Solveig Paulson Russell
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Description
Solveig Paulson Russell was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In her mid-teens, she moved with her family to Portland, Oregon, where they lived on a farm just outside the city. She attended the University of Oregon, and after graduating she spent four years as a teacher in various rural schools. She was a junior high school teacher in Salem when she retired with the birth of her daughter. She decided to use her spare time to write, and in 1958 she published her first book, Trees for Tomorrow. Over the course of her career she published forty-five books as well as over 3,400 stories, verses and articles in various periodicals.
Books
Everyday wonders: ideas of the past that we use today
Relates several cases in which observations, imagination, accidents, and a desire to make work easier have resulted in important inventions.
The Farm
Twist and twine; the story of cordage
Describes the processes of making wire, rope, and twine, the development of knots and ties, and superstitions about knots. Also provides other miscellaneous information about cordage.
How shall we ride away?
Poems depicting different types of transportation in many areas of the world.
Size, distance, weight
An introduction to the concepts of measuring distance, weight, time, volume, and heat, including an explanation of how and why we measure, the tools we use, and the metric system.
Up down and all round
Observes in picture and rhyme "God's good plan" for nature and man.
Coats and Covers
Describes the characteristics and functions of skin, fur, hair, scales, shells, feathers, chitin, and other natural body coverings of animals.
Toadstools and such
Describes how to make spoor prints, experiment with fungi, hunt for mushrooms, and distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms.
Like and unlike: a first look at classification
Describes the grouping of alike things, or classification of similar objects, with emphasis on plants and animals.
From footpaths to freeways
Traces the history of roads from the first animal and Indian trails and Roman roads to modern freeways. Also discusses the development of highway planning and roadbuilding techniques and materials.
The crusty ones
Surveys the class of animals called crustaceans describing their characteristics, habitats, structure, development, and importance in the food cycle.
The mushmen
Five mushmen, related to elves and such, push themselves up from Down There to see if they can survive Up Here, set up headquarters under an oak tree, and live their pioneer existence, avoiding That Cat and keeping dry so they won't melt.
Rozy Dozy
Always the crook and never the detective when playing with her brother and friends, quiet Rozy Dozy one day overhears the plot of a real theft.
Lights for the night
Traces the development of man's use of light from the torches of the caveman to atomically produced electricity.
About cheese
Discusses the properties of cheese and describes the way various cheeses are made.