Kathleen Yale is the author of the award-winning children’s book Howl Like a Wolf! and the game Guess My Animal! which both combine ecology, animal behavior, and imagination to engage children in creative play. She’s a former scriptwriter for the educational programs SciShow and Crash Course, and prior to that worked as a wildlife field biologist. She holds an MS in environmental studies from the University of Montana and lives outside of Glacier National Park, with her family.
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Board Game Gift Ideas for the Nature-Loving Kiddo
Looking for the perfect gift for a child in your life this holiday season? Want to foster their love for and attention to the natural world, even on the bleakest of Continue reading
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18 Book Recommendations for the Young Bookworm
Did someone say tiny pet glaciers, three-eyed foxes, fainting possums, beaver ponds, and beret-wearing snakes? That’s right, we’re back with more tried and true environmentally-engaged children’s book recommendations for your favorite Continue reading
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Searching for Home in (Very) Rural Amercia
BEFORE IRANIAN AMERICAN cartoonist Navied Mahdavian moved with his wife and dog from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho, he had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted, or lived Continue reading
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Duck, Chair, Bone, Suspense: A Conversation with Jon Klassen
FOR YEARS, when looking for a bedtime book to read with my young children, I inevitably drifted toward the Jon Klassen section of the shelf. It didn’t matter if we were Continue reading
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Daisy Parrotfish
SOMEWHERE IN THE reefy waters of the Indo-Pacific, a daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) is feasting on coral. She crunches up the hard knobs of calcium carbonate with her tough beaklike teeth, Continue reading
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32 Pets. 6 Weeks. One Winner: Orion’s Pet Madness Bracket Results
PET MADNESS WINNER: SNOOPY And… we have a winner. Snoopy takes the roses. When we started this wild ride, I honestly had no inkling who might win. But when Snoopy handily Continue reading
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Wolfish: A Conversation with Erica Berry
In which we discuss our mutual fascination with wolves, Erica’s new book Wolfish, fear, linguistics, wonder, our favorite werewolves, and the best wolf song to sing at karaoke night. (Spoiler: It’s Continue reading
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Roses Are Red, Sometimes: A Conversation with a Flower Expert
With Valentine’s Day looming, our digital editor Kathleen Yale called up Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, to talk about the ins and outs Continue reading
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The Mighty Modifications of the Yellow-Spotted Goanna
It’s a natural instinct to shelter our young underground, but the yellow-spotted goanna (Varanus panoptes) does this with remarkable determination and style. Not only is her burrow a unique helical shape, Continue reading
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Six Questions for Taylor Brorby, author of ‘Boys and Oil’
Set against the prairies and coalfields of North Dakota, Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land is a lyrical coming-of-age memoir about the loneliness of a Continue reading