From rattlesnakes and pack rats to tortoises and javelinas, no author has made Arizona’s fauna so enthralling for kids than Tempe’s Conrad J. Storad.

From rattlesnakes and pack rats to tortoises and javelinas, no author has made Arizona’s fauna so enthralling for kids than Tempe’s Conrad J. Storad.

From rattlesnakes and pack rats to tortoises and javelinas, no author has made Arizona’s fauna so enthralling for kids than Tempe’s Conrad J. Storad.

About 20 percent of Tempe's jobs are technology-related, and many of those folks probably can't shake the stereotype that they're geeks.

Learn more about Arizona’s desert dwellers from an award-winning children’s author.

More than a dozen Arizona authors gathered at the Barnaby Street Shoppes in Surprise this weekend. The AZ Authors Weekend Community Event gave the authors the chance not only to sell their books, which ranged from mystery, crime, romance, self help, poetry, autobiography and western works, but also to meet with readers and other authors.

Conservation, sustainable living and the science of the Sonoran Desert will be the topics of free lectures and presentations this summer.

It was a whirlwind Thursday morning for Chandler’s Galveston Elementary School as Gov. Janet Napolitano gave each first-grader a new book about an animal that’s not a pig, but often gets mistaken for one.