Sneed B. Collard III

Sneed B. Collard III (see also "Sneed B. Collard") is a biologist, world traveler, speaker, and author of more than eighty books for young people, include the novels Dog Sense, Double Eagle, The Governor's Dog is Missing, and Hangman's Gold. His two recent science titles, Fire Birds and Hopping Ahead of Climate Change, both were featured on the NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books list and named Silver Honorees for the Eureka! Nonfiction Award by the California Reading Association. "Hopping" is also a finalist for the prestigious AAAS-Subaru SB&F Prize for Middle Grade Science. Collard holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and U.C. Santa Barbara. He lives in Montana.