Allan W. Eckert is an historian, naturalist, novelist, poet, screenwriter and playwright.  He is the author of thirty-nine published books, and has been nominated on seven separate occasions for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. These are two original paperbacks.

Incident at Hawk's Hill - A Newbery honor book the year it was published (in the 1970s) this is a story of a boy's survival with the help of an intrepid badger.

The Crossbreed - His mother was a housecat gone wild-a huge, tiger-striped cat who survived almost certain death at the hands of a man intent upon destroying her and her family.

His father was a bobcat-a proud, cunning creature of the Wisconsin countryside, whose tumultuous courtship with her resulted ultimately in his own violent death.

The Crossbreed himself was their largest offspring-the only one that strange litter the feral housecat bore to resemble his sire, even though his markings were those of his mother. His intelligence and ability and the combination of the better attributes of both breeds enabled him to survive in a world of enemies and t undergo an incredible odyssey of over two thousand miles in four years.