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Sibert Honor Children's Book Author & Environmentalist
  • Home
  • Books
    • Sharks Unhooked: The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger
    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
    • QuickReads Fluency Library
    • Books for English language-learners
    • Writers write all kinds of things
  • Author Visit Programs
    • FAQs
    • Calendar
  • Blog
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    • STEM + Literacy Activities
    • Teacher Guides
    • Earth Day Every Day newsletter archive
    • LitLinks
    • KidLit creators who make kids want to read
  • Writer Resources
    • Writing Classes
    • Manuscript or Proposal Critiques
    • How I got my start
  • Who is Patricia Newman?
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a newsletter that integrates practical environmental research with effective classroom connections

Inside each issue of Earth Day Every Day…

  • a personal musing on some aspect of writing nonfiction for children
  • environmental media that resonates with me
  • how to engage children, tweens, and teens with that particular media using an Earth Day Every Day mindset and my books as literature links
  • news about my work in the media and what’s coming next

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Current Issue

05.13.2025               Read now

  • The First World Ocean Day
  • Our ocean is us!
    • The importance of ocean literacy
    • Ocean Principle #1: We have only one ocean
  • How to teach Ocean Principle #1 — look at a map
  • Patricia on the road in Pennsylvania and Maryland for school visits

Past Issues

04.09.2025               Read now

  • The Origins of Earth Day
  • Depressing Headlines
  • Why we must Teach the Hope
    • Focus on the WHY of nature
    • Focust on the HOW of nature
    • Introduce to children and youth to civic heroes
    • Give kids a problem to solve
  • Patricia in the News
    • At Ruby’s Bookstore in Folsom, CA
    • Book Flood Podcast
    • How I research
    • Add interviewing to your writer’s toolbox

03.12.2025               Read now

  • Teach the Hope
  • Food Waste
  • How our choices affect the environment
    • Audit the food we eat
    • The Challenge of Overfishing — cooking video
    • Can we eat more sustainably?
  • At CSLA and the Santa Barbara Author Go-Round

02.12.2025               Read now

  • On Gratitude for Nature
  • The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report
  • How our choices affect the environment
    • Identifying Problems and Solutions
    • Identifying Positive and Negative Effects
    • The Challenge of Overfishing
  • STEM Teacher Summit video

01.08.2025               Read now

  • STEM Thinking
  • “The Great Elephant Migration” across the U.S.
  • 3+ ways to incorporate elephants into your kids’ lives
    • How much do you know about elephants?
    • How do we communicate?
    • Play Elephant Tag
    • PLUS a KidLit TV video about listening to elephants and other forest sound
  • “For Elephant Lovers” – a Pinterest board with all things elephant

12.11.2024               Read now

  • A Birthday Wish
  • Our Environmental Education Report Card
  • 3 ways to incorporate enviro ed into your lives
    • How does your cereal affect orangutans?
    • Looking at nature with a different perspective
    • The endangered species project
  • 6 questions about Giant Rays of Hope

11.13.2024               Read now

  • Student questions during an author visit
  • Bioplastics
  • 3 activities that raise awareness about single-use plastic
  • Lesson plan to decode photos in STEM nonfiction
  • How text and photos work together to help me dive to the heart of my books
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Q & A

21 May 2015
I learned...

Appearance Calendar – Writing Workshops

21 May 2015
Great Valley Bookfest

Festivals

29 Oct 2015

Write!

20 May 2015
Empowering young readers to act

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  • Home
  • Books
    • Sharks Unhooked: The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger
    • Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea
    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
    • QuickReads Fluency Library
    • Books for English language-learners
    • Writers write all kinds of things
  • Author Visit Programs
    • FAQs
    • Calendar
  • Blog
  • Educator Resources
    • STEM + Literacy Activities
    • Teacher Guides
    • Earth Day Every Day newsletter archive
    • LitLinks
    • KidLit creators who make kids want to read
  • Writer Resources
    • Writing Classes
    • Manuscript or Proposal Critiques
    • How I got my start
  • Who is Patricia Newman?
  • Contact
    • Stay In Touch
    • Earth Day Every Day newsletter archive