• Sunday, January 6th at 4:00 P.M.(Talk)

Kenneth Talan, M.D. will talk about his latest book, Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track: What Parents & Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional & Behavioral Problems.   Essential reading for parents who are worried about a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems, this book is also a useful resource for social workers, psychologists, school counselors, pediatricians, & adult psychiatrists.   Dr. Talan, who lives in Amherst, practices Pediatric & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychiatry in Amherst & Northampton.   He has had a long association with the public school systems in the area & has served for over 20 years as a psychiatric consultant about troubled children to teachers, psychologists, counselors, & administrative staff.

• Saturday, January 12th at 2:00 P.M.(Book launch party)

Meet Lynn Levine, learn about animal tracks, & celebrate the publication of a new edition of Mammal Tracks & Scat.   Mammal Tracks is a life-size waterproof tracking guide that will help turn your tracking adventure into a magical experience.   This field guide is designed to be carried through brush, bramble & snow banks, & emerge unscathed.   By moving alongside a set of tracks, or finding scat, you can discover that the animal climbed a tree, found a mate, or marked its territory.   Levine is a consulting forester & an environmental educator focusing on the forest ecosystem.   She has been teaching tracking since 1988.   Levine is co-author of Working With Your Woodland.