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EDUCATION:University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, B.S. (biology).
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AWARDS:Ann Whitford Paul Award honorable mention, 2021; Russel Freedman Award finalist, 2023; Stephen Fraser Encouragement Award, 2023; Best Book of the Year citation, New York Public Library, and Gold Standard selection, Junior Library Guild, both for Great Carrier Reef; Gold Standard selection, Junior Library Guild, for Fire Escape.
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[open new]A lover of outdoor adventure and the natural world, Jessica Stremer writes books delving into science topics for young readers. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology with an emphasis in ecology. She has been recognized with honors by the Junior Library Guild and New York Public Library.
Stremer’s debut picture book is Great Carrier Reef. With a nod to Australia’s endangered Great Barrier Reef, scientists oversaw the sinking of a decommissioned U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, to create an artificial reef off the Florida coast. Preparations included the cutting of cables and wires on the “Mighty O” and the removal of fuel, oil, paint, and copper. Explosives were arranged to land the carrier upright on the ocean floor, creating ideal spaces for marine life to thrive—which they were doing just hours later, as divers discovered. In Booklist, Kathleen McBroom affirmed that “this unique title with generous back matter will appeal to environmentalists and big-boat enthusiasts alike.” A Kirkus Reviews writer appreciated how Stremer’s tale of “recycling at its best” features “a properly triumphant finish.”
Framing the narrative in Lights Out: A Movement to Help Migrating Birds is a flock of sparrows’ difficulty navigating through the city glare of streetlights and neon signs. With the stars obscured, the sparrows get disoriented, and one is left behind, injured—but discovered by a girl and her father. While the sparrow heals, the girl and her classmates rally the community to turn lights off during migration season. Come spring, the sparrows much appreciate the darkness. A Kirkus Reviews writer enjoyed the “simple, smoothly written” text in this “feel-good story of a successful children’s campaign to make the world safer for birds.”
Stremer investigates more ecosystem issues in Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires. Animals’ keen senses often allow them to detect and flee emerging wildfire, but not always. Beyond evacuating livestock and zoos, humans step in to help rescue trapped wild animals and heal their burns. (A trigger warning accompanies the mention of some animals not surviving.) Climate change and poor forest management tend to make fires worse, but fires also help restore soil health to facilitate future growth of trees and brush. Practices to prevent outsized fires include controlled burns—as learned from Native Americans—and enlisting goats and beavers to eat scrub and foster wetlands. A Kirkus Reviews writer appreciated the “bountiful source notes, citations, and resource lists” as Stremer offers “must-reading on a hot topic.” Booklist reviewer Sharon Rawlins hailed Fire Escape as an “exceptionally informative,” “timely, engaging book … as illuminating as it is fun to read.”
The text is framed as free verse in Stremer’s Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species. Fortunately scientists raised the alarm when populations of brown pelicans started mysteriously declining in the 1950s. Research and studies eventually yielded the realization that DDT, a widespread, highly toxic pesticide, was being passed up the food chain and, among pelicans, weakening eggshells. Thus did some shells fail to protect potential hatchlings. Ecologists, environmentalists, and everyday nature lovers rallied around this discovery and others to pressure chemical manufacturers, farmers, and the government for change. They were greatly assisted by Rachel Carson’s haunting 1962 book Silent Spring, imagining spring with no birds because of deathly DDT. The campaign culminated in a DDT ban and the bolstered environmental protections of the Endangered Species Act.
In Booklist, Rachel Chapman affirmed that Plight of the Pelican’s “timeless message encourages young readers and activists to understand the history of the environmental movement and empowers them” to use their voices to inspire change. A Kirkus Reviews writer hailed Stremer’s “lyrical tribute to the scientists who solved an ecological mystery” as a “scientific success story, with a cogent reminder that work remains to be done.”
Stremer offers a fictional version of a successful effort to restore nature in Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community. Children adore an old oak tree under which they often spend recess chatting and playing—until lightning strikes it down. When the children suggest planting new trees, they are led in efforts to cut off the oak’s small branches, grow them in jars of water, and plant the ones that sprout in pots of soil. They thus not only repopulate the schoolyard but also give sprouts to the community to help grow trees all around. Carolyn Phelan in Booklist observed that the story is “well paced” and the back matter will assist parents inspired to spearhead improvements of public spaces and gardens by uprooting invasive plants and nurturing native species. A Publishers Weekly reviewer lauded the “polished prose” in this “uplifting” volume. A Kirkus Reviews writer appreciated that the lessons “extend further” than the central project, as the children learn to “weed out weeds, grow and plant wildflowers, create compost, and provide shelters for birds and pollinating insects.” The reviewer hailed Wonderfully Wild as “joyful … hopeful and encouraging.”[close new]
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Booklist, June 1, 2023, Kathleen McBroom, review of Great Carrier Reef, p. 60; May 1, 2024, Sharon Rawlins, review of Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires, p. 39; March, 2025, Rachel Chapman, review of Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species, p. 89, and Carolyn Phelan, review of Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community, p. 94.
Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2023, review of Great Carrier Reef; February 1, 2024, review of Lights Out: A Movement to Help Migrating Birds; April 1, 2024, review of Fire Escape; January 1, 2025, review of Plight of the Pelican; March 15, 2025, review of Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community; June 15, 2025, review of Trapped in the Tar Pit: How Paleontologists Unearthed a City’s Prehistoric Past.
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Jessica Stremer website, https://www.jessicastremer.com (December 17, 2025).
Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/ (January 30, 2025), review of Wonderfully Wild; (February 20, 2025), review of Plight of the Pelican.
Jessica Stremer is an award-winning children’s author who combines her love of science and writing to create books that inspire kids to explore and think critically about the world around them. Her titles include GREAT CARRIER REEF (a NY Public Library Best Book of the Year and JLG Gold Standard selection), LIGHTS OUT: A Movement to Help Migrating Birds, FIRE ESCAPE: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires (a JLG Gold Standard selection), PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN: How Science Saved a Species, TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT, and WONDERFULLY WILD. Jessica obtained a B.S. in Biology, with an emphasis in Ecology, from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She was a recipient of the 2023 Stephen Fraser Encouragement Award, a 2023 finalist for the Russel Freedman award, and received honorable mention for the 2021 Ann Whitford Paul award. When not writing you can find Jessica cheering from the sideline of her kids’ soccer games, spending time outdoors, and planning her next family adventure.
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Great Carrier Reef. By Jessica Stremer. Illus. by Gordy Wright. July 2023.40p. Holiday, $18.99 (9780823452682); e-book, $11.99 (9780823455256). K-Gr. 2.551.42.
This picture book introduces the Mighty O, a decommissioned U.S. aircraft carrier that was purposefully sunk off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef to help improve the surrounding ocean habitat. A combination of simple declarative sentences and sentence fragments describes the action in present tense, explaining how various types of ocean life need support, why a huge carrier makes a good substitution for a natural reef, and all the tasks that must be done to prepare the Mighty O for its new mission: severing cables and wires and removing copper, fuel, oil, and paint. The ship is carefully sunk with explosives, ensuring that it ends up on the ocean floor upright, exactly situated to have the greatest impact. These preparations are minutely detailed in illustrations that show the multiple simultaneous actions taking place on board the Mighty O, effectively contrasting the calm underwater scenes as fish, urchins, mollusks, and other ocean critters take up residence. This unique title with generous back matter will appeal to environmentalists and big-boat enthusiasts alike.--Kathleen McBroom
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McBroom, Kathleen. "Great Carrier Reef." Booklist, vol. 119, no. 19-20, 1 June 2023, p. 60. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A754223137/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=516a9fa0. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
* Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires. By Jessica Stremer. Illus. by Michael Garland. June 2024. 128p. Holiday, $22.99 (9780823454426); e-book, $13.99 (9780823459193). Gr. 5-8. 577.24.
Here is an exceptionally informative look at how the forest and the animals and plants that inhabit it adapt to survive devastating wildfires. Garlands beautifully illustrated woodcuts, alongside vibrant color photographs, complement Stremer's text about how wild animals' keen senses help them detect and avoid danger from wildfires. Still, their survival isn't guaranteed, and the chapter discussing animal rescues has a content warning about animal injury and death. The treatment that Dr. Jamie Peyton developed using tilapia fish skin to treat burns is just one of the interesting facts included in the book. The text emphasizes how wildfires can also be beneficial to some plant and animal survival, as well as to help with forest regrowth. Climate change, global warming, and "poorly managed, unhealthy forests" are attributed to megafires, but techniques like the prescribed burns practiced by Native Americans are being adopted. The book describes the skills that firefighters need and their specialized roles in fighting wildfires--and that they have nothing on the ability of goats and beavers to eat vegetation and scrub to decrease fuel for fires or build dams and canals that create fire-preventing wetlands. A timely, engaging book that is as illuminating as it is fun to read. (With "fire facts" sidebars, glossary, source notes, index.) --Sharon Rawlins
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Rawlins, Sharon. "Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires." Booklist, vol. 120, no. 17, 1 May 2024, p. 39. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A804016073/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=f93e8e99. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica LIGHTS OUT Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster (Children's None) $18.99 3, 5 ISBN: 9781665931977
The rescue of a disoriented sparrow introduces the problems that city lights pose for migrating birds.
A flock of sparrows sets out, but the glare of streetlights and bright signs prevents them from seeing the stars. They scatter, and one is left behind but is soon rescued by a girl and her father, who take the bird to a rehab center. Over the winter the sparrow heals, while the girl and her schoolmates mount a campaign to encourage people to turn their lights off at night during migration season. When the sparrows return in the spring, the lights have been turned off, the stars are visible, and they all find their way through the city safely--including the left-behind sparrow, who's since recovered. The simple, smoothly written text sits directly on a backdrop of digital illustrations featuring stylized city scenes and country landscapes, all of which would show nicely to a group. Readers may be slightly confused at the references to window collision; children may need the help of an adult to understand that reflective window glass and light pollution are two separate problems. (This difference is made clear in the backmatter.) Thoughtfully, the illustrator has shown gloved adult hands picking up the birds. The girl and her father are brown-skinned; the classroom is diverse.
A feel-good story of a successful children's campaign to make the world safer for birds. (information on light pollution, lights-out campaigns, how to help, and flyways; bibliography) (Informational picture book. 4-7)
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"Stremer, Jessica: LIGHTS OUT." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Feb. 2024. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A780841155/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=2fc55dbe. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica FIRE ESCAPE Holiday House (Children's None) $22.99 6, 11 ISBN: 9780823454426
Insights into how plants and animals control, survive, and recover from wildfires.
Thanks to climate change and the U.S. Forest Service's shortsighted Smokey the Bear campaign, massively devastating wildfires are becoming ever more common--but, as Stremer astutely explains, nature itself has mechanisms in place for mitigating the damage and even benefiting from fire. So, along with describing how fires actually help lodgepole pines and certain beetles reproduce, she notes how some trees are protected by their bark and naturally prune lower-hanging branches to make it harder for ground fires to reach the canopy; she also notes how both goats and beavers serve to make woodlands generally less flammable. The author surveys ways in which wild fauna respond to fires, how livestock and zoo animals are evacuated, and, in a chapter headed by a trigger warning, how badly injured creatures are (when possible) rescued and treated. After retracing the natural stages of post-fire regrowth, she closes with general accounts of how controlled burns are managed and of wilderness firefighters in training and action; she caps it all off with bountiful source notes, citations, and resource lists. Crisp, drama-heightening photos of smoky or burned-out woodlands and of heavily equipped firefighters (racially ambiguous due to angle or distance) are interspersed with Garland's handsome painted images of flora and fauna.
Must-reading on a hot topic. (glossary, bibliography, photo credits, index) (Nonfiction. 10-13)
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"Stremer, Jessica: FIRE ESCAPE." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Apr. 2024. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A788096978/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=0747e2d0. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica GREAT CARRIER REEF Holiday House (Children's None) $18.99 7, 4 ISBN: 9780823452682
A tribute to a decommissioned warship turned to a better purpose.
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, or "The Mighty O," saw action in the Korean and Vietnamese wars but rather than being scrapped at the end of its career, was scuttled off the Florida coast to serve as an artificial reef. It "remains the largest ship ever reefed," and a sense of its length and bulk comes through clearly in Wright's atmospherically lit, realistically detailed illustrations--some of which are full wordless spreads. Along with explaining in her spare account and one of several afterwords the importance of natural reefs as habitats and how they are endangered, Stremer highlights the painstaking efforts required to clear out the hulk, rid it of toxic substances, tow it to its final location, and control its sinking so that it comes to rest in a stable position. Amazingly, divers sent to inspect it only hours later found sea life already checking it out. Though Aimée M. Bissonette's Shipwreck Reefs (2021), illustrated by Adèle Leyris, provides glimpses of a variety of manufactured reefs and closer looks at what lives on them, here the author's quicker closing tally of marine residents gives the tale a properly triumphant finish. The groups of human workers appearing in a few scenes are racially diverse. (This book was reviewed digitally.)
Recycling at its best. (select sources, tips for saving the reefs, index) (Informational picture book. 6-8)
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"Stremer, Jessica: GREAT CARRIER REEF." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Apr. 2023. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A745234648/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=9c9cab3d. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN Holiday House (Children's None) $19.99 4, 1 ISBN: 9780823457038
A lyrical tribute to the scientists who solved an ecological mystery and spurred efforts to save many species from extinction.
In a spare narrative made up of free verse and reading like a detective story, Stremer describes the way declining populations of brown pelicans led concerned researchers to discover how the common pesticide DDT passed up food chains and weakened eggshells, to devastating effect. Only after the rising waves of public protest that ensued after one scientist "wrote a book / about springs / when songbirds would no longer sing" were officials forced to legislate efforts to ban the substance and protect vanishing species. It still took nearly 37 years for the pelicans to recover their numbers, Stremer continues--and even now they and many other threatened species are still in dire need of "people just like you" to "stand up, / speak out, / and inspire change." Readers will be further engaged in the cause by Wright's flowing scenes of ungainly pelicans diving and nesting, light- and dark-skinned scientists in lab coats and equally diverse marchers waving banners, and a wildlife crossing built over a busy roadway providing safe passage. For those in need of a little more solid information, she identifies some significant environmental laws (along with that anonymous "scientist" writer, who is, of course, Rachel Carson) in the backmatter, which includes more facts about pelicans, the specific effects of DDT, and the environmental movement's rise.
A scientific success story, with a cogent reminder that work remains to be done. (glossary, bibliography, index)(Informational picture book. 6-8)
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"Stremer, Jessica: PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Jan. 2025. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A821608612/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=cf4d602c. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community. By Jessica Stremer. Illus. by Josee Masse. May 2025. 48p. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman, $19.99 (9781665958165). PreS-Gr. 3.
An old willow tree grew in a schoolyard. Children would often gather under its branches to run, sit, and talk with their friends. But one day, a storm broke the willow's trunk. The students were dismayed. One asked if they could grow new willows. Soon, each child was trimming a broken branch from the tree, placing it in a bottle of water, and tending it carefully. While some plants didn't survive, most sprouted new roots and leaves. Next, the students took their little trees to a nursery, transplanted them into pots of soil, and gave them away to the townsfolk. Today, the old willow's descendants are flourishing in yards, parks, and even the schoolyard. Loosely based on actual events at a school where kids responded to losing a beloved tree by nurturing and planting its sprigs, the story is well paced and the graceful, digital illustrations are lovely. The extensive back matter provides information and ideas for adults who are inspired to improve public spaces by replacing invasive plants with native species and creating pollinator gardens.--Carolyn Phelan
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Phelan, Carolyn. "Wonderfully Wild: Rewilding a School and Community." Booklist, vol. 121, no. 13-14, Mar. 2025, p. 94. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A847202266/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=937d876a. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species. By Jessica Stremer. Illus. by Gordy Wright. Apr. 2025. 40p. Holiday, $19.99 (9780823457038). Gr. 1-4. 591.68.
This beautifully illustrated nonfiction in verse picture book invites young readers to dive deep into the plight of the brown pelican, endangered by the pesticide DDT in the 1950s. As the bird's population dwindles, a diverse team of scientists investigates the bioaccumulation of chemicals in the food web caused by DDT. Stremer delicately narrates this complex situation, making it accessible to even the youngest readers. The story highlights how scientists challenged chemical manufacturers, farmers, and the government, ultimately leading to the creation of the Endangered Species Act. This timeless message encourages young readers and activists to understand the history of the environmental movement and empowers them to "use their voice / louder / and / louder / to stand up, / speak out, / and inspire change." The back matter provides additional information on DDT, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the origins of the environmental movement, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Endangered Species Act, along with facts, a glossary, bibliography, and index.--Rachel Chapman
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Chapman, Rachel. "Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species." Booklist, vol. 121, no. 13-14, Mar. 2025, pp. 89+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A847202219/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=3f51806a. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica WONDERFULLY WILD Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster (Children's None) $19.99 5, 6 ISBN: 9781665958165
A joyful introduction to rewilding, or restoring ecosystems to their natural states.
When their beloved schoolyard willow tree is hit by lightning, students grow new trees from clippings while their teacher helps them learn about creating a more sustainable natural world. Stremer shapes her account, "loosely based on a real-life event," into an idealized free verse narrative that follows the students step by step as they trim branches and set them in water, watch the progress of new root formation, repot new trees, and replant them in the schoolyard. The author wisely presents the willow regrowth as an idea that came from a student, and she also points out that some plantings don't survive: "That's just how things go sometimes." The lessons extend further--the kids learn to weed out weeds, grow and plant wildflowers, create compost, and provide shelters for birds and pollinating insects. They share both their knowledge and their newly grown willow trees with the community. Masse's stylized illustrations add to the charm of this story. She portrays a diverse group of young students all actively engaged in the activities, both in the classroom and in the wider world, and having fun as they learn. Adults also appear, varying in skin tone; the whole community is clearly involved. Instructive backmatter completes the package, providing further information and guidance on plants and the rewilding process.
Hopeful and encouraging.(Informational picture book. 4-8)
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"Stremer, Jessica: WONDERFULLY WILD." Kirkus Reviews, 15 Mar. 2025. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A830532421/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=8daacd65. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.
Stremer, Jessica TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster (Children's None) $19.99 8, 26 ISBN: 9781665953177
Discover a time capsule of preserved ancient animals hidden within L.A.'s La Brea Tar Pits.
Dinosaurs are always a fan favorite, and a veritable plethora of relevant books exist to tempt youngsters, but what about the Pleistocene, with its fascinatingly strange ground sloths or dire wolves? Stremer illuminates this prehistoric period by sharing a secret: In a bustling Southern California neighborhood, under an innocuous-looking smudge of sticky tar, lie thousands of fossilized animal, insect, and plant remains. Jumping backward in time, the narrative follows an endearing mammoth who mistakes the tar for a watering hole and becomes trapped. Its struggle is tense and dramatic; young readers will feel for the animal as it trumpets for help, eyes wide with fear. Abruptly, the language becomes more clinical. Pitched to a young audience, the text clearly conveys facts about fossilization, covers the arrival of Native Americans and then European settlers, and explains why the site is so scientifically significant. Stremer never explicitly acknowledges, however, that the skull the scientists are excavating once belonged to the frightened mammoth, a potentially confusing omission. Strong backmatter provides more information on the tar pits; readers will appreciate the useful key of all the creatures depicted. Clean, earth-toned digital cartoon illustrations portray both extinct and current animals in easy-to-interpret tableaux. Human characters are diverse.
A captivating addition to the paleontology shelf. (selected sources)(Informational picture book. 5-10)
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"Stremer, Jessica: TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2025. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A843449868/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=2d0a17d4. Accessed 18 Sept. 2025.