Marc Bekoff PhD and Alison Pearce Stevens at Bark! Fest
Learn about the rich inner lives of animals and how amazing dogs' noses are with Marc Bekoff (Love In Their Hearts) and Alison Pearce Stevens (Detective Dogs) join Bark! Fest.
By Zazie Todd PhD
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Join these two authors to learn about how books can inspire young readers to learn more about animals and take action for them.
Marc Bekoff's Love In Their Hearts: A Celebration of Animal Emotions and a Guide to Compassionate Action invites young and adult readers to explore the inner world of animals, blending cutting-edge research with calls to action. Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species by Alison Pearce Stevens tells the fascinating story of how dogs are using their noses to help three ongoing conservation projects. Readers young and old will enjoy this fascinating panel.
Weds September 23rd at 2 pm Pacific (5 pm Eastern / 10 pm UK time)
This event is hosted by Zazie Todd and Kristi Benson.
Please support the authors by getting their books which are available wherever books are sold, including my Amazon store and Bookshop, and most likely your local library too.
Love In Their Hearts by Marc Bekoff
Love In Their Hearts: A Celebration of Animal Emotions and a Guide to Compassionate Action by Marc Bekoff and Jeff Campbell.
A must-have book for animal lovers! From renowned ethologist and animal advocate Marc Bekoff and award-winning young-adult author Jeff Campbell comes a powerful and visually stunning exploration of animal emotions-and why they matter. With a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall.
Love in Their Hearts invites young and adult readers alike into the rich inner lives of animals, from dogs to dolphins, octopuses to orangutans, and bees to bears. Through moving, surprising, and often joyful true stories, the authors explore the widespread evidence of empathy, playfulness, curiosity, grief, anger, and love across the animal kingdom-challenging readers to rethink what they thought they knew about nonhuman beings.
Written for young adults but accessible and compelling for all ages, this inspiring volume blends cutting-edge research, firsthand accounts from leading scientists, and a stirring call to compassionate action. A foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall celebrates the book's message of hope, responsibility, and connection.
Also setting this book apart is its breathtaking wildlife photography, much of it by internationally acclaimed photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen. Featured throughout, these enthralling, intimate portraits bring readers inside the passionate hearts of our fellow animals.
Both eye-opening and soul-expanding, Love in Their Hearts is an essential read for animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, students, educators, and anyone who believes compassion can change the world.
Dr. Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, He has published over 30 books and won many awards for his research on animal behavior, animal emotions (cognitive ethology), compassionate conservation, and animal protection. He has worked closely with Jane Goodall as co-chair of the ethics committee of the Jane Goodall Institute, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow.
He also works closely with inmates at the Boulder County Jail. In June 2022, Marc was recognized as a Hero by the Academy of Dog Trainers. His recent books include the second edition of The Emotional Lives of Animals, and Jane Goodall at 90: Celebrating an Astonishing Lifetime of Science, Advocacy, Humanitarianism, Hope, and Peace. He also publishes regularly for Psychology Today.
Detective Dogs by Alison Pearce Stevens
Detective Dogs: How Working Dogs Sniff Out Invasive Species with Alison Pearce Stevens
A lively introduction to some of North America's most troublesome invasive species—and to the industrious dogs and handlers working to stop their spread!
Meet Fenton and Frost; Fagen and Dia; Hilo, Diesel, and Seuss. These intrepid environmental detectives are on the frontlines of the fight to stop the spread of invasive species—and all of them are dogs!
Pervasive and often difficult to locate, invasive species, and the economic and environmental harm they cause, have posed a continued challenge to scientists worldwide who dedicate their time to ecosystem conservation. Now, environmental scientists are harnessing the amazing olfactory abilities of working dogs to meet this challenge head-on.
Ecologist Alison Pearce Stevens’ engaging and accessible narrative writing showcases three ongoing conservation projects that use working dogs to tackle serious invaders in the U.S. and Canada. Readers will learn more about the threats posed by these species, and about the way scientists and handlers work with dogs to locate and eliminate them.
The book features extensive full-color photographs of detective dogs in action, taken onsite by the author as she accompanied conservation groups out into the field in Manitoba, Wyoming, and the Hudson Valley. Informative backmatter includes an index and bibliography.
Named to the NSTA-CBC Best STEM Books List!
A biologist turned children’s author, Alison Pearce Stevens writes fun nonfiction: articles, picture books, and middle grade books. All of her work is inspired by a love of science and nature. She’s a regular contributor to Science News Explores, Highlights, and other children’s magazines and authored Rhinos in Nebraska, Animal Climate Heroes, Detective Dogs, and the forthcoming picture book, When Beavers Move In. Her books have been Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections and won state book awards and a Blueberry Honor. They have also been included in year-end best-of lists, including Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books and NSTA/Children’s Book Council’s Outstanding Science Trade Book and Best STEM Book lists
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