RMKLF: Session for Littles, “Birds & Books,” with Sneed B. Collard III

Montana author Sneed B. Collard III shares his passion for nature and adventure, and describes how they inspire an endless variety of creative ideas. He’ll especially focus on how his love of birds and his travels to see them have shaped his most recent titles including Waiting for a Warbler, a finalist for the Green Earth Book Award.

Sneed B. Collard III has written more than eighty-five books for young people including Birds of Every Color; Fire Birds—Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests; Woodpeckers: Drilling Holes and Bagging Bugs; and Shep—Our Most Loyal Dog, winner of the Treasure State Book Award. In addition to his nonfiction, Sneed has written several popular novels including the chapter book mysteries The Governor’s Dog is Missing and Dog 4491. Sneed is an entertaining, award-winning speaker, and has visited more than six hundred schools in 40 states and 5 foreign countries. To learn more about him, visit his website www.sneedbcollardiii.com and check out the birding, writing, and photography blog he writes with his teenage son, Braden, at www.FatherSonBirding.com.