South Dakota’s pheasant opener is this weekend (10/19/2013). 

  Visit www.sdshspress.com to purchase the Mystery of the Pheasants, byauthors Mark Meierhenry and David Volk.

  In the Mystery of Pheasants, Max and Hannah are about to go on their first pheasant hunt. They have taken their safety course, and they can’t wait to get out into the field. But there is much they don’t know about the Chinese ring-necked pheasant, and the twins’ grandfather has plenty to teach them before they load their shotguns for the first time.

Appropriate for young readers from first- to third-grade, Pheasants is a great present for your young hunter or hunter-to-be.  

"It’s a sweet story… . Meierhenry and Volk weave important anecdotes about our immigrant birds. Readers learn how pheasants were imported from China and first released on a Spink County farm in 1909, and how annual fall hunts have become nearly as important as Thanksgiving and Christmas for some families."—South Dakota Magazine