Frances Backhouse

@franbwrites.bsky.social

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Author of books for kids & adults about beavers, bears, birds & more (www.backhouse.ca). Independent journalist. Associate Editor of SEJournal. Concerned citizen of Planet Earth.

A toddler looking at a book about beavers.
A cartoon panda wearing a crown and holding a book marches beneath a banner that says 2 days to World Read Aloud Day.
The cover of a book about bison superimposed over a photo of bison grazing in a mountain meadow. The book is "Bison: Community Builders and Grassland Caretakers" by Frances Backhouse. The photo on the cover of the book is of a bison cow and her calf.
Ten book covers.
Four small plants with yellow flowers growing above old dead grasses in a field.
A herd of bison in a mountain meadow with the cover of a kids' book about bison superimposed above.
Book cover: A painting of two beavers cutting down a tree. The book title (Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse) appears in the outline of a top hat, superimposed over the painting.
A photo of bison grazing in a grassland with a bison calf in front. Over top of the photos are (1) a list of Indigenous uses for parts of a bison, (2) a list of Indigenous names for bison, and (3) the cover of a book titled Bison.
A sealed cardboard box with a mailing label. A sticker on the side says "Orca: Canadian Creators, Stories, Owned."
Front covers of ten books for children.
A cartoon panda in a red dress standing with its arms in the air behind a banner that say 1 day to World Read Aloud Day.
A cartoon drawing of a owl waving one wing behind a banner that says 5 days to World Read Aloud Day.
A woman wearing a t-shirt with owls on it and a children's book about owls. The book title is "Owls: Who Gives a Hoot?" and the photo on the cover is of an adult long-eared owl and its chick in a nest.
A barred owl perched in a cedar tree.
A snowy owl skims across the Arctic tundra.
A bison cow and calf on the front cover of Bison: Community Builders and Grassland Caretakers by Frances Backhouse.