Margery Facklam, an award-winning author of natural science books for children, died February 21. She was 87. The Buffalo News reported that two of her books, Do Not Disturb: The Mysteries of Animal Hibernation and Sleep and Partners for Life: The Mysteries of Animal Symbiosis, were named Outstanding Science Trade Books by the Children's Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association. And Then There Was One: The Mysteries of Extinction was chosen best book of 1990 by the School Library Journal. In 2005, the New York State Library Association honored Facklam with the Knickerbocker Award for her body of work.
