Introduction

Chapter One  What is an Animal Sanctuary?

Chapter Two   Every Day Is Donkey Day

Chapter Three  A Home For Little Pig and Charlie

Chapter Four  Pachyderm Paradise

Chapter Five  Changing The Cages Of Cruelty

Chapter Six  Unshackling The Dolo Lion

Chapter Seven  From Science To Sanctuary

Chapter Eight   A Journey To Maars

Chapter Nine  Warm Hearts And Cold Blood

Chapter Ten  Pelicans In Peril

Chapter Eleven   Phony Sanctuaries? When a Sanctuary Isn't a Sanctuary

Chapter Twelve   Building Blocks: More Than Just a Cage

Chapter Thirteen   Become a Sanctuary and Rescue Centre Hero

Selected Sanctuaries and Organizations

Glossary

Praise for Saving Lives and Changing Hearts: Animal Sanctuaries and Rescue Centres

Praise forOn Parade: The Hidden World of Animals in Entertainment and Wild Animals in Captivity

Index

"Saving Lives & Changing Hearts is well-illustrated with photographs, many taken by Laidlaw and others by those who run the sanctuaries. The layout is made interesting with a variety of type styles, colors and background patterns all of which add eye-appeal. . . The book will be best used by parents and children together to facilitate discussion. Such activity would address its purpose of enhancing understanding of the need, as the title suggests, to 'save lives and change hearts."
Highly Recommended.
-- CM Magazine

"Saving Lives and Changing Hearts tells hopeful stories of humans from around the world stepping up to rescue animals in bad situations and to give them better lives. This heartening book describes 'real sanctuaries,' then highlights successful organizations.
"Some basic principles of real sanctuaries are that the physical, psychological and social needs of animals are the highest priority. There is no commercial trade or breeding of animals. Real sanctuaries also play a role in helping solve the problems that create the need for sanctuaries in the first place and educating the public.
"Among the sanctuaries featured are touching stories about donkeys, elephants, chimpanzees, pigs in Canada, elephants and rhinos in Kenya, bears and raptors in China, lions in Ethiopia, and turtles and pelicans in the United States.
"Saving Lives and Changing Hearts was strongly praised by all of the reviewers for the Skipping Stones Award because it does a good job of covering an important subject. The book promotes respect for and partnership with animals—an important message for all humans"
— Jury of the Skipping Stones Book Awards

2013 Information Book Award nominee Long List

On Resource Links' Best of 2013 list

Forest of Reading's Silver Birch - Non-Fiction 2014 nominee

2014 Rocky Mountain Book Award finalist

On CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens list 2013

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