Deborah Lee Rose

Deborah's national award-winning STEM picture book Astronauts Zoom! will be launched in February 2023 to the International Space Station, to be read aloud by an astronaut for STORY TIME FROM SPACE. ASTRONAUTS ZOOM! about astronauts on the International Space Station won the national DeBary Award for Outstanding Children's STEM Books. Illustrated with dynamic, you-are-there NASA photos, the book includes lots of STEAM ideas for home and school learning. Her newest children's STEM book, SWOOP AND SOAR: HOW SCIENCE RESCUED TWO OSPREY ORPHANS AND FOUND THEM A NEW FAMILY IN THE WILD, is coauthored with raptor biologist Jane Veltkamp of Birds of Prey Northwest, who wrote the national award-winning book BEAUTY AND THE BEAK with Deborah. Her book SCIENTISTS GET DRESSED also won the national DeBary Award and captures how scientists suit up, gown up, gear up and even dress up in costume to their their amazing work. BEAUTY AND THE BEAK: HOW SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND A 3D-PRINTED BEAK RESCUED A BALD EAGLE won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Prize for Excellence in Science Books, the Bank Street College Cook Prize for Best STEM Picture Book, and the California Reading Association Eureka! Gold Award for Nonfiction. The book was named to the CALIFORNIA READS teacher recommended list, and includes special content about Bald Eagle conservation from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Deborah coauthored the book with renowned raptor biologist Jane Veltkamp, who led Beauty's prosthetic beak engineering team and cares for Beauty. Beauty's story was reported worldwide and featured on Nat Geo WILD TV's Unlikely Animal Friends. Free educational guides can be downloaded from www.deborahleerose.com. She also wrote the beloved koala rescue book Jimmy the Joey. Deborah speaks to schools, conferences, libraries and book events nationwide. Deborah's hilarious school classics The Twelve Days of Kindergarten and The Twelve Days of Winter are now out in paperback. "The Twelve Days of Kindergarten was inspired by my son's first day of kindergarten. When he came home from school, he couldn't stop telling me all the wondrous things his new teacher had given him. Those classroom gifts--and many others that followed--inspired me to write The Twelve Days of Kindergarten, The Twelve Days of Winter and The Twelve Days of Springtime." The Twelve Days of Kindergarten and The Twelve Days of Winter have both won the NAPPA Gold Award. Deborah's ocean alphabet book, Into the A,B,Sea, was named to the New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing and has sold a quarter million copies. Her gentle ocean life cycle book, Ocean Babies, is beloved by families with young children. An internationally published, award-winning children's author, Deborah weaves themes of nature, family and school in her books. The Spelling Bee Before Recess, captures the nailbiting excitement of a school spelling bee that goes into overtime. In this humorous picture book, set to the rhythm of The Night Before Christmas, two finalists enter the spelling bee's championship round. The spelling words fly fast and thick, until the principal throws in a tiebreaker where the spellers must spell AND tell what the word means—just like in the national spelling bee. Her lullaby book, Someone's Sleepy, gently celebrates a young child's nightly ritual, from bathtime to hearing a bedtime story to snuggling with favorite stuffed animals to sweet dreams. The book is also a lullaby song with music by Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Tom Chapin. Deborah grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Cornell University. She helped create and directed communications for the national STEM education project howtosmile.org, which earned an ALA Best Websites for Kids award and AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Award. She lives in Silver Spring, MD. Visit her at www.deborahleerose.com.