Animal Rescue Friends

Bell, Maddie, and the whole ARF crew are back with a brand-new collection of stories for animal lovers in Book 4 of this popular series!When ARF is flooded with requests for pet-care advice, the kids come up with a great idea to reach lots of people at once: They’ll start an animal-care podcast! But when the hard work of creating a podcast leads to lots of new and exciting opportunities outside the rescue, the gang finds itself pulled in different directions. The kids tackle big changes—to their friendships, to themselves, and even to ARF itself—in these stories about friendship, responsibility, and cooperation.

Jana Tropper MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist at a midwestern public elementary school. When she’s not writing, she reads, plays video games, and serves as the director of Literacy for Reading with Pictures, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting comics in education. She lives with her husband, Josh, and their own two rescue dogs, Ripley and Newt.Katie Longua is an Illustrator and designer with a passion for comics fashion and design.Chelsea Trousdale is a Character Designer and illustrator based in Salt Lake City Utah were she lives her husband and two cats. She is passionate about character design and storytelling and creating content that is engaging and inspiring. She has created artwork for clients including Waterford Upstart, The Society of Visual Storytelling, Epic!, and Atomic Cartoons.ANJU Abraham is an Indian illustrator and animation designer. She’s from the lush green land of Kerala, grew up in the island of Bahrain, skated the streets of New York and survived the freezing Himalayas. When she’s not out on an adventure, she’s doodling, devouring towers of chocolates and befriending all creatures.Whitney Cogar is a comic colorist and illustrator from Savannah, GA. She contributed colors to the two-time Eisner Award-winning Giant Days (Boom! Studios), the Ringo! Award-winning The O.Z., the Steven Universe comic series (Boom! Studios), and Lucy Knisley's Peapod Farm series (Random House). She enjoys building punchy, rich environments in her work and designing enamel pins.