Kevin Kurtz—Local

Kevin Kurtz—Local

Kevin Kurtz

$650/all day with few expenses.

Virtual visits $30 per 30-minute session.  

Non-fiction from a marine biology background.  Works include award-winning picture book/coloring and activity guide Light is Color; Into the Crater of Doom on the extinction of dinosaurs; How to Read a Rock (free graphic novel/comic download) (Gr. 5-9); A Day in the Deep (Gr. K-3); e-book Where Wild Microbes Grow: The Search for Life Under the Seafloor; and picture e-book Uncovering Earth’s Secrets (Gr. 1-5).  Among his books are Climate Change and Rising Temperatures; and Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels (Gr. 3-6); A Day in a Forested Wetland; and A Day in the Salt Marsh (K-4), plus Sharks and Dolphins: A Compare and Contrast Book (Pre-K–Gr. 3); and Living Things and Nonliving Things: A Compare and Contrast Book (Gr 1-3); The Big Book of Would You Rather Questions for Kids: Over 350 Smart and Silly Scenarios (Gr. 3-5).  Fun rhyming verse and lovely illustrations introducing plants, animals and ecosystems. Discussion on the process of writing a children’s book.

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Grades K–8