Llewellyn's Little Book of Spirit Animals

Llewellyn's Little Books #4

by Melissa Alvarez

Explore the world of spirit animals and how they can guide you to live your best life. Llewellyn's Little Book of Spirit Animals is the perfect, pocket-sized tool to connect you to your spirit animals, whether they are lifelong companions or sent to deliver a single, specific message. Spirit animals can help you feel more balanced, peaceful, and confident in everything that you do. This convenient, hardcover reference book features more than 200 entries for wild, domestic, and mythical animals, allowing you to understand what each one symbolizes, how it may appear to you, and how to best use its guidance and energy. You'll also find tips throughout the book and information on color and element meanings for each animal.

Genres: Witchcraft, Spirituality, Reference, Occult, Nonfiction, Animals

288 pages, Hardcover

Published February 8, 2018

About the author

Melissa Alvarez is a bestselling, award-winning author who has written twenty plus books and nearly five hundred articles on self-help, spirituality, wellness and other nonfiction topics. As a professional intuitive coach, energy worker, spiritual advisor, medium, and animal communicator with over thirty years of experience, Melissa has helped thousands of people bring clarity, joy, and balance into their lives. Melissa teaches others how to connect with their own intuitive nature and how to work with frequency for spiritual growth. She has appeared on numerous radio shows as both a guest and host. Melissa is published by Llewellyn Worldwide, who is "is the country's oldest and largest independent publisher of books on the New Age, Mind Body Spirit, alternative spirituality, esoteric literature, and the paranormal, celebrating more than a century of publishing books and related products." Melissa's Llewellyn books are 365 Ways to Raise Your Frequency, Your Psychic Self,  Believe and Receive, Animal Frequency,  Llewellyn’s Little Book of Spirit Animals, The Simplicity of Cozy, and Earth Frequency. Melissa’s books have been translated into Romanian, Russian, Chinese, French, Czech and Spanish. She is also published through her company, Adrema Press. She lives in South Florida with her family, dogs, and horses. Visit her online at www.MelissaA.com for a complete list of her books. Her latest release is Raise Your Frequency Through Number Messages. 

Reviews

[Andy N · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a nice, simple book that goes in depth into spirit animals. It offers helpful advice for those that want to discover more about the meaning of spirit animals and about their guidance, but also to authors that want to include these spirits in their work.

Melissa Alvarez takes her time presenting the different fields of spirit animals. She starts by presenting the different types of animals, an extensive characterization of each and the messages and lessons that each specific spirit includes. Alvarez also describes different rituals to know your spirit guide; and how to communicate with it. The author manages to cover the most important fields and details in this condensed guide without leaving out any crucial information.
The style of writing is simple and easy to follow. The thematic is presented in a simple way and the author’s message is clearly presented and developed between the pages.

It’s the perfect reference for those interested in exploring the world of spiritual animal guides.

Thank you NetGalley, Llewellyn Publications and the author for allowing me to read and review a digital copy of this book.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have many Native American friends who believe in, and have animal guides so I am somewhat familiar with the topic. But never having delved into the subject with much depth I think I needed more details than this book provides. But, having said that, the author states very clearly this book is a bit of a condensed version of a more in depth book on animal communication. So, while I am not sure it really provided me with a lot of insight, I did think the subject matter was presented really easily and clearly and that this is a really great reference guide for those who know a lot about this or just want to use it as a refresher and reference. I was provided a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got to read through this little gem of a reference book "Llewellyn's Little Book of Spirit Animals" by Melissa Alvarez. This book is sort of of a pocket guide to spirit animals. The beginning has a really nice overview on what a spirit animal is and different ways you can utilize them in you everyday life and practice. Also, Alvarez points out that spirit animals may have a one time message or may be with you for extended periods of time, you have to pay attention to your surroundings.

The meat of the book is going over a large selection of animals and what they mean. She even gives information on "mythical" animals like dragons and unicorns (and even some more obscure animals from different cultures than westerners may be used to).

She had a book that goes into greater detail, and recommend that if you are really interested in the subject matter you may want to check it out, it is called, "Animal Frequency: Identify, Attune, and Connect to the Energy of Animals." I have not read this book, but if the writing is anything like "Llewellyn's Little Book of Spirit Animals" I think it would be a good read.

I received an e-copy of this book from NetGalley for my honest review.

[Audrey Stars in Her Eye · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't always believe in the new agey stuff, but I like to learn what people are saying. I also like to see what if any psychological implications are included. for this particular set up, I didn't seem to see any. I was also confused on how non existing animals could communicate with you. But if you truly believe and are into the ideas presented, it really is a neat little book. It's divided in three categories, one quick page on each animal. A hand dandy little reference.
I received an ARC from Netgalley; All opinions are my own.

[Carrie (The Butterfly Reader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book! I wish it had gone into a little more detail about how to connect with these animals, I feel like that was brushed over pretty fast but other than that I really enjoyed it. I loved the info that was given and that the element and color for each animal was listed too. That came in handy for someone like me whose just starting out.

This little book is easy to read and perfect to just toss into your purse all the go. It's got so much info for sure a small book. It even tells you how to honor spirit animals. I will be using it often! I can't wait to see what other books about spirit animals I can find. This is such a wonderful topic. Thanks to NetGalley for this title.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book to me is a condensed version of Spirit Animals. It does give you lots of information and a good understanding of what a spirit animal is, what their messages are, how to find out what your spirit animal is and topics like that. It is a very interesting read if you have ever been interested in Spirit animals. I do suggest if you want to fully understand more about Spirit Animals find a full book instead of the condensed version in this book. That being said it is still a great book.

I received this book from the Author or Publisher via Netgalley.com and chose to leave this review.

[lila]

I didn't like the way the author was presenting the information, I feel like this kind of thing doesn't always translate well to written format, it needs to be experienced in real life. and I also got bored

[Raven Wells · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great resource to have if you’re interested in spirit animals. This is definitely more of an as needed book, not a cover to cover read. If it’s something you’d use often, definitely get it.

[Stacy Tomaszewski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this as an advance readers’ copy. This is a fine book, but doesn’t really offer anything new. It would be a good book for beginner reference.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley and Llewellyn for the opportunity to read the Advance Reader. I enjoyed this book. This is one I would not recommend in an ebook though. I liked the format.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful little companion book about spirit animals. Meant as a pocketbook, it suits its purpose well and is a welcome addition to my bookshelf.

[C.J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great little pocket guide that is an introductory reference to a variety of animals both real and mythical.

[Nostalgia Reader]

A comprehensive guide to spirit animals, helpful for those who want to connect with their animal spirits and guides, as well as for authors who want to add animal symbolism to their works. I did skim read many of the entries, only reading the ones that seemed most relevant to me at the time, but every page has extensive characterization and lessons you can take from the animals (wild, domesticated, and mythical).

[NormaCenva]

I am so excited for this, I love Llewellyn!

[Luchia Houghton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved reading this book, I skimmed to some important animals and animals that I thought I'd seen often in the day and I really enjoyed learning about the symbolism. I guess it helps that I firmly believe in things such as spirit animals and crystals but regardless this book still makes for a very interesting read.

I like the idea it poses of uses the book for bibliomancy also (skipping to a page) - this would be much easier with a print copy of course but the idea of using the book in this way would make it something much easier to pick up.

In terms of the actual animals you can read about also - it covers everything from cats to unicorns! I think this really makes a difference as it means that there are just so many entries that you can relate to more often.

I think the only way that someone might not necessarily like this book is if they don't believe in the context, but even for a non-believer as stated it would be interesting to read for the symbolism alone!

Thank you to Llewellyn and NetGalley for my eARC!

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read the author's other book (the one she references at the beginning) but I'll have to check it out. It says "little" in the title but that might just be the physical size of the book (hard to tell when reading online) because there are a LOT of pages here, and a LOT of animals covered. I teach a process called SoulCollage and part of the process is identifying and working with several of our own Animal Companions. This book will be extraordinarily helpful to me as well as my workshop participants. It offers a thorough explanation of the various deeper meanings and messages from a wide variety of both wild and domestic animals.

[Ais · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this. It was pleasant, sweet and well thought out. We often laugh and joke about what our 'spirit animals' would be, but in reality animals have a deep connection to humans and the book accepts this head on. This was a lovely little book to dip in and out of!

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

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A holistic and spiritual way to connect with wild animals. However, the readers should remain that wild animal are dangerous or become dangerous by different life's triggers. It is important to be accompanied with a professional for real-life experience.