Kathleen Yale is Orion‘s digital editor and 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 lives outside of Glacier National Park, with her family.
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An Interview with Tommy Orange
Orion recently had the pleasure of connecting with author Tommy Orange for a brief conversation about his eagerly awaited second novel, Wandering Stars, reading habits, how Native history is taught, the Continue reading
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The Romantic Woes of the Giant Panda
THE ROMANTIC WOES of captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are legendary. Picture it: the iconic emblem of wildlife conservation in pudgy silhouette, idly munching through a pile of bamboo. Nearby, a Continue reading
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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