The Loch Ness Monster delighted author Kelly Milner Halls as a kid. When she explored writing a book about lake monsters, she discovered the broader realm of cryptozoology—mysterious animals that may or may not be real. Now she’s collected crypto-evidence for fifteen years and she’s ready to share some of it in this presentation. Ideal… Continue Reading Cryptozoology with Kelly Milner Halls

Six of Kelly Milner Halls nonfiction books for young readers are about dinosaurs. Why? Because she loved catching lizards as a kid in Houston, Texas. When she met dinosaurs for the first time, she loved them too, and that love stuck. She’ll offer a beginner’s lesson in comparative zoology in this presentation for younger dinosaur… Continue Reading Dinosaurs: Comparative Zoology with Kelly Milner Halls

In 2006, TALES OF THE CRYPTIDS was published. When Kelly Milner Halls started the research, she believed she would prove all the mysterious animals describe within the category were fake. She discovered that Bigfoot might be real, so she wrote another book about the believers. Could this creature spotted on almost every continent in the… Continue Reading In Search of Sasquatch with Kelly Milner Halls

She hasn’t written a book about mythical animals, but she loves them…not because they are real, but because the fictional creations have such epic origin stories. This presentation will explore six popular favorites – dragons, unicorns, mermaids, griffins, centaurs and Pegasus. Just because they aren’t real, doesn’t mean our love for them is imaginary. Ideal… Continue Reading Mythical Mysteries with Kelly Milner Halls