Order Your Copy of Fur & Feather Stand Together!

When you order a copy of Fur & Feather, what you see above is a price that looks like a normal hardcover book. What’s different from a normal book, though, is that all proceeds raised from our books are donated to the three non-profits who helped guide and inspire us in our process: the International Indigenous Youth Council, Center for Biological Diversity, and Sunrise Movement.

You can learn more about these non-profits here!

While we hope it feels good to know that your purchase is supporting climate change advocacy and education, we also don’t want cost to be a barrier to anyone getting a copy. If our suggested price isn’t in your price range, drop us a line at david@furandfeathertogether.org, and we’ll figure something out!

You can also get or gift a free digital version of the book in exchange for two acts of kindness via our Kindness Challenge.

Give a Book and Give Back!

Here is an exact breakdown of where your money goes when you purchase our book:

Total Suggested Price = $14.95 + $5 Shipping (for US) = $19.95

Total Costs = $9.25

• Cost of Book Printing = $2.45

• Cost of Site Maintenance = $1.50

• Shipping Supplies = $1.50

• Handling = $1

• Postage = $2.80

Total Donation to Non-profits = $19.95 - $9.25 = $10.70

The Story

Fur & Feather Stand Together tells the tale of two unlikely friends—a puffin and a polar bear—joining together with their community to save the ice that is melting around them. But what starts as a small effort to solve this local problem grows, through stories and small acts of compassion, into a global movement of animals and humans, all standing up with and for each other.

The Project

Across the planet, the effects of climate change are becoming clearer every day. While climate change may exist in the abstract for some of us, the harm wrought by climate inaction and environmental injustice has been clear for people of color and Indigenous peoples for a long time. Wherever you are in the world, it’s time to wake up, reach out, and get to work.

We created Fur & Feather to educate kids about the interconnectedness at the core of climate change—an interconnectedness that has only become more clear in these times we are living through. But just as our challenges and struggles are interconnected, so too are the solutions that we haven’t yet imagined.  

Our Goals

There’s already a lot out there on climate change. So why the story of a puffin and a polar bear?

Honestly, it felt like most of the books, movies, and resources we came across for kids either a) didn’t capture the overlapping issues of climate change in a way kids could understand, or b) were a touch too data heavy to inspire the five-year-olds in our lives. 

We wanted to create something that went beyond polar bears and CO2 charts and that would help kids (and their parents) to see how climate change touches us all.

We also felt it was important to feature a diverse array of people and animals in our illustrations, and in particular, to highlight how Indigenous youth and women of color are at the forefront of so many on the ground efforts to defend our communities and the earth from the impacts of climate change. 

As a white author and illustrator, we put a lot of thought and intention into our choice to feature a young Indigenous girl from Alaska as our main human character, and are grateful for those from the International Indigenous Youth Council who consulted with us to make sure we did so in a way that honored Indigenous traditions and perspectives. 

We are also deeply appreciative of the support and input we received from the climate science team at the Center for Biological Diversity, youth activists from the Sunrise Movement, and countless friends and family throughout this process. Thank you to all who helped make this story come to life!

Ready to get started? Check out some climate curriculum!