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Tim Champlin

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Novelist Tim Champlin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, only 80 miles from Jamestown, North Dakota where fellow western novelist Louis L'Amour was born 29 years earlier. Similarities in their histories don't end there. They both have French/Irish ancestry and the fathers of both writers were large-animal veterinarians--a fact that may explain their mutual love of horses, buffaloes and other wild and domestic critters. Drawing on his familiarity with the West,his knowledge of western fiction and his admiration for L'Amour, Champlin has written THE WILD WEST OF LOUIS L'AMOUR for Voyageur Press...

Bridget Heos

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Bridget Heos is the author of THE MUSTACHE BABY series, illustrated by Joy Ang, STEGOTHESAURUS, illustrated by T.L. McBeth, FAIRY'S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, illustrated by Sara Not, TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE LAMB, illustrated by Sarah Jennings, and QUEEN DOG, illustrated by Alejandro O'Keefe. She has also written more than 100 nonfiction children's titles, including I, FLY, with illustrations by Jennifer Plecas, the ANIMALS: JUST LIKE US series, with illustrations by David Clark, SHELL, BEAK, TUSK, and BLOOD, BULLETS, AND BONES: THE STORY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE FROM SHERLOCK HOLMES TO DNA. Bridget lives in Kansas...