Saving Lives and Changing Hearts: Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centers
No. of pages 64
Published: 2012
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Skipping Stones Honor Award book, 2014
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Enraptured with raptors? Love lions? Protective of pelicans? Rob Laidlaw's latest has something for everyone. Having exposed the cruel treatment of animals in zoos and the entertainment industry with his previous two books, Rob Laidlaw sets out in Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centres to show a more positive side of the human-animal relationship: animal sanctuaries. From a donkey sanctuary in Canada to a bear rescue centre in China, this book examines numerous efforts around the world to rescue and care for animals in need.
This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.
There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd .
Rob Laidlaw is a Chartered Biologist and founder of Zoocheck Canada, a wildlife protection organization. His book Wild Animals in Captivity was a finalist for the OLA Silver Birch Award, and On Parade won the 2011 Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book Award as well as a Skipping Stones Honor Award. Rob has spent nearly 30 years campaigning to protect animals in captivity and in the wild.