Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery

At the age of three, Grandin was diagnosed with autism, and her parents were encouraged to institutionalize her. Her latest book, Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, is a compelling biography about the brilliant scientist who revolutionized the livestock industry. Her Scientists in the Field series titles have garnered numerous awards, including a Robert F. First published May 2012 ( Book Links).Īuthor Sy Montgomery is well known for her engaging texts and passionate stance on animal conservation.

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Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition among Snow Leopards in Mongolia.

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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World.She lives in Hancock New Hampshire with her husband, and of course, lots of animal friends.Find more Books and Authors Titles Discussed She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in journalism, French, and psychology. In April 2010, she was awarded the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C.’s Nonfiction Award for her distinguished body of work.

Her book for children, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea was the recipient of the 2007 Orbis Pictus Award and was selected as an Honor book for the ALA Sibert Award. The Good, Good Pig, a moving memoir of life with her remarkable pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. Sy has written more than 15 books for both adults and children. This series takes young reader into the fascinating world of scientists whose ‘laboratories’ are in the wild, often in some of the most remote corners of the world. She has collaborated for years with photographer Nic Bishop, and together they launched Houghton Mifflin’s award-winning “Scientists in the Field” series with The Snake Scientist, published in 1999. She also worked in a pit crawling with eighteen thousand snakes in Manitoba handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana and swam with piranhas, electric eels, and dolphins in the Amazon. Sy Montgomery is a lifelong explorer: she has made four trips to Peru and Brazil to study the pink dolphins of the Amazon and on other expeditions, she was chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica undressed by an orangutan in Borneo and hunted by a tiger in India.

Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery