Chicken Soup for the Soul: Humane Heroes, Volume II

by American Humane (contributor)

Laugh and learn as you read inspirational and educational stories about remarkable animals and the people who take care of them.  Chicken Soup for the Humane Heroes, Volume II is full of real-life stories that are appropriate for 7th graders and up to read on their own.  While teaching the value of humane conservation, children are introduced to some amazing animals – two orphaned bear cubs; a lost and blind sea lion; elephants who help doctors fight cancer, among others. Not only will children learn how these animals share and enrich our planet, they will also learn of the critically important work being done by humane heroes around the world that helps them survive.   

Genres: Animals

Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2017

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice collection of various stories about animal rescues or animals overcoming difficulties. In some cases the animals are in a zoo, but in others they are returned to the wild. It's a nice little collection. Enjoyable. Also includes animal and science facts.

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a part of a trilogy that looks into stories from various institutions participating in the American Humane Conservation Program, which is overseen by the national group American Humane.

As a result of this being an ongoing series, each volume shares with the other different volumes the same Foreword, an explanation on being Humane certified or available for their audits and a small glossary list with descriptive blurbs for the zoos and aquariums listed (even if those locations are not mentioned in the book you just read). There is furthermore the same addition Working To Ensure the Welfare of Animals as well as a list of addresses for the mentioned locations.

Each volume comes with twelve individual stories that include: stories of rescue, animal health interventions such as raising a cheetah cub with a dog, new animal care methods, animal-human therapy and scientific discoveries just to mention a few subjects. Readers are not only provided with information on the titular character but also with additional information about the background issues related to that story.

Each story comes with some included photographs of the events that form the story. But what makes these Kindle books different than others is at the end of each story is a link that allows readers to select the desired volume followed by a quick scroll down to select the chosen story to be able to access further photos as well as the ones included in the stories along with videos showcasing the animal of the story or something again related to the story.

Even with so much similarities, each volume is written for a different crowd - vol. 1 ~ elementary, vol. 2 ~ middle school and vol. 3 ~ high school.

All in all they were rather decent stories that showcase just how much is being done to help not just us but also our animal neighbors in their needs.

[Jamie Lerner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Animal stories complete me

I'm not really a chicken soup for the soul person But this one was free on amazon. So I though I'd give it a try. I really enjoyed all the stories of the animals. This book was a very easy read considering its for middle school age but I really did enjoy it. It was heart warming

[june · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative and interesting, suitable for animal lovers like me.

Also a little bit sad because this book contains struggling and thriving animals who are injured by bad people. Hopefully people around the world realize that we are not living alone, there are animals who sustain and maintain our earth.

[Leanna Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the book

I really loved the stories in your book ! They were very interesting to me I learned a lot about the animals !

[Marseydoats · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice to read something positive in these trying times.