Melissa Stewart

Melissa Stewart is an American author of children's books about science and nature and a leading researcher in the field of nonfiction literature for young people. Her more than 200 children's books include A Seed Is the Start, which follows the plant cycle from seed to sprout, and Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs. Stewart has also written several books for educators, and Can an Aardvark Bark? is another of her science titles.