About the Book
BFFs! Black-Footed Ferrets: Love for One of North America's Most Endangered Mammals is a photo-illustrated book dedicated to appreciating and saving one of the most endangered mammals in North America. Enjoy rare photographs of black-footed ferrets on the prairie prowling, peeking out of prairie dog holes, cuddling with their families, and even dancing! These adorable little bandits just might become your new BFFs! The book is 64 pages long with over 130 images. Written for ages 6-9+, its compelling photographs and fact-filled pages will engage readers from 6 to 96! BFFs! Black-Footed Ferrets was written and photographed by Naturalist/Photographer Elaine Miller Bond and designed and edited by the award-winning team of Geir and Kate Jordahl, True North Editions.
About the Author :
Elaine Miller Bond is a children's book author and wildlife photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author and photographer of BFFs! BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS: Love for One of North America's Most Endangered Mammals (True North Editions). And she is the author and photographer of WILD COLORS OF THE WEST, RUNNING WILD, and LIVING WILD (Heyday Books)-fun board books about wildlife and wild places. She wrote THE PUPFISH HERO: Who Found Bravery and Buckets . . . AND SAVED A SPECIES! (SierraForever) a picture book biography of courageous fishery biologist, Edwin "Phil" Pister.Bond photographed the scientific book, THE UTAH PRAIRIE DOG (University of Utah Press), by Dr. Theodore Manno and wrote the foreword to his second book, SWAMP RAT (The University Press of Mississippi). Her photographs have appeared on Discovery Channel Canada, and publishing credits include Science, Scholastic, NPR online, BBC Earth News, The American Naturalist, The Washington Post, Bay Nature Magazine, and scientific and popular books.She earned her Master of Philosophy degree in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge in England and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Physical Geography from the University of California at Berkeley.Bond began her career as Senior Science Writer for the University of California Natural Reserve System, where, in addition to writing periodicals and other environmental publications, she wrote grants for, developed, and coordinated a field-based program for at-risk high school students, which motivated some to study ecology and pursue higher education. TRUE NORTH EDITIONS - Kate JordahlKate Jordahl brings her love of books and passion for images to the creation of a variety of visual projects. With her husband, Geir Jordahl, she founded True North Editions in 2012 as a collaborative effort to give voice to unique work by artists working authentically. They have worked together as a team since 1980 as editors, curators, and imagemakers.The Jordahl's book projects include San Joaquin: River of Spirit with the Ansel Adams Gallery, Searching for True North with Modernbook Editions, Native American Ceremonial Dancers, The Village: Bill Owens - Jamaica, Pride: Heart of a Movement and Bill Owens: CARS. Collaborations with Dreaming Mind including Traveler, Jizo, the Conversation Series, and the one poem books.sBook awards include a Gold Medal and Best of Show in the PubWest Book Design Awards, a Silver Medal in Prix de Paris and a Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for Searching for True North and a Silver Award-Photography and a Bronze Award-Art in the PubWest Book Design Awards for Native American Ceremonial Dancers. The Jordahls also edited, published, and designed Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul which features the photographs of Oliver Klink. Cultures in Transition has been awarded international nine awards including the 2019 IPPY Gold Award from the Independent Publisher and the 2019 Judges' Choice Award and a 2019 Gold Award from PubWest.Kate Jordahl has Masters of Fine Arts Degrees in Photography from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. In 1983, she founded with Geir Jordahl, the PhotoCentral Program in Hayward, California, and they were directors of PhotoCentral until 2020. Kate is a Professor Emerita of Photography at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California. The Jordahls now operate True North Editions, based in Bellingham, Washington. Their current publications are "The Endless Sphere of Time" with spherical photographs by Geir Jordahl and "Poetry in Motions" with the equine photographs of Oliver Klink. Geir Jordahl brings his love of books and passion for images to the creation of a variety of visual projects. With his wife, Kate Jordahl, he founded True North Editions in 2012 as a collaborative effort to give voice to unique work by artists working authentically. They have worked together as a team since 1980 as editors, curators, and imagemakers.The Jordahl's book projects include San Joaquin: River of Spirit with the Ansel Adams Gallery, Searching for True North with Modernbook Editions, Native American Ceremonial Dancers, The Village: Bill Owens - Jamaica, Pride: Heart of a Movement and Bill Owens: CARS. Collaborations with Dreaming Mind including Traveler, Jizo, the Conversation Series, and the one poem books.sBook awards include a Gold Medal and Best of Show in the PubWest Book Design Awards, a Silver Medal in Prix de Paris and a Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for Searching for True North and a Silver Award-Photography and a Bronze Award-Art in the PubWest Book Design Awards for Native American Ceremonial Dancers. The Jordahls also edited, published, and designed Cultures in Transition: Spirit Heart Soul which features the photographs of Oliver Klink. Cultures in Transition has been awarded international nine awards including the 2019 IPPY Gold Award from the Independent Publisher and the 2019 Judges' Choice Award and a 2019 Gold Award from PubWest.Geir Jordahl has Masters of Fine Arts Degrees in Photography from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. In 1983, he founded with Kate Jordahl, the PhotoCentral Program in Hayward, California, and they were directors of PhotoCentral until 2020. The Jordahls now operate True North Editions, based in Bellingham, Washington. Their current publications are "The Endless Sphere of Time" with spherical photographs by Geir Jordahl and "Poetry in Motions" with the equine photographs of Oliver Klink. Both books will be published in 2025.
