Patricia Lauber (1924–2010)
Author of Volcanoes and Earthquakes
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
Who discovered America?: Settlers and explorers of the New World before the time of Columbus (1970) 28 copies
Changing the face of North America;: The challenge of the St. Lawrence Seaway (Challenge books) (1959) 3 copies
Clarence vinner pris 2 copies
The planets 2 copies
What You Never Knew 1 copy
Icebergs and glaciers 1 copy
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- 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
Clarence Goes to Town
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!
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.
A non-fiction Newbery Honor Book about the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and the area's subsequent regrowth. Eh. Clearly meant for kids, but it accomplishes this in simplistic language only. I mean, come on, this is a cool topic, so a book for kids about it should be more interesting than this one is. Also, the photos included were weirdly hard to figure out; for example, some of them were meant to focus on something that was *way* in the background of the actual photo, and a couple had blurbs that talked about features of the mountain that I could not find in the photo at all. Some sort of arrow pointing out said feature would have been great and seems like an obvious necessity to me. Anyway. I'll file this one in the Could Have Been Cool But Missed the Boat box.… (more)
How can we be so sure of shat ancient life was like? Largely because mummies have begun to "talk" to scientists. X-rays allow scientists to study mummies that have never been unwrapped. Scientists can examine the bones of a mummy and figure out the age at death, signs of disease, and fractures that healed
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- Works
- 106
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- Rating
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