Sally M. Walker
Sally Macart Walker is an American writer of nonfiction for children. She is best known for writing about scientific subject matter such as Mystery Fish: Secrets of the Coelacanth or Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Additionally, Walker is known for books written in both Spanish and English as seen in La Luz/Light and La Electricidad/Electricity. She is also known as Sally Fleming.
Life
Walker was born in New Jersey in 1956 and now lives in DeKalb, Illinois. In 1974 she married James Walker, an igneous petrologist, and she is the mother of two children. Walker earned her B.A. at Upsala College in 1975. Her avocational interests are hiking, reading, cooking, and gardening. She holds memberships in the International Reading Association and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.Career
Walker is a literature consultant and an author of nonfiction juvenile literature. Before becoming an author of children's literature Walker worked for Junction Book Store in DeKalb, IL as a children's book buyer. She was also employed with Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, IL as a children's literature consultant as well as a children's book specialist. For a short time, Walker was an adjunct instructor for Northern Illinois University.In 2006, her book Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley won the Sibert Medal.
Selected works
Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan's Anishinaabe Sharpshooters- Champion Sinking the Sultana Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
- Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation
- Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead
- Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 Druscilla's Halloween Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Mosquitoes Jaguars The Search for Antarctic Dinosaurs La Electricidad/Electricity El Calor/ Heat La Luz/Light El Magnetismo/Magnetism Caves Glaciers Reefs La Materia/Matter El Sonido/Sound Shipwreck Search: Discovery of the H. L. Hunley Minerals Soil Fossils Rocks Sound Electricity Planos Inclinados/Inclined Planes And Wedges Palancas/Levers Tornillos/Screws Poleas/Pulleys Ruedas Y Ejes/Wheels And Axles Trabajo/Work Jackie Robinson Matter Mystery Fish: Secrets Of The Coelacanth Heat Crocodiles Bessie Coleman: Daring to Fly ' Life in an Estuary: The Chesapeake Bay ' Rays Jackie Robinson Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth '''' Sea Horses's Surprise Work Levers Wheels and Axles Pulleys Inclined Planes and Wedges Screws Seahorse Reef: A Story of the South Pacific Fireflies Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter Manatees Dolphins Sea Horses The 18 Penny Goose Hippos Opossum at Sycamore Road, Micro Book Opossum at Sycamore Road Rhinos "Space Bucks" Official Secrets and Solutions Earthquakes Volcanoes: Earth's Inner Fire: A Carolrhoda Earth Watch Book Water Up, Water Down: The Hydrologic Cycle Born Near the Earth's Surface: Sedimentary Rocks Glaciers: Ice on the Move
- ''Secrets of a Civil War Submarine ''