Buddy The Wayward Wolverine

Posted on April 26, 2013 by foresterartist

Buddy The Wayward Wolverine is based on the real life lone wolverine living in California. Nobody knows how he got here. He is related to the wolverines of the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. This is the fantastical tale of Buddy’s journey. Written by Maryᴀ Livingston, The Backdoor Artist, and Amanda Shufelberger, the main Buddy biologist. Illustrated by yours truly the Forester Artist.

We will be at a book signing at the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival, in Redding, California at City Hall on Saturday, April 27th from 10am to 4pm. Come down to the Red Tail Publishing booth if you are in the area.

Buddy The Wayward Wolverine is also available at REDTAIL.COM.

37 thoughts on “Buddy The Wayward Wolverine”

poppytump on April 26, 2013 at 10:29 pm said:

Good Morning Tim 🙂
Buddy sure is clinging on for dear life there in that icy looking canyon river ! I had look at your links What a great collaberation between you all .
I had to look at google maps to see how far Idaho is from Califorinia … some journey for a little wolverine 😉
Hope you have a brighter weekend than the last few days … x

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 5:43 pm said:
  
  Thank you Poppy. Buddy was a fun project to do. I’m sure it won’t be the last we will hear from Buddy either.
  
  As for the weekend it will all get better. We soldier on.
  
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  - poppytump on April 28, 2013 at 4:09 am said:
    
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Kodiak My Little Grizzly on April 26, 2013 at 11:53 pm said:

Very very cool!!! A bit of a travel for us… But very cool. We will have to check this book out for sure! How truly exciting for you and your family!!!!

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 5:46 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much. We had a lot of fun doing it.
  
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Helen on April 27, 2013 at 4:32 am said:

Hope you had a great day at the book signing. Congratulations on fulfilling your journey / project too! 🙂

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:07 pm said:
  
  Thank you Helen. We are back from book signing and it went very well. It is good to have it done and out. Now on to the next project.
  
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Helen on April 27, 2013 at 4:36 am said:

Redtail don’t have info about international shipping 😦

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:09 pm said:
  
  The folks at Red Tail say they are working on it. I will pass along you comments.
  
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andelieya 安德洌雅 (official) on April 27, 2013 at 5:35 am said:

Wow! Congratulations! That’s awesome!

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:10 pm said:
  
  Thank you Andelieya!
  
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Mirna Morgan on April 27, 2013 at 8:42 am said:

I would love to to attend but I am very far away from there. Anyway keep us informed. And the illustration is beautiful. Congratulations and much success.

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm said:
  
  Thank you so much Mirna.
  
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slurryart on April 27, 2013 at 8:52 am said:

Happy book signing! Best wishes ~Scott

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm said:
  
  Thank you Scott
  
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sefeniak on April 27, 2013 at 10:49 am said:

Congratulations!

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 6:16 pm said:
  
  Thank you Susan.
  
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Alli Farkas on April 27, 2013 at 1:04 pm said:

You might be interested in reading this story about another very wayward wolverine:
http://www.foundmichigan.org/wp/2012/09/19/tracking-michigans-last-wolverine/
I found it quite moving.

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- foresterartist on April 27, 2013 at 7:39 pm said:
  
  Thanks for sharing Alli. I had heard of the Michigan wolverine, but had never read the account. They had a lone female and we have a lone male. Like two ships that passed in the night.
  
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WM on April 27, 2013 at 9:14 pm said:

Congratulations to you both, Marya and Tim! 🙂 🙂 🙂 A cover is amazing.

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- foresterartist on April 28, 2013 at 5:20 am said:
  
  Thank you Wanda.
  
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Kira on April 29, 2013 at 12:01 pm said:

Congratulations! It sounds like a wonderful collaboration 🙂

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- foresterartist on April 29, 2013 at 3:08 pm said:
  
  It was indeed. Although, these projects are always grueling, so I’m glad it is done. Now time to move on to the next one!
  
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  - Kira on April 29, 2013 at 3:26 pm said:
    
    Maybe a quick rest between projects 🙂
    
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    - foresterartist on April 29, 2013 at 4:34 pm said:
      
      maybe…..
      
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      - Kira on April 29, 2013 at 4:43 pm said:
        
        I’m thinking that’s probably a not much rest in between….LOL
        
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      - foresterartist on April 29, 2013 at 9:45 pm said:
        
        There has been a decent break in between, but it’s all the stuff I neglected that I have to catch up on. Nobody does my chores for me…bummer. 😦
        
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      - Kira on April 30, 2013 at 3:18 pm said:
        
        Yeah…I have that same problem! lol We really need to work on finding a chore person 🙂
        
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      - foresterartist on May 1, 2013 at 5:32 am said:
        
        Indeed!
        
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ruthsartwork on April 29, 2013 at 3:03 pm said:

How much fun is this! Congratulations. I hope you had a great time at the book signing.

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- foresterartist on April 29, 2013 at 3:19 pm said:
  
  The project was really fun. The book signing went great. Although, be the end I think it was about 95 degrees out and it was an outside event. That isn’t a bad temp around here, but for April 27th it was a bit early.
  
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elenacaravela on April 29, 2013 at 4:38 pm said:

A terrific collaboration!

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- foresterartist on April 29, 2013 at 9:22 pm said:
  
  Thank you Elena.
  
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Shawna Lampi-Legaree at Dancing Raven Studio on April 29, 2013 at 10:32 pm said:

So cool. I am definitely going to have to get a copy for my grandson! Congrats!!!!

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- foresterartist on April 30, 2013 at 5:36 am said:
  
  Thank you Shawna. I haven’t forgotten your photo.
  
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GrowlTigger on April 30, 2013 at 11:51 am said:

Congratulations on a fine project! The illustrations shown on the Redtail link looked very good and the book and related videos tell a fascinating tale. Being from the UK I had to check the locations, but Idaho is a fair distance from California. Buddy seems quite at home in the snow of Sierra County, in the videos at least.

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- foresterartist on May 1, 2013 at 5:20 am said:
  
  Thank you Paul. It is quite a mystery as to how Buddy came to be in California, but we sure had fun coming up with our version of his story.
  
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