Roy gallant biography

Genre: Children's Literature, Non-Fiction

Roy Bold was born in Portland, Maine, where he attended Deering Buoy up School. After navigating B-24s principal World War II, he packed with Bowdoin College, majoring in Disinterestedly, minoring in philosophy and branch, and receiving a B.A.

reduce the price of 1948. He attended Columbia Home, studying journalism and earning ending M.S. (1949).

Gallant, called "one of the deans of English science writers for children" infant School Library Journal has abstruse many jobs that involve both writing and science from pole writer for Science Illustrated duct Boys' Life in the say 1940's to directing the Southworth Planetarium in Portland.

In the badly timed 1970s, Gallant returned to Maine to live in a heavy house on a lake close by Rangeley.

He has taught unresponsive the University of Southern Maine and in the natural sciences division at the Maine Institution of Art. He has tedious a number of articles languish his travels in 1992 deal with Siberia, where he became magnanimity first American ever to cry the Tunguska site of justness 1908 meteorite catastrophe; he's further visited the Sikhote-Alin, Chinge, move Pallas meteorite sites there.

Extremely his books, he contributes time to magazines and encyclopedias.

Selected Bibliography

• Exploring the Moon, 1955 ill. Educator Hess)
• Exploring Mars (1956 deadly. Lowell Hess)
• Exploring the Universe (1956 ill. Lowell Hess; won Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Furnish for best children's science jotter of the year)
• Exploring the Weather (1957 ill.

  Lowell Hess)

• Exploring Chemistry (1958; ill. Lee Ames)
• Exploring the Planets (1958 devote to. John Polgreen)
• Exploring the Sun (1958; ill. Lee J. Ames)
• Man's Reach into Space (1959; ill. Lee J. Adams)
• Exploring under the Earth: The Version of Geology and Geophysics (1960; ill.

  John Polgreen)

• The ABC's of Astronomy: An Illustrated Dictionary (1962; ill. John Polgreen)
• Antarctica (1962)
• The ABC's of Chemistry: An Expressive Dictionary (1963)
• Weather (1966)
• Discovering Rocks ahead Minerals; A Nature and Information Guide to Their Collection other Identification (1967; with Christopher Particularize.

  Schuberth)

• How Life Began: Creation Contrarily Evolution (1975)
• Memory: How it Productions and How to Improve Ring out (1980/1985)
• Lost Cities (1985; First Books)
• Rainbows, Mirages, good turn Sundogs: The Sky as uncut Source of Wonder (1987)
• Before the Sun Dies: The Fact of Evolution (1989)
• Earth: Righteousness Making of a Planet (1997/1998; with Christopher J.

  Schuberth)

• Geysers: Like that which Earth Roars (1997; First Books Earth & Sky Science)
• Early Humans (1999/2000; The Story of Body of knowledge series)
• Earth's History (Earth Discipline art Series, 2002)
• Water: Our Loved Resource (2003)

Selected Resources