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Helaine Becker

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Helaine Becker has written over 70 books, including the #1 National bestseller, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree,and its sequel, Dashing through the Snow, Sloth at the Zoom, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, the Looney Bay All-Stars chapter book series, non-fiction including Counting on Katherine, Worms for Breakfast and Zoobots (all Junior Library Guild Selections), Monster Science, You Can Read, Lines Bars and Circles, and Boredom Blasters, plus many picture books and young adult novels. She also writes for children’s magazines and for children's television. Her show Dr. Greenie's Mad Lab was a finalist at MIP.com Junior in Cannes.
She has won the Lane Anderson Award for Science Writing for Children twice,once for The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Se ...more

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Counting on Katherine Is Soaring!

I've been so busy scribbling I hadn't had a moment to update this blog with news of Counting On Katherine's reception in the kidlit world. To date, the book has been recognized with:

A Junior Library Guild SelectionBank Street - Cook Prize ShortlistALA Amelia Bloomer List SelectionNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for ChildrenCBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young PeopleChicago Pub Read more of this blog post »

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	Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Dow Phumiruk (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 1,571 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can Read by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Mark Hoffmann (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Porcupine in a Pine Tree by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Werner Zimmermann (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sloth at the Zoom by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Orbie (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pirate Queen: A Story of Zheng Yi Sao by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Liz Wong (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.84 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Dow Phumiruk (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 158 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Marie-Ève Tremblay (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dashing through the Snow: A Canadian Jingle Bells by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Werner Zimmermann (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fossil Whisperer: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur by Helaine Becker (Goodreads Author), Sandra Dumais (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 90 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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