Authors Joseph Robertia and Cynthia Baldwin present Life with 40 Dogs and Sarah's Days, Being A Cat
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Cats and Dogs: Author Joseph Robertia (2:00) discusses his book Life with Forty Dogs and author Cynthia Baldwin (54:33) presents Sarah’s Days: Being a Cat, An Alaskan Childhood Story. Cynthia Baldwin has published three children’s books including Sarah’s Days: Being a Cat, An Alaskan Childhood Story. The series called “Sarah’s Days,” are about a young girl based in Alaska who, in each book, has an adventure and at the end of the day goes home to tell her father about it. The daughter of Nick Baldwin of Kalskag and Patti Baldwin, Cynthia Baldwin was raised in McGrath and has lived in Fairbanks for most of her adult life. She has earned a bachelor’s degree in art and an MBA focusing on capital markets. Recently, she moved to Anchorage where she currently works for Calista Education and Culture, Inc. Joseph Robertia is author of Life with Forty Dogs. He says he wants to give readers a glimpse of what it’s like to truly live a half-feral Alaskan lifestyle, so they can vicariously experience and comprehend the magnitude of responsibility, and all the joy, pain, and myriad other emotions, that come from a life threaded through and through by the fur of forty dogs. Joseph Robertia is a professional writer, photographer and a UAA graduate. His articles and photographs have been published Alaska Magazine, Mushing Magazine, Reptiles Magazine, Salmon Trout Steelheader, and Alaska 50: Celebrating Alaska’s 50th Anniversary of Statehood. He has received multiple Alaska Press Club Awards, and he is a two-time recipient of the American Association of Zookeepers "Excellence in Journalism Award."
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