Keepers of the Wild: A True Story Told Through the Eyes of the Animals

by Doreen Ingram, Josh Green (Illustrator)

Overview

Elvis, a large maneless lion, is showing his defiance by not leaving his cage when he is called to entertain an audience. His master could use a whip, like others might, but instead allows Elvis to remain in his cage--this time. Elvis knows his boundary, but his painful stomach ache is keeping him from moving. Elvis and the other lions and tigers are trained to do stunning and spectacular tricks, but behind the scenes and the breathtaking stunts, these animals are victims of the entertainment business and suffer greatly. Elvis's "master," Jonathan, realizes the animals are really being tortured by living in cages twenty-two hours a day. Both of their lives change when Jonathan has a change of heart and decides to become a rescuer instead of an entertainer and creates a place that Elvis and other wild animals can call a good home with room to roam!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780991525232
Publisher:	Doreen Ingram
Publication date:	04/15/2017
Series:	My Sanctuary , #3
Edition description:	Revised with new cover and edited text
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Chapter 1 – A Life Forever Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2 – Showtime! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 3 – Change of Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 4 – A New Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 5 – One Step Closer to Freedom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 6 – King at Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

About Jonathan Kraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Editorial Reviews

"When I shot a documentary at Keepers of the Wilf for a television network, I could see with my own eyes how safe and loved the animals are. But what I couldn't know, until I read the book, was how the animals themselves see the world through their own eyes. If you want a glimpse of the lives of animals from their point of view rather than ours, you can't do better than Keepers of the Wild book.

Greg Dobbs, speaker, author, veteran television journalist.

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