Books in Animal Stories series

Learn about the lives of four endangered animals as you share their exciting and inspiring adventures. In ‘The Heart Of The Forest’, Budi, a young Sumatran orangutan, has a strange feeling that something terrible is going to happen to his rainforest home. He leaves his friends, and ventures deeper into the forest than he’s ever been before, on a quest to find a new place for the orangutans to live. During the course of his journey he meets many other rainforest animals … not all of whom are friendly. Will Budi succeed in his mission? What will he find waiting for him when he finally returns home? ‘Mother And Son’, tells the story of Darpan, a brave but reckless Bengal tiger. No longer a cub, Darpan is eager to prove himself to his fearsome parents. One night, the tigers encounter strange, talking apes deep in the jungle. The apes don’t seem dangerous, and the tigers are hungry … should they obey their instincts? In ‘Kabir The Hero’, a thoughtful young Indian elephant is on the brink of adulthood. Can he summon up the courage he needs to overcome a bully and help find a missing baby elephant? What is waiting for him in the deadly moonlit forest? ‘Search For A Sister’ is the story of Carrie the leatherback turtle, who travels thousands of miles on an epic migration from the warm Florida coast to the frozen Arctic north. She leaves with her sister, but returns alone. Will the two ever see each other again? Four amazing animals, four amazing stories.

Samson the Steller Sea Lion is the true story of my experiences training and caring for a dangerous marine mammal in the early 1970's at the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium (now, Mystic Aquarium). No one had much experience back then and we had no idea what we had gotten ourselves into. Here is a poignant look into the mind of one Aquarist and the tentative relationship between human and animal without the fluff. This is the way it was with all of the mistakes and successes.