Unfortunately, despite directions not to shoot the white deer, it was mistakenly killed in a 2015 herd cull at the park.

Children in the Woods includes photos of the same deer, but taken when it was a fawn. Photos of this deer were used in a A Magic al Winter, Sams’ first book about a white deer, and in its companion board book A Winter’s Gift. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find a white deer,” Sams said. When the white deer first appeared in Sams’ yard, he was delighted and amazed. In 2014 a white deer lived in the Milford and Kensington areas and was a favorite photo subject of Sams and park visitors. Sams and Stoick live near Milford, Michigan and close to Kensington Metropark, which is about 40 miles northwest of Detroit. This book is a treasure of photos for both adults and children, but the story behind the book is even more fascinating. Photographer and author Carl Sams and his wife Jean Stoick have come out with a new book, Children in the Woods-a companion book to Stranger in the Woods and the third of their very popular children’s books to feature a white deer.Ĭhildren in the Woods is about two sets of children: the two-legged kind (a boy and girl) who start a hike of exploration and discovery in a big woods, and the four-legged kind (a couple of fawns-one brown and one white), which they encounter on their walk.īut who is discovering whom? It’s the humans who begin the exploration, but by the end of the book, it is the fawns who are venturing out to discover a world that happens to include two human children.

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