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

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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.
Filled with illustrations, stories that appeal to young adventurous minds, and answers to their curiosities, “Catch a Crayfish” was tucked under her arms as she drifted off to sleep at bedtime. By breakfast the next morning, Nora had already gone around her family home looking for a magnet, a bottle cork, a plastic cup, and a bowl to make the homemade compass in the first chapter of the book….