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KL: I didn’t really know that much about spiders ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER
except that I was afraid of them. But then I was
listening to National Public Radio one day as I was Kathryn Lasky writes award-winning books for
driving around town and heard Greta Binford being children across genres. Her
interviewed. What she said was so fascinating that many illustrated nonfiction titles
when I got back home, I sat in the driveway to finish include the Newbery Honor
listening to the program. I immediately went inside Book Sugaring Time as well
and Googled her and read about the research she as One Beetle Too Many: The
was doing and called her up at Lewis and Clark Extraordinary Adventures of
College out in Portland, Oregon, where she works. Charles Darwin; Interrupted
The next thing I knew, Chris and I were on our way Journey: Saving Endangered Sea
to Portland to see her lab and watch her at work. Turtles; and John Muir: America’s
This was my basic introduction to arachnology and First Environmentalist.
the world of spiders, which has intrigued Greta for
over twenty years. The more I understood about Christopher G. Knight is a documentary filmmaker
spiders, the less fearful I became. as well as a photographer. His
photographs illustrate Kathryn
Lasky’s Interrupted Journey:
Previously you collaborated on Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
Saving Endangered Sea Turtles, the Newbery Honor and Sugaring Time. Christopher
Book Sugaring Time, and many other books. Do you G. Knight and his wife, Kathryn
anticipate working together again in the future? Lasky, live in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
KL: I’m sure we will, but Chris and I are very picky
about our subject matter. And there are two things
I can assure you that I shall never write about no
matter how well I understand them: sharks and Photographs copyright © 2011 by Christopher G. Knight
snakes.