Animal Helpers: Wildlife Rehabilitators (Arbordale Collection)

Very few words to go with pictures. Not worth the cost.

As the Education Coordinator for Friends of Texas Wildlife, I often give presentations to elementary school children. Reading this book will be a great way to start my talks. The information is clear and correct and not too technical for young children. The questions at the end will be great discussion starters.

Wonderful and creative writer!

What are experts who care for sick, hurt, or orphaned wild animals called? With the help of Victoria Campbell of the Wild Things Sanctuary in New York, Kim Johnson of the Drift Inn Wildlife Sanctuary in Texas, Miriam Moyer and Mary Birney of the White Flicker Wild Bird Rehabilitation Clinic of Pennsylvania, Kathy Woods of the Phoenix Wildlife Center in Maryland, and Randy Loftus of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Chesapeake Bay Field Office, author Jennifer Keats Curtis takes the reader on a "behind the scenes" tour of these four different centers where wildlife rehabilitators nurse wild animals back to health and release them into the wild if they can. Like people, animals get sick or hurt. You take your pet to the veterinarian, but what happens when wild animals are injured, ill, or orphaned? Full-paged color photographs accompany the simple text which explains how wildlife rehabilitators rescue animals that have been injured or trapped, make safe shelters for them, care for them, feed them, give them medicine, even do surgery on them when necessary, then release them back into the wild whenever possible, and also teach people the best way to help wild animals in need. The book includes four pages of "For Creative Minds" learning activities, with more free activities online at the publisher's website. Kids love to read about and look at pictures of animals. They can surely benefit from the information in Animal Helpers: Wildlife Rehabilitators. Remember that wild animals aren't pets but require specialized treatment. Maybe someday you might even want to become a wildlife rehabilitator!

My Review: When wildlife animals become orphaned and injured, it is the job of the rehabilitators to care for them. In this book the photographic images will show how they care, feed and nurse them back to health. They use a special milk to feed young mammals like raccoon and use beak like tweezers to feed some birds. The rehabilitators also return animals back to their native environments.The last few pages of the book compare and contrast rehabilitators and veterinarians, tell if animals are orphaned or just left alone? Take part in the teaching activities on questions and answers, interactive quizzes and more.FTC Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from Sylvan Dell Publishing in exchange for a fair and honest review. I was not monetarily compensated for my opinion in any way.