Andy Boyles

Andy is the science editor at Highlights magazine and its trade book division, Boyds Mills Press. He used to write about psychiatry and molecules at medical centers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Galveston, Texas, but he hasn't done that since he joined Highlights seventeen years ago. Andy works to acquire articles and books that (1) help kids develop a deep, lasting connection with nature or (2) show that science is an ongoing, self-correcting process or (3) both. Some of his book projects include Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator (Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor) and Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (ALA Notable Books), both by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell; What Bluebirds Do (John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12) by Pamela Kirby; and Cicadas! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle. Andy is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the National Science Teachers Association.