Saving Lives and Changing Hearts: Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centers
Enraptured with raptors? Love lions? Protective
of pelicans? Saving Lives and Changing Hearts: Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centers has something for everyone. Having exposed the cruel treatment of animals in zoos and the entertainment industry in my two previous books, I now show a more positive side of the human-animal relationship: animal sanctuaries and rescue centers. From a donkey sanctuary in Canada to a bear rescue centre in China, Saving Lives and Changing Hearts examines numerous efforts around the world to rescue and care for animals in need.
No Shelter Here, Making The World A Kinder Place for Dogs
-2013/2014 Hackmatack Award Nominee
-2013 OLA (Ontario Library Association) Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award Nominee
-2011 OLA Best Bets for Children and Young Adults – Junior Non-Fiction
-WPL (Winnipeg Public Library) New Children’s Books – Sizzling Staff Selections 2011
Dogs have been loyal companions to humans for thousands of years. We cherish them, groom them as show dogs and depend on them as working partners. But today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished. And millions of other dogs are used in scientific research, for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions.
In No Shelter Here I explore the world of homeless, free ranging, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face. But more importantly, I focus on people I call the “dog champions” — those individuals, small groups and professional organizations around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Enhanced with photos, informational sidebars and inspiring good-news stories, I hope No Shelter Here galvanizes young readers to become Dog Champions in their own communities.
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Skipping Stones Honor Award 2011
When you see animals performing on a stage, on television, in a movie, or at your school, do you ever wonder what their lives are like when they are not in front of an audience? In On Parade, The Hidden World of Animals in Entertainment I provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the backstage lives of animals in the entertainment industry. As I did in my first book, Wild Animals in Captivity, I examine troublesome issues, including animal training practices, their living conditions, and their lives after the curtain comes down.
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Wild Animals in Captivity
-School Library Journal’s Best Books 2008
-Pennsylvania School Librarians Association YA Top Forty 2008
-2009 Silver Birch Nominee
A large family of elephants ambles all day along a well-remembered route across the hot African savanna. Halfway around the world in a zoo in Alaska, a single female elephant paces back and forth in her cramped, concrete pen. During the arctic winter, she lives alone in a dark barn.
As she plods great distances across the ice in the Canadian Arctic, a polar bear continually sniffs the wind, closing in on a ringed seal. In a zoo in Jakarta, another polar bear lies motionless on the concrete floor of her enclosure, panting in the tropical heat. Her fur has turned green from the algae growing inside her hollow guard hairs.
These scenes are at the heart of Wild Animals in Captivity -a book that focuses on wild animals living in captivity around the world. “Captive animals become stressed when they try to act naturally, but can’t. In many zoos, you’ll see them pacing, weaving, or sitting motionless. This is the animal’s way of telling us that it’s bored and unhappy. Wild animals need a rich and varied environment-things to do, space to roam, social groups, families to care for.”
This is an eye-opening look at the lives of captive wild animals-at bad zoos, good zoos, and the best wild animal sanctuaries.
