Lorraine Jean Hopping • Hopping Fun Creations

PENGUIN
I created a cross country car race board game for young children to accompany the movie Speed Racer (2008).

GROLIER
I wrote hundreds of games, quizzes, puzzles, and "Today in History" essays for the online encyclopedias New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia! Access is by subscription only, but you can sign up for a free trial here.

SESAME STREET WORKSHOP
Panwapa Island is a new muppet program from the "Big Bird" folks. I helped develop the board game for this multicultural, multi-media extravaganza.

BECKER & MAYER
They create books that come with toys. In Explore Within an Egyptian Mummy, readers "dissect" the mummy model, layer by layer, as they turn the pages. Coming in 2009: World of Inventors: Leonardo da Vinci, which features a toy flying machine.

AUDUBON ADVENTURES
I enjoyed learning more about nature while writing essays and activities for this national magazine for children. Interested? Here's the website.

KIDS DISCOVER
I wrote some 20 themed issues (from astronauts to Yellowstone, and many topics in between) for this good-looking 'zine.

GARETH STEVENS
Crime science is one of my favorite topics. I wrote three titles for young children and tweens.

PEARSON BOOKS
I wrote Living on a Boat: One Family's Story for young kids and Hatshepsut: Egypt's Female Pharaoh for tweens.

NEWBRIDGE
Race to the South Pole recounts the chilling quest of Raold Amundsen and Captain Robert Scott to be the first human being to set foot on the South Pole.

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS
I've written more than 30 titles under the Cartwheel, Franklin Watts, and Professional Books imprints. (See "Selected Works," at right.)

MICROZINE and MICROZINE JR.
"Escape from Antcatraz" and other software scripts were a blast to write, even though the Microzine (a magazine on a software disk) didn't survive into the 21st century.

EDMARK/Riverdeep
I wrote software scripts and activity guides about the physics of light, astronaut Mae Jemison, volcanoes, geometry, strategy games, and more.

MICROSOFT'S Magic School Bus software
My educational guides are packed with activities and intriguing science questions. I also worked as an editorial science consultant on the animated television show, produced by Scholastic.

ARISTOPLAY
Besides Mars 2020 (see "Games" at right), I developed or invented more than a dozen high-quality, award-winning board games for families in the 1990s. The topics are as varied as my interests:
In the Land of Egypt
Who's at Home in the Animal Habitats?
Nova True Science (licensed product)
Top Dog: Live the Life of Rover in 6 Canine Adventures
A Time for Native Americans
Feeding Frenzy: A Population Balance Game
The Play's the Thing (Shakespeare)

KINETIC CITY SUPER CREW
Despite growing up on TV, I wrote humerous (I like to think) science mysteries for this children's radio show, produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).