A great story and illustrations about piping plovers

Piping plovers are doing well in Maine, thanks to a lot of folks who look after them as they nest along our beaches.

And a new book, The Mystery Chick – A Piping Plover Story – by Glennis Chabot and Patricia Flint, captures just why so many have stepped up to help this awesome bird. The book is fiction, but includes lots of facts about plovers.

I really loved the marvelous and colorful illustrations by Claudia Diller in the book, published by Maine Authors Publishing.

I was pleased to see this on the back cover, written by Judy Camuso, DIF&W’s Wildlife Division Director when she wrote this. Now, she’s DIFW’s new Commissioner. Here’s what Judy wrote:

“The Mystery Chick is a wonderful introduction to the joys and challenges of wildlife conservation. It gives us a glimpse into the issues impacting wildlife and populated areas and how even kids can make a difference when it comes to wildlife conservation.”

Please be sure to share this book with your kids and grandkids. In the back of the book is a great list of what each of us can do to protect piping plovers.

 

George Smith

About George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.