Helaine becker biography books

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  • Recent titles include Puffin and Penguin; The Ode to Underwear; An Equal Shot: How The Law Title IX Changed America; The Fossil Whisperer: How Wendy Sloboda.
  • Helaine Becker is the author of more than 90 award-winning books for children including You Can Read, Worms for Breakfast: How to Feed a Zoo.
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  • Puffin and Penguin

    2025 - Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel List, Missouri Association of School Libraries (MASL), Joint Winner

  • That’s No Dino!

    2022 - Silver Birch Express Award, Ontario Library Association, Short-listed

  • The Fossil Whisperer

    2022 - OLA Best Bets (Junior Nonfiction), Ontario Library Association, Commended

  • Emmy Noether

    2021 - Best Children’s Books List, Bank Street College, Winner

    2021 - Crystal Kite Award, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI, Short-listed

    2021 - Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens List, Capitol Choices, Winner

    2021 - Vine Awards YA/Children's, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Short-listed

    2020 - Children`s Book Award, Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, Short-listed

  • Megabugs

    2021 - Red Cedar Award, BC Young Reader's Choice Awards, Commended

    2019 - OLA Best Bets, Ontario Library Association, Commended

  • Hubots

    2020 - Rocky Mountain Book Award, Ontario Library Association, Short-listed

    2020 - Yellow Cedar Award, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Short-listed

    2019 - Best Books for Kids and Teens, California Reading Association, Winner

    2019 - Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award, , Short-listed

    2018 - Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award, , Commended

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    About Helaine

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    Author: Helaine Becker
    Illustrator: Sandra Dumais
    Publisher and Year: KCP 2022

    Synopsis: "Wendy has an eye for the unusual and is skilled at finding things that others don't see. While on a school field trip at age 12, she spots one of those unusual things poking out of the ground, and it turns out to be a piece of fossilized coral that's 100 million years old. Wendy's thrilled! And soon, she gets hooked on finding fossils. When she grows up, Wendy turns her passion into her career and becomes a preeminent fossil hunter, known as the “fossil whisperer” around the world. But it's on a dig close to home where Wendy makes her most important discovery: Wendiceratops!.

    This readable biography of a unique female role model in the male-dominated field of paleontology has strong STEM connections in life science and paleontology and applications in Earth history. It includes a biographical note, more information about Wendiceratops and fossil hunting, a timeline, a glossary and further reading."


    Alice and Gert: An Ant and Grasshopper Story

    Author: Helaine Becker
    Illustrator: Dena Seiferling
    Publisher and Year: Owlkids 2020

    Synopsis: "It’s high summer in the meadow where Alice t

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