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The best of friends are often found in the most unexpected places. Miss Henrietta, a cranky recluse who lives in the Ozark backwoods, and Lillian, an eleven-year-old girl, become friends despite their rock-throwing, bone-chilling introduction. Miss Henrietta doesn't like people--especially kids--and Lil fears the old woman is the Woodsy Witch rumored to live in that holler. Both their lives are changed by a series of hilarious adventures, disasters, and impossible situations. Whether rescuing Lillian's brother from dreadful Aunt Bertha in Oklahoma, yelling down a black bear, understanding problematic parents, scaring the pee out of Great Unknown, dancing for tips at the farmers' market, learning French, cooking on an open fire, or pondering the meaning of love, Miss Henrietta has a bizarre and crusty way of looking at life. Half the time, Lillian believes the ol' woodsy woman is truly crazy because of belief in magic and wild tales of world travel. Lillian earns Miss Henrietta's respect and admiration by her perseverance and fearlessness in challenging the logic of anyone or anything. Together they make sense of the world and find a sense of kinship neither anticipated.

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Award winning songwriter/performer, Crow Johnson Evans has passion for apparently disparate fields-writing books, studying zoology, songwriting, performance, teaching workshops, spinning wool, weaving, sketching, bird watching, and travel. I'm intrigued by the power of Nature and its interplay in human life and dreams. The challenge for me as a writer is to express all the color, sound, texture, and emotions of the characters in a way that the reader feels them too and cares. Her first book, Flights of Fancy was a collection of essays, short stories, memoir, lyrics, a novella and other pieces. Crow's upcoming project for Oghma is a series of children's picture books about bird watching-through the eyes of children living at the eco lodges. The Bird People are Coming- to Sulawesi will be the first of six books. She and her husband, Arthur, live in Northwest Arkansas, and enjoy wilderness, laughing too much, good friends, and eco-touring. A founding board member of the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, she cheers the fire of creativity that writers, artists, and musicians kindle-if given some space, time, and inspiration.

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