Artist and author, Mollie Eckelberry's work reflects her deep commitment to animals. She has written and illustrated 2 children's books, The Foxes of Kirby Hill, about natural habit and its loss, and Willa, about the training and use of seeing eye dogs. She has also written a memoir, Vest Pocket Farm. You can learn more at her website, www.vestpocketfarm.com

• Snowball Caught a Bug (February 2010), story of a pony that gets ill and recovers written by Joan Digby with cover and 8 illustrations by Mollie Eckelberry.