Discovering Wolves investigates current research and wolf-human conflicts in addition to the natural history of wolves. It helps dispel myths about wolves as predators while making clear their plight as threatened or endangered species. Discovering Wolves provides 18 FUN, thought-stimulating activities designed to help children exercise critical thinking skills. Information updated with every printing. Now includes a full colored sheet of 34 realistic wolf stickers.
Disney's recent Beauty and the Beast portrays a pack of ravening wolves attacking a healthy horse and an equally healthy rider. Users of this fine workbook, fully equipped with the facts, will be able to dispute that image. In forty short pages, the life cycle of wolves, their relationship to humans and to their environment, and their plight as threatened or endangered species is made clear. Exercises are paired with information, sparking the reader's interest while simultaneously helping him/her learn important facts. For those teaching about wolves, this is an indispensable resource.
Corliss Karasov, a science writer for more than eighteen years, received her bachelor's training in biology at the University of Minnesota and did graduate coursework in biology and journalism at UCLA. She started writing about science when she worked as a naturalist for Minnesota State Parks and as a consulting representative for National Audubon Society in California. She has since written for more than 100 medical and scientific books, textbooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, and museum projects. She has a special love of helping children and adults discover the excitement of science and the natural world. She has lived on four continents. She now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with a husband, two daughters, 3 dogs and two birds. Her husband, Bill, is a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin Nancy Field has BS in biology and science education from the Univ. of Wisconsin and an MS in wildlife biology from South Dakota State Univ. She has been certified by the Wildlife Society as an associate wildlife biologist. Since co-organizing the first Earth Day at South Dakota State University in 1970, she has aimed to help children develop a love for nature and an environmental ethic. She is the author of twelve interactive nature books for children, several best sellers. Over 80,000 copies of Discovering Endangered Species have been sold since 1990. Other titles include Discovering Wolves, Discovering Marine Mammals and Discovering Salmon. She has taught at the junior high, senior high and several colleges, including Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, Wash, Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, Or. and Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or. She has taught college classes on the principles of biology and environmental education to future elementary teachers. She is the mother of three and the grandmother of two young children. She lives in Middleton,Wisconsin where her husband is a professor in forestry.
