memories of life with kinder family, however. "I can remember my father in his nightshirt, digging for worms for the baby robin in the bathroom. That's the kind of household it was; I had woodchucks in the bathroom, cats, squirrels, chipmunks", McNulty once said. Towards the end of her life, she wrote a weekly column for The Providence Journal on a local animal shelter run by the Animal Welfare League. Her mother had founded the Animal Welfare League in southern Rhode Island. McNulty had long been known for taking in stray animals at her farm. She suffered a stroke in 2004. She died at her farm in Wakefield, Rhode Island. McNulty's last book was illustrated by Steven Kellogg and published by Scholastic Books in 2005, If You Decide to Go to the Moon—a picture book written in the second person. Next year (after McNulty's death) it won a major "year's best" children's literary award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. Selected works How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World Dancing with Manatees The Burning Bed ''The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty Peeping in the Shell: A Whooping Crane Is Hatched Arty The Smarty Why Must They Die? The strange case of the prairie dog and the black-footed ferret Whales: Their Life in the Sea Listening to Whales Sing How Whales Walked into the Sea The Elephant Who Couldn't Forget Endangered Animals The Great Whales Hurricane If Dogs Ruled the World The Lady and the Spider Mouse and Tim Orphan: The Story of a Baby Woodchuck Playing With Dolphins Red Wolves The Silly Story of a Flea and His Dog A Snake in the House With Love from Koko Woodchuck If You Decide to Go to the Moon, illustrated by Steven Kellogg (Scholastic, 2005) References External links Photograph of Faith McNulty in 2003 1918 births 2005 deaths American children's writers Children's non-fiction writers American nature writers People of the United States Office of War Information American women civilians in World War II