Clare Hodgson Meeker is an award-winning author of true animal stories, biographies, folktales, picture books, and chapter books for elementary and middle school-age children.
Her most recent book, GROWING UP GORILLA published by Millbrook Press won the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Books for Young Readers. It was also named a 2020 Bank Street Book of the Year Award in the STEM category and a Finalist for both the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Middle Grade Science Books and the 2020 Animal Behavior Society’s Children’s Book of the Year. GROWING UP GORILLA is now available in paperback!
“This winning title provides an intriguing look at how a team of humans nurtured and saved a gorilla family...Hodgson Meeker deftly conveys the humans’ concerns for these animals…”
“Enticing…Will provoke ‘content grunts’ in nature lovers...”
Clare’s previous book, RHINO RESCUE! published by National Geographic was a 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection. She is also the author of:
LOOTAS LITTLE WAVE EATER: AN ORPHANED SEA OTTER’S STORY Smithsonian Notable Book
HANSA: THE TRUE STORY OF AN ASIAN ELEPHANT BABY, an AZA Communiqué recommend
SOCCER DREAMS: PLAYING THE SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC WAY, licensed by Major League Soccer
WHO WAKES ROOSTER?, a Bank Street Book of the Year
Her magazine series for the National Wildlife Federation called OLIVE OPOSSUM AND MAX MOLE’S BIG BACKYARD was a Finalist for the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement award in 2008.
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