The Singer in the Stream: A Story of American Dippers (John Muir's Favorite Bird) by Katherine Hocker & Mary Willson Picasso author of Shop Class as

author of Shop Class as Soulcraft

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The Singer in the Stream: A Story of American Dippers (John Muir's Favorite Bird) by Katherine Hocker & Mary Willson Picasso author of Shop Class asAmerican dippers are small gray birds that live their whole lives near (and in!) fast moving mountain streams. Charming and unique in their habits, dippers were John Muir's favorite bird (he called them 'water ouzels'). This nonfiction book brimming with full color illustrations, detailed sketches, lively verse, and light humor takes readers to a rendezvous with a winged creature they might easily see on a stream side ramble throughout western North