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  Rick Chrustowski
Credit: Andrew Karre
Biography
I grew up in a large, loud family in Northwestern Indiana. I have four sisters and one brother. We had a blast playing outside in the fields and forests near home.

It was great growing up near a big city like Chicago. I was able to go to art museums and concerts. I went to college there for a while, but decided that I was missing nature too much. I moved to Madison, Wisconsin to get my bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin.

I lived on a hobby farm for 20 years, raising chickens and horses. I also had dogs and cats and goldfish. But the wild animals that came through my backyard fascinated me the most. They inspired my art and writing. Many of them have made their way in the books I have written and illustrated. My tenth book, Bee Dance, has just been published.

Now I live in an old house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of the bedrooms is my studio. I am growing as much of my own food as I can in the backyard. And there is plenty of room for flower gardens to attract bees and butterflies and birds.

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