JUDY YOUNG

Judy Young is the award-winning author of more than twenty children’s books, including the middle-grade novel Promise and the picture book A Pet for Miss Wright, which was read by LeVar Burton in a Reading Rainbow Story Time Video for National Reading Month. An avid outdoors person, Judy spent four months camping, hiking, and fishing in northwestern Canada and Alaska while doing research for The Missing Grizzly Cubs. Staying ten days in Denali National Park and Preserve, she encountered moose, caribou, Dall sheep, and grizzlies. Judy resides with her husband, Ross, in the mountains near Mink Creek, Idaho, where any day she may see deer, elk, moose, black bears, and mountain lions. For a behind-the-story adventure, see Buck Bray’s Wild World Scrapbook on Judy’s website, www.judyyoungpoetry.com.