Jabber the Steller's Jay. Sylvester Allred

      

      The Steller’s Jay

      Text © 2017 by Sylvester Allred

      Illustrations © 2017 by Diane Iverson

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Allred, Sylvester, 1946- author. | Iverson, Diane, illustrator.

      Title: Jabber the Steller’s jay / by Sylvester Allred ; illustrated by Diane

      Iverson.

      Description: Portland, Oregon : WestWinds Press, [2017] | Summary: Follows a

      Steller’s jay as she transforms from a helpless fledgling to an

      independent adult in the ponderosa pine forests of the American Southwest.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016034593 (print) | LCCN 2016058632 (ebook) | ISBN

      9781943328895 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781943328901 ()

      Subjects: LCSH: Steller’s jay--Southwest, New--Juvenile fiction. | CYAC:

      Steller’s jay--Fiction. | Jays--Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ10.3.A437 Jab 2017 (print) | LCC PZ10.3.A437 (ebook) |

      DDC [E]--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016034593

      Editor: Michelle McCann

      Designer: Vicki Knapton

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      Jabber the Steller’s Jay is dedicated to my siblings: Nina, Linda, Helen,

      David, Claire, and Janna. All of you have been so loving and supportive

      of me over the many years that we have been a family. —S. A.

      To Annalyssa and CJ, two tiny naturalists. —D. I.

      Acknowledgments: I’d like to thank the following individuals for their contri-

      butions to Jabber. Donna Nelson, my wife, for her constant support and

      encouragement of my writing. Jay Harrison, a colleague, made suggestions

      about publishing Jabber. Kathy Howard, acquisitions editor of Graphic Arts,

      read and passed the proposal forward for publication. Douglas Pfeiffer, former

      publishing director of Graphic Arts, was encouraging and receptive to Jabber’s

      publication. Michelle McCann, editor, offered constructive suggestions and