 Ginger Wadsworth
Web site: www.gingerwadsworth.com
When she isn't writing, reading, or gardening, Ginger Wadsworth likes to explore the greenbelt surrounding her home. Ginger is equally happy in the mountains, at the beach, or at her second home in California's Anza-Borrego Desert, where she likes to hike, birdwatch and take pictures.
Some of her nature-related titles are: River Discoveries, Desert Discoveries, Tundra Discoveries, and One Tiger Growls. She is completing a science book about mammoths, due to be released in 2006. She has written biographies about the Wright Brothers, Laura Ingalls Wilder, John Muir, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, and Julia Morgan. Other biographies for beginning readers are on Laura Ingalls Wilder, Benjamin Banneker, and Annie Oakley (Spring 2006).
A native of California, Ginger graduated from the University of California at Davis. She lives in Orinda, California with her husband, Bill. They have two adult sons and two grandsons. Her most recent book is Cesar Chavez, a biography for beginning readers. Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers (Fall 2003), one of her recent titles, is an award-winning book about the covered wagon migration, told from the viewpoints of real young people who traveled west.
Ginger says she loves anything to do with the out-of-doors, including the ocean, mountains & desert (where she has a second home). Her favorite place in California is Yosemite.
She has a golden retriever, Willa. She says she has always had pets, especially dogs. Golden retrievers make great writing and hiking buddies!
Both Wadsworth's father and grandfather were writers, who also wrote about the west.
GENERAL NONFICTION
Words West, Voices of Young Pioneers (2004 Spur Award for Juvenile Nonfiction from Western Writers of America)
Along the Santa Fe Trail
BIOGRAPHIES FOR YOUNG READERS
Cesar Chavez (An On My Own Biography)
The Wright Brothers
Benjamin Banneker, Pioneering Scientist
Laura Ingalls Wilder (An On My Own Biography)
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Storyteller of the Prairie
John Burroughs, the Sage of Slabsides
John Muir, Wilderness Protector
Rachel Carson, Voice for the Earth
Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams
Susan Butcher, Sled Dog Racer
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY
River Discoveries
Tundra Discoveries
Desert Discoveries
One on a Web
One Tiger Growls
Giant Sequoia Trees
OTHER BOOKS
Tomorrow Is Daddy's Birthday
A contributor to Writers In The Kitchen
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