UPCOMING EVENT: ALL FOR ANIMALS WALK Fundraiser for the Woodland Park Zoo - September 16, 2023, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, home to Yola and her gorilla family who are the stars of my award-winning book Growing Up Gorilla, is holding an ALL FOR ANIMALS WALK fundraiser on Saturday, September 16, 2023 from 9-11am. In honor of the Zoo’s tremendous work with Yola, her mother Nadiri, and other endangered animals in their care, Clare will be signing and giving away Growing Up Gorilla books to the first 150 visitors to the zoo on the walk that day. Please join me in this celebratory morning of community philanthropy. Funds raised through the walk will support species-saving programs in the Pacific Northwest and the Zoo’s conservation partners across the world. For more information on this event, go to zoo.org/AllForAnimals.
Clare Hodgson Meeker is an award-winning author of true animal stories, biographies, folktales, picture books, and chapter books for elementary and middle school-age children.
Her most recent book, GROWING UP GORILLA published by Millbrook Press won the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Books for Young Readers. It was also named a 2020 Bank Street Book of the Year Award in the STEM category and a Finalist for both the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Middle Grade Science Books and the 2020 Animal Behavior Society’s Children’s Book of the Year. GROWING UP GORILLA is now available in paperback!
“Enticing…Will provoke ‘content grunts’ in nature lovers…” - Kirkus Reviews.
“This winning title provides an intriguing look at how a team of humans nurtured and saved a gorilla family...Hodgson Meeker deftly conveys the humans’ concerns for these animals…” - School Library Journal
Clare’s previous book, RHINO RESCUE! published by National Geographic was a 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection. She is also the author of:
LOOTAS LITTLE WAVE EATER: AN ORPHANED SEA OTTER’S STORY Smithsonian Notable Book
HANSA: THE TRUE STORY OF AN ASIAN ELEPHANT BABY, an AZA Communiqué recommend
SOCCER DREAMS: PLAYING THE SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC WAY, licensed by Major League Soccer
WHO WAKES ROOSTER?, a Bank Street Book of the Year
Her magazine series for the National Wildlife Federation called OLIVE OPOSSUM AND MAX MOLE’S BIG BACKYARD was a Finalist for the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement award in 2008.