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How to Be a Good Creature
by Sy Montgomery
Illustrator: Rebecca Green
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 978-0-544-93832-8
Keywords: Social/Emotional learning, Empathy, Human-Animal relationship
These autobiographical essays chronicle the lives of pets and research subjects that most impacted the animal behavior journalist. Graphite, gouache, and stamped ink illustrations. Black-and-white family photos. Further readings.