Pets and Their Famous Humans illustrator-Lynd Ward she's spent her senior year

she's spent her senior year trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to her Grandma Lou after graduation

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Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time

a group of mysterious beekeepers

Pets and Their Famous Humans illustrator-Lynd Ward she's spent her senior yearDid you know that Mozarts pet starling was the inspiration for his Piano Concerto No. 17? Or that writer Dorothy Parker loved animals so much she let a pair of alligators swim in her bathtub? These are just a couple of the stories in this delightful and surprising collection that profiles the strong bond between humans and their pets. Some of these stories are touching: Frida Kahlo memorialized her pet deer Granizo in her painting The Wounded Deer.