He lived in Porter Corners, New York (a hamlet north of Albany).

https://saratogaliving.com/bruce-hiscock-saratoga-author-dead-80/

By Will Levith.

If you grew up in Saratoga Springs during the mid-to-late 1980s (as I did), your parents likely took you to see Bruce Hiscock present one of his children’s books at the Saratoga Springs Public Library, back when it was housed in the present-day
Saratoga Arts building. Or maybe you just caught him during one of his countless story time sessions at a local school near you. He was a bit of a local celebrity.

Sadly, the award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, who published 12 books throughout his lifetime, passed away at his home in Porter Corners on July 11. He was 80.

Hiscock was born in San Diego, CA in 1940, but raised mostly in Ann Arbor, MI, save for nearly two years during which he lived in Shemya, AK, with his family on a remote island in the Aleutians West. Hiscock ended up returning to Ann Arbor for college,
where he studied chemistry at the University of Michigan, ultimately receiving a PhD from Cornell University. After working for more than a decade as a chemist—he was hired by Dow Chemical in the ’60s, served as an assistant chemistry professor at
Utica College in the ’60s and ’70s, and was named director of drug testing at the Saratoga Harness Track, where he worked in the ’70s and ’80s—Hiscock realized his heart was in children’s book writing and illustrating and went all-in in the
1980s, aptly focusing in on science- and natural history–related topics. “It wasn’t easy to get published,” Hiscock said of his change in careers, “but after years of rejections, things came around.”

Hiscock’s breakthrough came in 1986, when he published his first children’s book, Tundra: The Arctic Land, on the prestigious Atheneum Books for Young Readers imprint (now owned by Simon & Schuster), and followed it with 11 others that he either
wrote and illustrated, or just illustrated. These include: The Big Rock (1988, written and illustrated by Hiscock); The Big Tree (1991, written and illustrated by Hiscock); the award-winning The Big Storm (1993, written and illustrated by Hiscock); When
Will It Snow? (1995, written and illustrated by Hiscock); The Big Rivers: The Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Ohio (1997, written and illustrated by Hiscock); the award-winning Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest (2001, written and
illustrated by Hiscock); The Big Caribou Herd: Life in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; (2003, written and illustrated by Hiscock); Turtle Tide: The Ways of Sea Turtles (2005, written by Stephen R. Swinburne and illustrated by Hiscock); Wings of
Light: The Migration of the Yellow Butterfly (2006, written by Swinburne and illustrated by Hiscock); Ookpik: The Travels of the Snowy Owl (2008, written and illustrated by Hiscock); and Armadillo Trail: The Northward Journey of the Armadillo (2009,
written by Swinburne and illustrated by Hiscock)...

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https://dailygazette.com/2021/07/23/childrens-book-author-bruce-hiscock-dies/
(this obit includes a drawing of owls that he did)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22bruce+hiscock%22
(three read-alouds)


https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hiscock-bruce-1940
(biography & more)

Excerpt:

Bruce Hiscock has written a number of books about nature and wild animals. As he explained at his Web site, "As a kid, I spent a lot of time outdoors, and a lot of time drawing, too. Now I write about animals, trees, rocks, storms, and all the other
amazing things I see."

During his childhood, Hiscock lived for two years in the Aleutian Islands when his stepfather got a job there working on airplanes. He later studied chemistry in college and, after deciding that work as a chemist did not suit him, he turned to writing
and illustrating books for children. His work takes him to isolated and dangerous parts of the world where wildlife can still be found in an unspoiled state...

https://www.saratogian.com/2002/01/26/bruce-hiscock-renaissance-man/
(profile from 2002)

First quarter:

Bruce Hiscock does not fit easily into a category. To begin with, he is the author and illustrator of several award-winning children’s books. But he also holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University, built his Porter Corners house out of trees
and rocks from his nine-acre woods, loves to sing and play guitar and teaches his skills to everyone from children to adults. Oh, and he once walked with a herd of 70,000 caribou. Born in San Diego in 1940, Hiscock was raised in Ann Arbor, Mich. He lived
on the edge of town with his mother and grandparents (his parents were divorced), and spent much of his time exploring the nearby fields and woods. When Hiscock was 11 years old, his mother remarried, and the family moved to Alaska for two years. Hiscock�
��s experiences on Shemya, a small island in the western Aleutians, gave him a lifelong interest in Alaska and later influenced his books. Hiscock’s first and longest book, “Tundra” (now out of print), described the plants, animals and people of
the Arctic region. And the “terrific storms” in Alaska piqued Hiscock’s interest in storms, later expressed in “The Big Storm” (1993)...

(snip)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=563180349&q=books++bruce+hiscock&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTyZKMgJeBAxXFE1kFHS77BcEQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=1284&bih=844&dpr=1
(book covers)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/bruce-hiscock/
(six Kirkus reviews)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/186311.Bruce_Hiscock
(reader reviews)


WRITINGS:
SELF-ILLUSTRATED JUVENILES

Tundra: The Arctic Land, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1986.

The Big Rock, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1988.

The Big Tree, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1991.

The Big Storm, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1993.

When Will It Snow?, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1995.

The Big Rivers: The Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Ohio, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1997.

The Big Tree, Boyds Mills, 1999.

Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2001.

The Big Caribou Herd: Life in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2003.


ILLUSTRATOR

Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne, Nature's Great Carbon Cycle, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1983.

Pat Hughey, Scavengers and Decomposers, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.

James Jesperson and Jane Fitz-Randolph, Rams, Roms, and Robots, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1984.

James Jesperson and Jane Fitz-Randolph, From Quarks to Quasars: A Tour of the Universe, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1987.

Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne, Radioactivity, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1989.

James Jesperson and Jane Fitz-Randolph, Exploring the Invisible Universe, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1990.

Gail Haines, Sugar Is Sweet, and So Are Lots of Other Things, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1992.

James Jesperson and Jane Fitz-Randolph, Mummies, Dinosaurs, and Moon Rocks, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1995.

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