Booktalking "Daisy to the Rescue" by Jeff Campbell
A quarter horse saves a little girl by kicking an aggressive wild boar.
Dogs predict heart attacks, and they detect cancer.
A cat fetches help to save her injured guardian.
Bottle nose dolphins protect swimmers from great white sharks.
Gorillas in zoos protect injured kids.
A parrot saves a choking girl.
Lions protect a kidnapped and beaten girl.
A pit bull discourages a depressed war veteran from committing suicide.
An injured Pony of the Americas with a prosthetic leg chooses a career as a therapy pony.
The stories go on and on about animals that go out of their way to rescue sick and injured people. This book is inspirational.
Daisy to the Rescue: True Stories of Daring Dogs, Paramedic Parrots and Other Animal Heroes by Jeff Campbell, 2014
I love the sophisticated drawings of the animals who rescued people.
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