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Books are available through our publisher Mountain Press, http://mountain-press.com/index.php, order from your local bookstore, or order on Amazon.
Published in 2003. Co-authored with Karen I Shragg. Yucky 1 received the Izaak Walton League of America's Youth Book of the Year award. It was also a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards from the Minnesota Humanities Commission.
Nature’s Yucky!2: the Desert Southwest, 2007, (also with Karen I Shragg). Yucky 2 has won five awards from: Southwest Book Awards, Mom's Choice, Best Books, Skipping Stones, and the National Association for Interpretation.
Published in 2013.
Enjoy Lee Ann and Karen talking about making scat cookies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY_mlXbYgPE
Also, a snippet of Lee Ann doing a story hour reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWTQ1li6BU
Snippet of Lee Ann doing a reading at a library
“Authors Lee Ann Landstrom and Karen I. Shragg sure know their kid audience! Shock 'em with a disgusting fact about a desert creature, follow with a catchy catch phrase, add a recurring rhyme and a dash of alliteration, and then explain in simple, joyful terms why the suspect behavior is actually a good thing all around. Biology has never been so much fun! Rachel Rogge's illustrations, far from being yucky, combine realism and beauty to great effect. This one's a winner!“ Southwest Book Awards
“Even though we think it (Nature’s Yucky!2) is really gross, we think the book is awesome”. Mrs. Vincent’s class, Cooks Corners School, Valparaiso, Indiana
"Thanks for your wonderful Nature’s Yucky books. I found your book during the first months of the Covid challenge while on a short trip to Sedona…we live a couple hours south near Phoenix. I really enjoyed reading part of book 2 to send to my twin grandchildren several months ago.
This lead to the four year olds exclaiming, “eeeow that’s yucky!” whenever they saw something gross. Of course, I followed up by purchasing the other 2 books within a couple of months."
— Fern in Arizona
We were pleased to get this review. They undefstood the book.
Check back later for some information on presentations and some activities to try in the classroom or at home!
