We are pleased to note that our friend Kate Jackson, who detailed her fieldwork adventures in Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo, which has been called "an inspiration to future field biologists" (Choice) and which contains some of the most explicit descriptions of maggots burrowing into a researcher's skin that you'll find in any Harvard Press book, has taken a somewhat different tack with her next project. Katie of the Sonoran Desert: Based on a True Story is a bilingual children's book from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press that gives us "the true story of Katie, a meter-long western diamondback rattlesnake,
and her adventures as she struggles to make a life for herself in the
harsh Sonoran Desert." Nothing better for the burgeoning bilingual herpetologist in your family.
Kate is pictured at right, in a photo from Mean and Lowly, wrangling Grayia ornata, which goes by many names, including the Ornate African Water Snake.
