Author and Storyteller

  

 

New Books:

 

Discovering Black Bears
Dog Eared Publications, 2007
A science based activity book for children.

 

 
   

Olla-piska: Tales of David Douglas
Cover Illustrated by Ellen Beier
University of Washington Press

A historical novel based on the journal of botanist David Douglas (Douglas of the Douglas fir), who explored the Pacific Northwest early in the nineteenth century in search of plants that would grow in English gardens.

~Winner of the Stevens Literary Prize, 2005
~An Oregon Book Award finalist, 2007

  
Charles Darwin: Naturalist
(Enslow Publishers, Inc. 2008)

Charles Darwin was a quiet naturalist who sparked a storm with his theory of evolution. His ideas opened up a new way of thinking about diversity and adaptation in living things.

On writing:

In the beginning, I wrote articles for science and nature magazines. A lot of these articles came together in Exploring the Insect World. Then I discovered I could just "make it up." No more being tied down by facts! But, of course, even when writing a fantasy, you have to get your facts right. My first venture into time-slip fantasy was To Nowhere and Back, where present-day Elizabeth "became" Ann, who lived a hundred years earlier. To make the story work, I needed to know what life was like for a peasant girl living in a thatched cottage in the 1800s.

Although I've jumped about in my writing career--books about everything from bugs and archaeology to chicken brains in a jar, switched identities, and an imagined history of New Zealand--there is a common thread. I love history and nature. I'm fascinated by the lives of the people who made our history, especially in the field of science. And, I'm also concerned about the future and the part each of us plays in making that future happen.

Books by Margaret J. Anderson:
  • Fiction
    Olla-piska: Tales of David Douglas     (University of Washington Press, 2006)
    Children of Summer: Henri Fabre's Insects     (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997)
    The Ghost inside the Monitor     (Random House Bullseye Books, 1990)
    The Druid’s Gift     (Knopf, 1989)
    The Mists of Time     (Knopf, 1984)
    The Brain on Quartz Mountain     (Knopf, 1982)
    Light in the Mountain ( Knopf, 1982)
    Journey of the Shadow Bairns (Knopf, 1980)
    In the Cirle of Time (Knopf, 1979)
    Searching for Shona ( Knopf, 1978)
    In the Keep of Time     (Knopf, 1977)
    To Nowhere and Back (Knopt,1975)
  • Non Fiction, Biography, and Activity Books
    Charles Darwin: Naturalist, 2nd edition     (Enslow, 2008)
    Discovering Black Bears (Dog Eared Publications, 2007)
    Alexandria, Virginia with Pam Cressey (Oxford University Press, 2006)
    Aristotle: Philosopher and Scientist (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 2004)
    Chaco Canyon with Gwinn Vivian (Oxford University Press, 2002)
    Scientists of the Ancient World (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1999)
    Leapfrogging through Wetlands (Dog-Eared Publications, 1998)
    Carl Linnaeus: Father of Classification (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1997)
    Bizarre Insects (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1996)
    Isaac Newton: The Greatest Scientist of All Time     (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1996)
    Ancient Forests     (Dog Eared Publications, 1994)
    Charles Darwin, Naturalist     (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1994)
    Food Chains: The Unending Cycle     (Enslow Publishing, Inc, 1991)
    Exploring City Trees and the Need for Urban Forest (McGraw-Hill, 1976)
    Exploring the Insect World (McGraw-Hill, 1974)

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