We’re kicking off the new year with two special guests!

Author Karlin Gray will be reading her recently published book Anne and Her Tower of Giraffes. Growing up Karlin lived in 13 homes (three in Japan) and attended eight schools because of her family’s Navy life. She is the author of the picture books Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still, An Extraordinary Ordinary Moth, Serena: The Littlest Sister and a graphic novel coming out this year. Nowadays, when she’s not writing, she shares her favourite biographies for kids at her TrueStory Bookshop and on TikTok.

Huntir Bass, is a third-year Mathematics PhD student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, who found a way to bring together her love for giraffes and mathematics into her master’s thesis. She conducted research over mathematically modeling giraffe population dynamics. By incorporating mathematical reasoning and principles, she determined some conditions needed for giraffe populations to increase by modeling their population behaviors. Huntir received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics while playing Division I volleyball from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as we continue to learn more about different ways in which people are helping giraffes!