About

I’ve always loved books. Flip books, search-and-find books, picture books, novels, nonfiction, comics: I read all kinds of things as a kid, and I still read all kinds of things as an adult. The interaction between the reader and the page was everything to me. Now, I’m lucky enough to get to explore some of the things that make me curious and write books of my own.

When I was younger, I loved stories of everyday life, like The Babysitters Club series, and history, like the book Fun and Facts about the Presidents, which I got at the Scholastic Book Fair and still have on my shelf! I also loved reading about and looking at pictures of animals and reading (and rereading) comic strips like Calvin & Hobbes.

Rebecca petting a cow

Now, I’m still interested in history and science. I’ve written about historical figures like Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneering climate scientist in a time when there weren’t many women scientists. I’ve written about the history and science of trash. And I’ve written a few books about kids and everyday life, too, because good writers don’t forget what it was like to be a kid.

Not every kid is into books, and that’s ok. There are lots of ways to learn the things that books teach us: we learn empathy through stories of all kinds, in books but also in movies, TV, and role-playing games, or from talking to people about our experiences and theirs. Whatever your hobbies are, however you like to spend your time, try to learn something about the world around you and the people in it–you won’t regret it.