DIANE LANGDiane Lang has been educating children and adults about the natural world for a quarter of a century throughout her home state of California, where she volunteers at a local nature center. As an author of six picture books about nature, she especiall likes to share the fascinating characteristics of oft-overlooked wild neighbors, such as turkey vultures, snakes, and spiders. She shares her home with her husband, who is an origami artist, two dogs, a desert tortoise, a Kenyan sand boa, and a Nicaraguan Curly-Haired tarantula. See some her favorites critters and a few of her poems at DianeLang.net.