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    Picture book Snow Geese Season draws on Vermont's fall goose migration

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    Author Angela Burke Kunkel and illustrator E.B. Goodale discussed with NPR their picture book about a boy and his grandfather waiting before dawn for snow geese.

    NPR reports on Snow Geese Season, a new picture book by Angela Burke Kunkel, illustrated by E.B. Goodale, about a boy and his grandfather waiting in a field before dawn for snow geese.

    Kunkel lives near Vermont's Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, where geese gather each fall on their way south; Vermont Fish & Wildlife says viewing usually runs from early October into mid-November.

    Goodale, struck by Vermont's predawn colors, combined watercolor washes, monoprints in oil-based inks and final oil-paint line work.

    Kunkel said she linked the story to a childhood woods walk with an uncle during her parents' separation only after she had finished writing it.

    Why it matters

    Kunkel says the book centers on quiet moments outdoors that turn out to matter a great deal to someone.

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      The story opens with a grandfather waking a boy while it is still dark; the pair then drive by houses and farms to reach a field.

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      Angela Burke Kunkel, who wrote the new picture book Snow Geese Season, says it concerns a quiet moment in nature that comes to matter greatly to someone.

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      Kunkel's Vermont home is near the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, where geese blanket the ground each fall while migrating south; Vermont Fish & Wildlife says viewing usually runs from early October into mid-November.

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      Illustrator E.B. Goodale traveled to Vermont to see the geese and was struck by the colors there before sunrise.

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      For the art, Goodale combined watercolor washes, monoprints made with oil-based inks, and line work in oil paint.

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      According to Kunkel, Goodale visited Vermont twice; Kunkel also recalls an uncle taking her on a woods walk while her parents were separated.

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      Kunkel says she tied that childhood memory to the story only after finishing the book.

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    1. NPR
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