Roberta earned a BS in Forest Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a Master’s degree in Entomology from Cornell University. After serving as a biology instructor at various community colleges, she took a research specialist position with the University of Arizona. She worked closely with the Cooperative Extension Master Gardener program teaching gardening and entomology, and became a Master Gardener herself.
Later she caught the writing bug, writing for both children and adults. Her first published children’s book was How to Build an Insect (Millbrook, 2021).
When not hunched over her computer keyboard, she listens for the first cicadas of summer in Phoenix, Arizona. You can find out more at her website, robertagibsonwrites.com.
Review Policy: Roberta does accept books for review, particularly science and nature nonfiction for children.
You can contact her here:
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✿Sue✿
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Sue,
In case you didn’t get my message:
If you click on the orange RSS feed button in the right sidebar, under the box where it says “choose your reader” is a blue line that says “Get Growing With Science delivered by e-mail.” If you click on that, it will pop up a box for you to add your e-mail.
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Sue,
Thanks for your question. I have added an e-mail subscription form in the right sidebar.
Hi Roberta!
Just wanted you to let you know that I put your blog on my Great Blogs page link 🙂
Have a great weekend!
✿Sue✿
✿Science for Kids Blog✿
Sue
thank you for the nice work. I was looking for a good pic for Arabidopsis Thaliana and I found one in your blog (http://blog.growingwithscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Arabis_thaliana_illustration.jpg) but I was just wandring if it is copyrighted then I can’t use it in scietific presentation or my thesis. can you please clarify that to me .
Mona,
As it says in the post, it is a public domain illustration of Arabidopsis thaliana by Johann Georg Sturm from Wikimedia. Generally these old botanical drawings are in the public domain because the copyright runs out after a certain number of years. Good luck with your thesis.