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.
Frittatas (The Maine Review, Spring 2025)
In the morning, I made two, seven eggs in each. My husband came into the kitchen just as I was whisking the second batch, and he told me that one of the buffy hens had gotten herself on top of the little black and white, that the two of them were now stacked in a single roosting box like some strange poultry totem pole. The bottom hen, the black-and-white one, was our concern because a bare spot had appeared recently on her back, and featherless skin always attracts the attention of the other hens. Once chickens are focused on such a thing, the bullying can be relentless. Okay, I said, now sautéing onions, I’ll check on her. [continue reading]