Cool Careers for Girls with Animals

Cool Careers for Girls

by Ceel Pasternak

How to be cool now AND when you grow Explore a career in animals!Animals play a major role in the lives of many people. Not only are they treasured companions, they also provide entertainment, exercise, and the solution to health problems faced by many people.Do you like playing with animals? Do you like learning more about animals - taking care of them or spending time with them?Can you imagine yourself one day seeking a challenging, rewarding job that involves animals? You may be a perfect candidate for a career with animals! This book features a variety of jobs that involve animals, from veterinarian and zoologist to pet sitter and wildlife manager. Come explore the backgrounds of the women within these fields and more!You'll also get a sneak peek into their real lives and how their careers affect their families, as well as the personality traits and physical and mental abilities needed to do these jobs. This book joins the "Cool Careers for Girls" series, encouraging career exploration and broadening girls' career horizons. It shows girls what it takes to succeed by providing easy-to-read information about careers that many kids may not have not considered because they didn't know about them. They learn from women who are active in today's workplace, women who know what it takes today to get the job.Each book a personality checklist for the job, lists of books to read, salary information, supportive organizations to contact for scholarships, mentoring or apprenticeship and internship programs

Genres: Animals, Nonfiction

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 1999

Reviews

[Peacegal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Animal-oriented careers are explored in this book aimed at the tween girl set. A variety of women representing different occupations are profiled. Depending upon one’s point of view, the result can be characterized as a mixed bag.

The book is illustrated in a purplish-pink color scheme that renders the tinted photos unclear. And then there’s the public domain clipart. Lots and lots of clipart. Which sometimes gets the authors into trouble, such as when they use a stock photo of a leopard to illustrate text about cheetahs.

Although Cool Careers has been recommended and sold by the ASPCA, the values espoused can be somewhat murky. Readers coming from viewpoint that animals have inherent worth can probably get a heads-up with this line from the summary: Not only are [animals] treasured companions, they also provide entertainment, exercise, and the solution to health problems faced by many people. Indeed, while some of the “cool careers” are about helping animals or studying them in their natural habitats, others depend upon the captivity or even deaths of animals. Chapters which may cause the most concern are the exotic animal trainer (for movie and TV sets), marine mammal trainer (of captive dolphins for aquarium shows), and ostrich farmer (for meat and hides).

The worst chapter, from my point of view, highlighted the ostrich farmer, who raises the exotic birds to be slaughtered for meat and leather “for purses, boots, belts, and hats.” The farmer of course distances herself from the animals, dividing them into categories of family pets and food: “I don’t allow myself to be affected or get close to the birds that are going to be sold,” the text quotes. A section headed “Ostriches are Dangerous” explains that the birds must be herded into separate pens when their eggs are taken away from them, as they will try to defend their young, like any animal.

The entire chapter is quite sad, especially when one considers what these animals endure at processing plants in the name of the latest trendy meat fad. We learn from the text that an ostrich’s natural lifespan can reach up to 75 years, but farmed ostriches are slaughtered as 10-to-12-month-olds. Paging Carol Adams: Can empowerment be gained through exploitation? In addition, there is much repetitive talk of ostrich meat as “healthy” and “delicious”.

Careers profiled in the book are Small Animal Vet, Pet Sitter, Horse Farm Owner, Bird Handler [zookeeper], Wildlife manager, Exotic Animal Trainer, Assistance Dog Trainer, Herpetologist, Marine Mammal Curator, and Ostrich Farmer.

You may wish to recommend Careers With Animals: The Humane Society of the United States and Willow Ann Sirch in addition to or instead of this title.

[Andre · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book sounds as though it was written by a 7 year old boy from japan who made a book n English for science class. It’s execution was butchered, the plot was messed up, the wording was weak and, all around it was a bad book. The careers were very basic, you might as well looked it up online. I wouldn’t waste a dime on this book because there is way more info you can learn in 10 minutes by looking online then in the whole book.

[Damian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think this book is pretty good. I like how it shows a timeline demonstrating important events of theses women’s lives. I’m glad that this book give a ton of information like how much the pay is etc., to show you if the career will sustain your needs financially. Overall this book is informative on the careers the women chose.

[Ice 9 · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Cool Careers for Girls with Animals" by Ceel Pasternak and Linda Thornburg is a book containing biographers of women who work with animals. For my full review go to https://letterstocassiandotherfolks.b...

[Felix · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a horrible book!

[Heidi Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this for my students who might be interested in careers with animals to give them some insights into the range of possibilities: it’s not just vet and animal trainer.

[Ruby · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book for my daughter to read as part of a 4-H project, but found that I was intrigued as well. I like how the authors covered jobs that may not even be considered by people such as an ostrich farmer or a trainer of service animals. It also covers some of the ways a girl can prepare for these fields and see if they are for them before entering college. While it’s not a complete list, it is a great start and is written in a manner that appeals to younger people. It also has small snippets of information about topics such as the work of Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey, which may interest children enough to make them want to learn even more. I would definitely recommend this book for parents of pre-teen or teenage girls who love animals and want a career working with them.

[Gabrielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked how the author made these jobs sound apealing I've always thought of working with animals so this kind of helped me organize my preferred jobs that I want but there were a lot of bizarre jobs and there were a lot of unnecessary information like the personal life of a veterinarian another thing I liked was the checklist of the personality traits you need to have for each job that was helpful overall do I recommend this if you potentially want to work with animals yea I would but I don't think you could ind a better more informative one

[Lorene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Came across this quite by accident (there are no accidents!)in a thrift store recently. This one was targeted to careers with animals, so I picked it up for my niece who's just starting out in the field. It turns out there's an entire series covering many fields. If the others are as good as this one, I'd recommend them for the girls and young women in your lives who may need some outside guidance on what's available for their career paths - or maybe we need these tools ourselves!

[Jaguar · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Cool Careers for Girls with Animals (Cool Careers for Girls)" by Ceel Pasternak is a book for girls (obviously) that talks about many different woman, and their animal career, how they got there, and what they do. The reason I give this book only 3 stars is because this book didn't seem to be the book for me. None of the jobs except one peaked my interest.

2015-Summer-Reading-Review

[Syd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for jobs of deciding what job you want.

[Cassie · Rating 5 out of 5]

total animal lover book

[Hannah Klinker · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really helpful in helping me decide what I want to do when I grow up. I haven't quite decided, but it's pointed me in the right direction.

[Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

The last one, Ostrich farmer, is sooooooooooo uncool. Its raising them for the slaughter house!! ITS MEAN!!!

[Keleigh]

I like this book because it talks about real life people who had careers with animals.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book.