Mary Batten is an award-
winning science writer whose previous books, Discovery By Chance,
The Tropical Forest, and Nature's Tricksters, were written for
the juvenile market. Her magazine credits include Cosmopolitan,
Science Digest, and International Wildlife. She has written scripts for
fifty television films, the producers of which include Time-Life Films, Children's
Television Workshop, National Geographic, and Walt Disney Educational Film
Division. She lives in Los Angeles.
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