (30) snakes (59) space (81) trees (91) volcanoes (132) weather (79)

Common Knowledge

Legal name
Frost, Patricia Lauber
Birthdate
1924-02-05
Date of death
2010-03-12
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Occupations
children's book author
editor-in-chief
editor
Organizations
Scholastic Magazine
Heifer International
Science World
Short biography
Patricia Lauber's favorite book from what she wrote was the first, Clarence the TV Dog (source: Home at Last! : A Young Cat's Tale).

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Reviews

- Age: Intermediate

- About the history of how forks and chopsticks became to be. They start in the caveman time and go through the stone age all the way to modern times.

- I probably would not have this in my classroom as it is really detailed and long talking about both about utensils and the era. It might be interesting to read after learning about the different eras as it is bridges them all together.
 
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sabmcd | 10 other reviews | Mar 5, 2024 |
EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
 
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MamaBearLendingDen | 7 other reviews | Dec 8, 2023 |
Charming short stories really, each chapter is a new adventure that Clarence has with his young owners...all very simple and everyday sorts of fun. I love children's book from the 1950's for this very reason!
 
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Martialia | Sep 28, 2022 |
An excellent elementary level discussion of Mount St. Helens and its eruption of 1980. Contains good before and after photos and diagrams; however, this book was published in 1986, so the "healing" part of the text is missing over 35 years of data.
 
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mebrock | 18 other reviews | Oct 1, 2021 |

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Statistics

Works
110
Also by
2
Members
10,776
Popularity
#2,203
Rating
3.9
Reviews
145
ISBNs
274
Languages
5
Favorited
1

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