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Author and photographer Cat Urbigkit has five non-fiction children’s picture books in print with Boyds Mills Press:
Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs;
A Young Shepherd;
Puppies, Puppies Everywhere!;
Cattle Kids; and
The Shepherd's Trail.

She and her family are sheep and cattle ranchers in western Wyoming, where they also raise guardian dogs. She likes to spend her free time with nomadic sheepherders in western Wyoming, documenting their lives, and the lives of their sheep herds, through photography.

As a newspaper reporter, and publisher, Cat Urbigkit has won numerous awards for her coverage of agricultural and environmental issues. She has made it her priority to write factual books for children that promote positive views of agriculture in the United States. She's recently expanded her scope to begin work on several nature titles.

Cat's first adult nonfiction book, "Yellowstone Wolves: A chronicle of the animal, the people and the politics" was released in October 2008 by McDonald & Woodward Publishing.

Author and photographer Cat Urbigkit has five non-fiction children’s picture books in print with Boyds Mills Press: Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs; A Young Shepherd; Puppies, Puppies Everywhere!; Cattle Kids; and The Shepherd's Trail. She and her family are sheep and cattle ranchers in western Wyoming, where they also raise guardian dogs. She likes to spend her free time with nomadic sheepherde... More