![]() ![]() ![]() I had just finished reading The Yearling, so I figured a novel about a young boy in Canada who adopts an abandoned moose calf would be just the ticket. My love of stories soon became a zeal for "getting things down on paper." At age 11, I started my first novel, The Canadian Calf. I gobbled up The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth, The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley, and many others. Reading got me through and became a passion. Adjusting to new schools, sometimes a few a year, was hard. My father had migrated from the Oklahoma dustbowl to California in the 1930s, and migration never seemed to leave his blood. ![]() I was born in the Pacific Northwest, in southwestern Washington State, but we moved around a lot when I was young. ![]()
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