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Our new children's book, Leopard and Silkie: And One Boy's Quest to Save Seal Pups with photographs by Robin Lindsey





Last week, after three years in the making -- and many seal pup Seal Sitting seasons, we went to press with our new children's book (ages 4-everyone). This book was a labor of love all round -- from the seals, Leopard and Silkie, who inspired this story, to the Seal Sitters who... read more »
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I Want to Be Left Behind: F...
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Build Me an Ark: A Life wit...
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Animal Heart
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Nature and Other Mothers
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Duck And Cover: A Novel
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Living by Water: True Stori...
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Singing to the Sound: Visio...
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Sister Stories
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“Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world”
Brenda Peterson

“I think people are very brave and often are a lot more frightened than they're allowed to admit. Life is much harder to live for most people than we want to admit. And so many things take a summoning up of courage. It makes one's own life a little bit easier when you can acknowledge that.
-Ursula LeGuin, interviewed by”
Brenda Peterson, Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening

“It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.”
Brenda Peterson, Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals, and Spirit




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