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Sneed B. Collard III

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The United States

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http://www.sneedbcollardiii.com

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Children's Books, Young Adult, Science

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Larry Pringle, http://www.laurencepringle.com/

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Sneed B. Collard III (see also "Sneed B. Collard") is a biologist, world traveler, speaker, and author of more than eighty books for young people, include the novels Dog Sense, Double Eagle, The Governor's Dog is Missing, and Hangman's Gold. His two recent science titles, Fire Birds and Hopping Ahead of Climate Change, both were featured on the NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books list and named Silver Honorees for the Eureka! Nonfiction Award by the California Reading Association. "Hopping" is also a finalist for the prestigious AAAS-Subaru SB&F Prize for Middle Grade Science. Collard holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and U.C. Santa Barbara. He lives in Montana.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 1,214 ratings · 350 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	Double Eagle 3.75 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dog Sense 3.90 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal Dads by Sneed B. Collard III (Goodreads Author), Steve Jenkins (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Birds 4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beaks! by Sneed B. Collard III (Goodreads Author), Robin Brickman (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Platypus, Probably 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Point 3.57 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pocket Babies: And Other Amazing Marsupials 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Governor's Dog is Missing (Slate Stephens Mysteries, #1) 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sneed III liked Cindy Dobrez's review of Birds of Every Color: "A beautifully designed, photographed, and written book for young children and elementary school students about the science behind bird coloring. I'm eager to check out this father and son's other collaboration in their blog, FatherSonBirding.com a..." Read more of this review »
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Sneed III liked Lynn's review of Birds of Every Color: "Absolutely gorgeous and wow, that eye-catching cover is terrific. I'm sorry the cover art doesn't show here! This is a beautiful book design and production. An excellent explanation of the science behind bird coloration and the current theories on..." Read more of this review »
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Sneed III and 2 other people liked Ms. Yingling's review of Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding: "Copy provided by the publisher Sneed Collard has writing chops, and Warblers and Woodpeckers brings together many of his skills beautifully.. He is the author of many nature nonfiction books, several middle grade novels, and a memoir of his childho..." Read more of this review »
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Sneed III liked Jennybeast's review of Warblers & Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding: "Ok, so I've recently gotten into Pokemon Go, and while this book has absolutely nothing to do with that, the kind of collecting/hunting adventure of a birding Big year was deeply satisfying to me to read about. It's not a fast paced book, but it i..." Read more of this review »
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Hey Everyone! The author here. Want to thank you for taking an interest in my first-ever adult book! In my thirty-five years of writing for children, I always wanted to write an adult book, but never guessed the first would be about birds. My son, Br ...more
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This is one of the most important books I have written--which is saying a lot given I've got about 80 published titles under my belt. Why is it so important? Simple: the planet is heating up at an incredible rate, and precisely at a time when our gov ...more
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Of my eighty or so titles, I can't think of one that I am more proud of, and I thought some of you might be interested in the story behind Woodpeckers: Drilling Holes and Bagging Bugs. I have always loved woodpeckers since watching Acorn Woodpeckers ...more
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