She also won a 1987 Newbery Honor for "Volcano: The Eruption and
Healing of Mount St. Helens."
She lived in New Canaan, Connecticut.
http://www.hoytfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/sites/hoytfu0/obit.cgi?user=182268Frost
First half:
"Patricia Lauber Frost, a well known author of children’s books, died
at her home in New Canaan on March 12, 2010. She was 86 and wife of
the late Russell Frost III. She is survived by her sister Nancy E.
Lauber of Little Egg Harbor, N.J.
"As Patricia Lauber, she wrote more than 125 books for young readers,
many of them in the field of science. She was committed to the belief
that non-scientists should be literate in science and tried in her
books to make the ideas of science accessible and interesting.
Reviewers often cited her clarity and strong narrative drive.
"Her subjects ranged from earthworms to earthquakes to Earth as seen
from space, to ecological niches. Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of
Mount St. Helens was a Newbery Honor Book. Her work has also been
honored by, among others, The New York Academy of Sciences, The
American Nature Society, The Washington Post Children’s Book Guild,
Central Missouri State University, the Kerlan Collection, the National
Forum on Children’s Science Books at Carnegie Mellon, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. She was also the recipient
of the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award."
You can read more about her and her juvenile science books here:
http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/html/clrc/clrc0157.html
She was also well known for the 1950s-1970s series about "Clarence the
TV Dog." (Clarence liked to watch TV.) There are five books in that
series, including the 1973 "Clarence and the Burglar," which is a
single chapter from the first book.
One thing I find interesting is that she says at least some of the
Clarence stories are true, but if so, she wasn't a child when they
happened, because Clarence lived in the 1950s, I believe, and she was
clearly grown up by then! So how does the kids' perspective fit into
all this? I wonder. (Maybe she had her first child at age 20, when
that was more common?)
BTW, it only hit me as an adult why the otherwise independent-minded,
widowed mother in the stories won't stand up to Aunt Minnie, her
poking umbrella and her tyrannical ways - hint: she's "very
rich."
However, in other chapters - and in "Clarence the Sea
Dog" - the narrator makes clear that the mother somehow believes that
being a good host means putting up with guests' rudeness and bossiness
until they go. I have to wonder where THAT came from!
Lenona.
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