The American Library Association named Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw to its 2012 Notables List.

NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute explores Mars. Click here for lesson plans and activities to use with Mars and the Search for Life.

Elaine is named as the Featured Sweetheart by the Texas Sweethearts and Scoundrels writers group. Learn why at the blog.

Read Cynthia Leitich Smith's interview with Elaine at Cynsations.

Now available in audiobook! When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto is now available as an audiobook from Random House Audio. Listen to a sample clip by clicking here.

Library Sparks featured When is a Planet Not a Planet? and Elaine Scott in the March 2008 issue.

Click here to send an email to Elaine Scott.

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Site updated January 24, 2012.

Welcome to my web page!

Hello,

Thanks so much for stopping by my web site.  I hope you’ll find everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about me and my work right here, but if you don’t you can always e-mail me at Elaine@elainescott.com.

The past year has been an extraordinarily busy one.  In January, Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time was published by Clarion.  As anyone who knows me realizes, I am captivated by space science, and in particular by the Hubble Space Telescope.  Space, Stars is my attempt to sum up all the science this amazing instrument has done over the twenty years it’s been in orbit.  I can take no credit for the magnificent images in this book—they’re all Hubble, all the way!

I barely had time to enjoy the publication of Space, Stars because I was hard at work on next year’s book, which instead of being set far above the earth, is set deep within it. Buried Alive! How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Beneath the Chilean Desert.  As I watched the rescue of those miners on television, I knew there was a powerful human story there—one of despair, survival, hope, and success.  I hope you’ll look for it when Clarion publishes it in April, 2012.

I also finished a book for Charlesbridge, Dollars and Sense: A Book About Money.  Considering the fact that everyone everywhere seems to be worrying about money and the economy, it seemed like a good idea to write a book on, well, money and how it works—both for us and at times, against us.  That book will appear in 2013.

Right now, I’m finishing up another book for Clarion—this time on the moon.  It will contain all kinds of new information about our closest neighbor in space.

So I’ve been a busy writer, which is just the way I like it.  But I’m never too busy to visit your school or library, or to answer your questions.  So send them on!  I answer every one.

Best wishes,

Elaine

 

Honors and Events

        When Is a Planet Not a Planet? is named to the 2010-2011 Young Hoosier Book Award Nomination List!

       Secrets of the Cirque Medrano has been named one of Bank Street College's Best Children's Books of the        Year!

The Texas State Reading Association awarded When is a Planet Not a Planet? the 2008 Golden Spur Award for Children's Literature (now called TSRA Literature Award for Children, Young Adult and Illustrator).

When is a Planet Not a Planet? won the 2008 Texas Reading Association's Literature Award. It was also named as a PBS Recommended Book, a 2008 Teacher's Choice book, and was also named to the Maine Student Book Awards list for 2008-2009.

Elaine was a featured author at the International Reading Association Conference in Phoenix, AZ, February 21-25, 2009.

Elaine was a featured speaker at the 2008 Texas Library Association Conference in Dallas, TX.

Elaine was a featured author at the 2007 Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX.

Poles Apart was named a finalist for the prestigious Teddy Children's Book Award in 2005. The Pennsylvania Library Association named Poles Apart to its YA Top 40 list! Chicago Public Library names Poles Apart one of its Best of the Best

Elaine was one of a select group of children's authors invited to participate in Laura Bush Celebrates America's Authors, part of the extended Inaugural Activities on January 19, 2001. Read about her experience in the Special Events section of the site.

	Then-Governor George W. Bush welcomes Elaine Scott to the 1999 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas.
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