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Front Cover by Doug Roy January 2020

Volume 27 Number 1

2 An Early Spring! by Ed Shems James M. O’Connor, Director of Editorial
Maria Hlohowskyj, Editor
Emily Cambias, Assistant Editor
4 Doodlebug & Dandelion by Pamela Dell Julie Peterson, Copyeditor
Suzanne Beck, Senior Art Director
9 Thanks, Snow by Beverly McLoughland Shavan Spears, Designer
Michael Chesworth, Artist, SPIDER bugs
10 Tucker’s Hill by Alicia McHugh Adrienne Matzen, Permissions Specialist

14 Snowpeople on Sticks by Heather Tietz
Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following publishers and copyright owners
for permission to reprint selections from their publications. All possible care has been
16 The Draw-Anything Drawing taken to trace ownership and secure permission for each selection: Cover art © 2010
by Doug Roy; “Tucker’s Hill” art © 2006 by Phyllis Pollema-Cahill; “Snowpeople On
Sticks” art © 2007 by Susan Kwas; “Wishes” art © 2014 by Alice Feagan; “The Golden
by Maggie Murphy Rat” text © 2007 by Deepa Agarwal, art © 2007 by Anne Reas.

Photo acknowledgments: 10-13 (BG) arigato/Shutterstock.com; 10 (LT) nrey/
21 Wishes by Carol R. Gavounas Shutterstock.com; 22-25 (BG) vata/Shutterstock.com; 22 (LT) tinta/Shutterstock.com;
22 (RT) Melting Spot/Shutterstock.com; 22 (BC) Olana22/Shutterstock.com; 23 (TC)
melissaenderle/Shutterstock.com; 23 (RT) gnanistock/Shutterstock.com; 23-25 (spots)
22 Powder Art by Viji K. Chary Vidya Thotangare/Shutterstock.com; 24 (LT) Arvind Balaraman/Shutterstock.com; 24 (RT)
Don Mammoser/Shutterstock.com; 24 (LB) Tim Gainey/Alamy Stock Photo; 25 (LT) Mazur
Travel/Shutterstock.com; 25 (RT) Premraj K.P/Alamy Stock Photo; 25 (RB) gnanistock/
26 The Golden Rat by Deepa Agarwal Shutterstock.com; 26-31 (BG) Attitude/Shutterstock.com; 26-31 (border) Veronique G/
Shutterstock.com; 26 (CC) Veronique G/Shutterstock.com; 39 (RB) Tim Gainey/Alamy
Stock Photo; 36-39 (BG) Svaga/Shutterstock.com; 35 (TC) Texturis/Shutterstock.com; 35
(BG) Kostenko Maxim/Shutterstock.com; 35 (spot) Gluiki/Shutterstock.com; 35 (spot)
31 Bug Adventure by Michael Chesworth nevodka/Shutterstock.com; 35 (border) Tatiana Kasyanova/Shutterstock.com; 35 (TC)
Kristin F. Ruhs/Shutterstock.com.
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