Grandmother's Pigeon

Jim LaMarche is an author and illustrator known for his picture books. His work often features animal characters and natural settings, as seen in his book "Ivy Takes Care."

Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota) is an American novelist, poet, and children's book author whose fiction centers on interconnected Ojibwe and mixed-heritage communities in North Dakota. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; her father was German American and her mother is Ojibwe and French. Her debut novel, Love Medicine (1984), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and introduced the fictional community that recurs across m...