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"Elephant for Breakfast," Humpty Dumpty,June/July 1988
A healthy, no cook recipe

"Snowbuggies,"Cricket,June/July 1988, also on CD-ROM SIRS Discoverer Electronic Database.
Springtails, minute insects that emerge to hop on the snow in midwinter.

"Ella Cara Deloria: Bridge Between Cultures,"Cricket,March 1997, also on CD-ROM SIRS Discoverer Electronic Database. Smithsonian Online: Kids Castle
The Sioux woman who recorded her tribes' customs and culture.

"It Takes Guts to be a PC," Flicker Magazine,May 1997
A tour of the innards of a Personal Computer.

"Facing the Dragon: Preparing for a Manuscript Critique," The Children's Writer, Dec. 1997
Tips for writers on how to get ready for a manuscript critique.

"Packaged for Winter," Highlights,December 1997
How acorns sustain woodland animals through the winter.

"Voice from the Heart," The Children's Writer, Oct 1998
Interview with Amy Flynn, editor at Houghton Mifflin, Wendy Lamb, executive editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell and authors Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Graham Salisbury on voice in writing.

"The Non-fiction Query," Children's Book Market, Institute of Children's Literature, 1999
Sample format to use when querying for non-fiction.

"Seeds: From Plant to Package," On the Line, June 2000
How seeds are processed and packaged.

"Living Side by Side" Guideposts for Kids, July/Aug 2000

"Reaching for the Moon" The Children's Writer, Aug 2000
An Interview with Robert Holtzman and Cate Monroe, Founders of Moon Mountain Publishing.

UPCOMING NON-FICTION

"The Blob From Inner Space," Ranger Rick,
Slime mold, an organism with characteristics of both fungi and animals.

"The Salt Marsh,"Ladybug
How life adjusts to the tides in a saltmarsh.

"Captain Cook and the Labyrinth," Cricket
A tale of Captain Cook's shipwreck on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

"Harried Horeshoes," Cricket