Safe Passage is the first children’s book by author Frances Figart and the debut book-length work by illustrator Emma DuFort.

Title offers a dramatic narrative and exceptional educational content with additional nonfiction section.

Provides accessible educational lessons about animal habitat requirements, behavior, migration patterns, and roadway ecology problems and solutions developed in coordination with input from both international and local experts at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Title’s roadway wildlife ecology message addresses a global issue with application and appeal to diverse markets across US and abroad.

Title includes a song with musical notation and a prompt to use accompanying online educational teaching materials.

This title is closely connected to Safe Passage: The I-40 Pigeon River Gorge Wildlife Crossing Project, the focus of a major new public education and infrastructure development campaign in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee.