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There’s a reason why fish-out-of-water stories grab us. When characters are uprooted from what they know—when they are bewildered, baffled, and alone—they are either going to sink…or shine on. We really wonder which one. And how. We like to see the ways humans make sense of their worlds.
Whether it’s my own story as a wandering, global child; the story of how people came face-to-face with a rhinoceros; or stories of how humans began to puzzle out the bits that were left of an ancient Earth, I write a lot of fish-out-of-water stories.
Jump in with me. The water’s fine. We have lives and mysteries to explore.
Two new books about the wide, wide world ... ... what it’s like to learn about it and what it’s like to travel across its borders.
of Dinosaur Discovery
True Stories
A new picture book biography! Long before “Jurassic” meant adventure, one woman’s curiosity helped uncover a lost world. Discover her story in Mary Morland in the Time of Dinosaur Discovery — a pioneering journey into the dawn of paleontology.
Jane’s almost true story in verse about her elementary school year of traveling between Ethiopia, Africa and Boise, Idaho with the questions, “Where do I belong?” and “What does it mean to call a place home, anyway?”
