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eBooks:
Originally published in 1977, In the Keep of Time has just been issued as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. It is exciting to bring this well loved book into the digital age!
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In the Circle of Time is in the process of being published as an eBook. Check back for publication date.
On Writing:
In the beginning, I wrote articles for science and nature magazines. A lot of these articles came together in Exploring the Insect World. Then I discovered I could just "make it up." No more being tied down by facts! But, of course, even when writing a fantasy, you have to get your facts right. My first venture into time-slip fantasy was To Nowhere and Back, where present-day Elizabeth "became" Ann, who lived a hundred years earlier. To make the story work, I needed to know what life was like for a peasant girl living in a thatched cottage in the 1800s. Writing In the Keep of Time took me back to Scotland in the 15th century.
“Even if you don’t believe in magic this book can transform you … an unusual, delightful book. I recommend it to all ages, younger children for the suspenseful story, older people for the symbolism.” Margaret Petrone (12) in Stone Soup.
Originally published in 1977, In the Keep of Time has now been issued as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook. It is also available through the Apple Store for iPad, the Sony Reader Store, Kobo, Copia, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, and eBookPie.
Although I've jumped about in my writing career--books about everything from bugs and archaeology to chicken brains in a jar, switched identities, and an imagined history of New Zealand--there is a common thread. I love history and nature. I'm fascinated by the lives of the people who made our history, especially in the field of science. And, I'm also concerned about the future and the part each of us plays in making that future happen.
Writing can be a lonely business, so I’ve particularly enjoyed working on the Nature Activity books that were written in cooperation with Karen Stephenson and Nan Field.
Science based activity books for children.
Discovering
Black Bears
Dog Eared Publications, 2007
Press Release
Leapfrogging
through Wetlands
Dog Eared publications,
1998
Discovering Ancient Forests
Dog Eared publications,
1998
Click to see sample activity sheets.
Books by Margaret J. Anderson:
Fiction:
Olla-piska: Tales of David Douglas (Oregon
Historical Society:2006)
Children of Summer: Henri Fabre's Insects (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux: 1997)
The Ghost inside the Monitor (Knopf: 1990)
The Druid’s Gift (Knopf: 1989)
The Mists of Time (Knopf: 1984)
The Brain on Quartz Mountain (Knopf: 1982)
Light in the Mountain ( Knopf: 1982)
Journey of the Shadow Bairns (Knopf: 1980)
In the Circle of Time (Knopf: 1979)
Searching for Shona ( Knopf: 1978)
In the Keep of Time (Knopf: 1977)
To Nowhere and Back (Knopf:1975)
Non Fiction
Bugged-Out Insects (Enslow: 2011)
Carl Linnaeus: Father of Classification (Enslow: 1997, 2009)
Isaac Newton: The Greatest Scientist of All Time (Enslow: 1996,
2008)
Charles Darwin: Naturalist (Enslow: 1994, 2008)
Alexandria, Virginia (Oxford University Press,
2006)
Aristotle: Philosopher and Scientist (Enslow: 2004)
Chaco Canyon (Oxford University Press: 2002)
Scientists of the Ancient World (Enslow: 1999)
Bizarre Insects (Enslow: 1996)
Isaac Newton: The Greatest Scientist of All Time (Enslow:
1996)
Food Chains: The Unending Cycle (Enslow: 1991)
Exploring City Trees and the Need for Urban Forest (McGraw-Hill:
1976)
Exploring the Insect World (McGraw-Hill: 1974)
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