Loree writes true stories for curious people of all ages. Her books for children have won many accolades, including American Library Association Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children’s Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award, and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes. Her essays for adults have been published in magazines like Yankee and honored in journals like Flyway. Samples of recent publications are shown below, and a more complete body of work can be viewed on the Books and Essays pages of this site.
Extreme Birdwatching: Measuring Change on a Galápagos Island (MITKids, 2026)
In Book Two of the Discovery Chronicles, an early chapter book series from writer Loree Griffin Burns, illustrator Jamie Green, and MITKids/Candlewick Press, readers meet Peter and Rosemary Grant, married biologists who spent forty years studying the finches of Daphne Major, a small and hard-to-reach uninhabited island off the coast of South America. Their meticulous approach to understanding these birds is the stuff of legends—capturing hundreds of birds twice each year, precisely measuring their beaks, wings, and bodies, banding them, and recording all of it. As their data on the finches expands, so does their understanding of how the finches came to be … and how, in turn, we ourselves came to be.
The Reluctant Hiker (Adirondack Life, Spring 2026)
My plan after the divorce was to move to Vermont, where I teach remotely and where my son lives. For a lifelong New Englander, this plan felt both bold and safe. I was stepping away from Massachusetts, the only home I'd ever known, but I could get back there by car in just a few hours. Then an upstate friend made a pitch for the New York side of Lake Champlain and invited me up for a week so she could show me around ... [buy the issue here]