National Geographic Kids Chapters: The Whale Who Won Hearts!

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is an award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. Her titles include What Lives in a Shell?, winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Best Children’s Science Picture Book award; What Is the World Made Of?, a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; and What’s Alive?, also named an AAAS Best Children’s Science Picture Book.

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld was a children’s book editor for more than 10 years before becoming a full-time writer. She has published more than 60 books for children, most about animals and natural history.