The following were written by Douglas Chadwick, a field biologist and author. His many book publications include The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye With Whales and his recent children's book, Growing Up Grizzly. It's a wonderful true story about a bear family -- a big-hearted mother with three new cubs -- who adopted a much older cub. The illustrations are photos of those actual bears, who live on the wild coast in Alaska.

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