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‘Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars’: Steven Rinella’s First Children’s Book Is a Treasure for the Ages

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‘Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars’: Steven Rinella’s First Children’s Book Is a Treasure for the Ages
Rinella said he was heavily influenced by how much time he spent outdoors growing up, an experience that he said shaped his parenting. Shannon Venditti
Salena Zito
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Within moments of unpacking the family’s copy of “Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars,” “MeatEater” host Steven Rinella’s first children’s book, my granddaughter Nora was pages deep in deciding which outdoor projects she wanted to do first.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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