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In the past week alone, the New York Times has run three stories about birds and birders. A participant on a recent trip where I was...

I can’t say we were close friends, or even that I knew her well. Though we collaborated on three books, we met just twice. The first was...

Some books are are more challenging for the writer than others. For me, In the Sea, the third book in the Candlewick poetry series, was...

Every book teaches the writer something. Or it should. This second book in the series taught me two things. The first was how little I...