We all want to feel safe, loved, protected, supported, encouraged?we want to feel seen and heard. Don't animals deserve the same thing?If the idea of communicating with animals is new to you, the soul-stirring stories in this book will open your heart and mind to this fascinating world.In a series of short stories about the many animals that have touched her life, Sherri takes us back to the moment she realizes she has an amazing ability to communicate with animals. She lovingly takes the reader on a journey of how each animal has healed and nurtured her while she does the same for them.Sherri shares her experiences?sometimes in a time of emotional crisis, or when she is reminded of times when she was deprived by those from whom she deserved love and care. She discovers that she receives generous unconditional love instead from her soul family, the animals with whom she develops deep connections. She describes the magical feeling of touching the emotions and thoughts of the animals that surround us all-from the household pets she works with daily to the extraordinary moment of communicating with an injured wild raptor.Are you listening to the animals around you?

We all want to feel safe, loved, protected, supported, encouraged...we want to feel seen and heard. Don't animals deserve the same thing? If the idea of communicating with animals is new to you, the soul-stirring stories in this book will open your heart and mind to this fascinating world. In a series of short stories about the many animals that have touched her life, Sherri takes us back to the moment she realizes she has an amazing ability to communicate with animals. She lovingly takes the reader on a journey of how each animal has healed and nurtured her while she does the same for them. Sherri shares her experiences...sometimes in a time of emotional crisis, or when she is reminded of times when she was deprived by those from whom she deserved love and care. She discovers that she receives generous unconditional love instead from her soul family, the animals with whom she develops deep connections. She describes the magical feeling of touching the emotions and thoughts of the animals that surround us all-from the household pets she works with daily to the extraordinary moment of communicating with an injured wild raptor. Are you listening to the animals around you? 

Come along on a rhyming tour through the amazing animal kingdom—from mammals to millipedes and everything in between—with this engaging picture book about how all creatures are connected! There are so many wild and wonderful animals in our world. Some have fur, some have feathers, some have fins, but all are connected. This fact-filled rhyming exploration of the diversity of the animal kingdom celebrates mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and more! It’s a perfect match for budding naturalists and animal enthusiasts everywhere.

A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through fairy-tale history. Some marvelous animal characters are deeply inscribed in current popular culture—the beast redeemed by beauty, the wolf in pursuit of little girls and little pigs, the frog prince released from enchantment by a young princess. But like the adventures of many fairy-tale heroes, a curious reader’s exploration in the genre can yield surprises, challenges, and unexpected rewards. Feathers, Paws, Fins, and Claws: Fairy-Tale Beasts presents lesser-known tales featuring animals both wild and gentle who appear in imaginative landscapes and enjoy a host of surprising talents. With striking original illustrations by artist Lina Kusaite and helpful introductions by fairy-tale scholars Jennifer Schacker and Christine A. Jones, the offbeat, haunting stories in this collection are rich and surprisingly relevant, demanding creative reading by audiences aged young adult and up. Schacker and Jones choose stories that represent several centuries and cultural perspectives on how animals think and move. In these ten stories, rats are just as seductive as Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf; snakes find human mates; and dancing sheep and well-mannered bears blur the line between human and beast. Stories range in form from literary ballads to tales long enough to be considered short stories, and all are presented as closely as possible to their original print versions, reflecting the use of historical spelling and punctuation. Beasts move between typical animal behavior (a bird seeking to spread its wings and fly or a clever cat artfully catching its prey) and acts that seem much more human than beastly (three fastidious bears keeping a tidy home together or a snake inviting itself to the dinner table). Kusaite’s full-color artwork rounds out this collection, drawing imaginatively on a wide range of visual traditions—from Inuit design to the work of the British Arts and Crafts movement. Together with the short introductions to the tales themselves, the illustrations invite readers to rediscover the fascinating world of animal fairy tales. All readers interested in storytelling, fairy-tale history, and translation will treasure this beautiful collection.