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For Ava, who got me believing in skydiving beavers
Susan

illustrator’s Aacknowledgments
From the Idaho Department of Fish and Game: thanks to Sharon Clark, department historian
and archivist, for all your help in finding much-needed archival material; to Steve Nadeau,
wildlife biologist, and to Regan Berkley, wildlife manager, for pointing me in the right direction
(and all the back roads) during my research trip to Idaho.

Thanks to Becky Schwarz, Annie Fanta, and Geoff Gamble.
And a special big thanks and hugs to my grandkids, Noorah and Zayd, for being my kid models.
Gijsbert

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wood, Susan, 1965- author. | Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert van, illustrator.
Title: The skydiving beavers : a true tale / written by Susan Wood ;
illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.
Description: Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016026769 | ISBN 9781585369942
Subjects: LCSH: Beavers—Idaho—Juvenile literature. | Wildlife
relocation—Idaho—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC QL737.R632 W66 2017 | DDC 599.3709796—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026769

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