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Ginger Wadsworth
Children's Author and Naturalist

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PUBLISHED: Aug.13.2013

Yosemite's Songster: One Coyote's Story

Will Coyote ever find her mate? A tremendous crash of granite boulders separates Coyote and her mate, and she must search throughout Yosemite Valley to find him. She passes mighty Half Dome, pauses by Sentinel Bridge, and hunts in Stoneman Meadow. Readers will delight in spotting the places they, too, have visited as Coyote, sometimes silent, occasionally observed, always watchful...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.06.2012

First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low

When Juliette Gordon was growing up in the late 1800s, she climbed trees, swam in rivers, and hiked on tall cliffs. With her cousins and friends, she sewed costumes and put on plays, sketched and painted, and reached out to help other kids who were less fortunate. Her story starts in Savannah at the beginning of the Civil War and spans the Spanish American War and World War I. In...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2009

Camping with the President

Winner of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award for Children's Literature! What happened when President Theodore Roosevelt went camping in California's Yosemite wilderness with naturalist John Muir in 1903? While enjoying the wonders of this magical place, they talked about birds, giant sequoia trees and glaciers, as well as the importance of preserving wilderness for future...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2009

Up, Up, and Away

This is one spider's adventure-filled journey to survive danger and find a home of her own. See the book trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1L9rkLfPtI

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

Survival in the Snow

Can Moses Schallenberger, a 17 year old, survive a winter alone in the mountains of California near present-day Donner Lake? This is a true covered-wagon survival story set in 1844.

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PUBLISHED: Nov.30.2006

Woolly Mammoths

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2005

Annie Oakley

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PUBLISHED: May.30.2005

Cesar Chavez

A biography of Cesar Chavez, an individual who tried to help improve migrant farmworkers' lives by showing them how they could get paid more, be treated better, and become United States citizens.

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PUBLISHED: Nov.17.2003

Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers

Among the tens of thousands of pioneers who left home in covered wagons in the 1800s, headed for the West in hopes of fertile land, gold, or escape from religious or racial persecution, some forty thousand were children. Though the hardships and dangers of the trail were many, these children also witnessed the great and wild beauty of the untouched West and became an integral part...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2003

The Wright Brothers

A biography of the two inventors whose 1903 powered, controlled flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, made history.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2003

Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist

Introduces Benjamin Banneker, a free black man of the eighteenth century who loved to learn and used his knowledge and observations to build a wooden clock, write an almanac, and help survey the streets of Washington, D.C.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2002

River Discoveries

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2000

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's life as a pioneer girl and her work as a writer describing that life for others.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.1999

Tundra Discoveries

Describes the behavior of thirteen different animals, including caribou, arctic foxes, lemmings, and owls, during one full year on the arctic tundra.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1999

One Tiger Growls

Briefly describes the behavior of and sounds made by various animals, from one growling tiger to twenty croaking frogs.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.1997

One on a Web

One spider clings to her web, two raccoons nap in a log, three baby robins sit in their nest . . . what do they have in common? They all have special homes. With an informative text and captivating illustrations, Ginger Wadsworth and Jim Needham count from one to twenty as they introduce a score of fascinating creatures and the places they live.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1997

Desert Discoveries

At first glance, the desert seems dry, big and empty. But upon a second look, you'd be surprised! This book introduces many desert dwellers. During the heat of the day, kangaroo rats sleep in their burrows while lizards sunbathe on rocks. At night, while roadrunners rest, bats wheel through the sky and coyotes howl at the moon. Full-color illustrations.

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.1996

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Storyteller of the Prairie

Tells the life story of the author of the "Little House" books from her childhood in Wisconsin to her death at Rocky Ridge Farm at the age of ninety.

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1995

Giant Sequoia Trees

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1994

Tomorrow is Daddy's Birthday

Full-color illustrations follow Rachel as she whispers her secret--Daddy's present--to her rabbit, her baby brother, and everyone else she sees.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1994

Susan Butcher: Sled Dog Racer

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PUBLISHED: Jun.01.1993

Along the Santa Fe Trail

An adaptation of Marion Russell's book Land of Enchantment describes her eventful 1852 journey with her mother and brother from Kansas to California over the Santa Fe trail in a large wagon train.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.1992

John Muir: Wilderness Protector

A biography of the naturalist and explorer who helped found the Sierra Club and was influential in the development of our national park system.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.1992

Rachel Carson: Voice for the Earth

A biography of the biologist and environmentalist author describes Carson's early childhood, her early books about undersea life, her growing concern for the environment, the publication of the controversial book, Silent Spring, and her battle against cancer.

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Sep.04.2009 - 9:10 pm

Weaving Words

-- Or, How I Came to Write Up, Up, and Away -- "Where do you get your ideas?" is the question I always get from students during school visits. Most authors would agree...

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Feb.04.2012

First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low

Published by Wall Street Journal

"...a good-looking volume, illustrated with historical photographs, set on pages that resemble pale green embroidered linen and sparkling with the force of Low's enthusiasm."

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Video: Trailer for Camping with the President

Video: Trailer for Up, Up, and Away, one of my 2009 books

About Ginger

I have a reputation for being a research junkie and in my house, that means tiptoeing around boxes (my style of file cabinets) in my office, stacks of “very important” papers, and teetering towers of reference books that don’t fit into my floor-to-ceiling...

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Ginger WadsworthChildren's Author and Naturalist

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Ginger Wadsworth
Children's Author and Naturalist