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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.

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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 9th, 1956

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