Charlotte Stevenson

Charlotte works professionally as a science writer, and you can find her other publications on her main science writing website. She has a broad portfolio, ranging from programmatic writing, strategic planning, and technical reports to more creative articles, op-eds, essays, and documentary scripts.

Charlotte has an M.S. and B.S. in Biology from Stanford University, where she spent many years at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, CA. She was a 2006 National John A. Knauss Legislative Marine...

Thank you to everyone who believed these books had a place in the world. I appreciate all your support.

Why the Highest Deep?

It's the name of my Children's Book Imprint, under which all these books have been published. Why? Good question.

One day, my two-and-a-half-year-old son came to the surface of the Oakland, CA, public pool we frequented that summer, and said, “I want to go to the highest deep you never seen.” In case you don’t speak toddler, he was saying he wanted to dive to the deepest depth ever — a classic toddler superlative spritzed with some grammatical confusion.

“I want to go to...

One day in first grade, my son, Balen, came home with some artwork captioned with the phrase, “no bien meen.” He didn’t have much of a story for why he chose to pay homage to such a phrase on this day, but I liked the sentiment. As a six going on 7-year-old boy with ADHD, anxiety, and sensory processing challenges, we were…shall we say…already close with the principal, vice-principal, social worker, and counselors. Mostly, he got in trouble for being unable to sit still, not staying in his “...

BeachBody. P90X. Brazilian Butt. Barry’s Bootcamp. Bringing Sally Up and Down. I’ve tried it all over the last decade. But about 10 weeks ago, I stumbled across this unbelievable new program called “Training Every Day with No Break and No Help with Kids in Quarantine.” Catchy title, right? I thought so too.

This program — let’s call it TEDQ — begins at 6 am, even on weekends, and does not end until at least 8 pm. You can’t squeeze this program into your lunch hour or do it every other day....