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Laura Erickson has been writing and speaking about birds, and promoting their conservation, for thirtyfive years. Her daily radio spot and iTunes podcast “For the Birds” airs nationally, and she has written four previous books about birds, including Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids, which received the National Outdoor Book Award. BetsyBowenis a renowned woodcut printmaker and painter. She has illustrated several books, among them Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, Borealis, Wild Neighborhood, and Big Belching Bog, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. She lives in Grand Marais, Minnesota. ...

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