This collection of animal heroes is a great one for the younger set, although adults will find it interesting, too. The author writes in an engaging manner, and though it is nonfiction since all the accounts are true, he dramatizes the stories and adds dialogue, which is noted in the prologue, and this makes them more entertaining to his readers. Some of these animals are domesticated, but several are wild, which is really amazing. ( )

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I have to admit this was an amazing book. Sometimes these "animal heroes" type of books bore me because often they just repeat the same few stories over and over. But these weren't just stories about pet dogs who saved their master from choking, or a cat who alerted neighbors when a robbery was taking place (those are two examples I've found in MANY other books on this subject)... No, these were ones I've never heard of, and they weren't just the usual family pets. People say pets become a part of the family and automatically protect "their" herd/pack/etc, but some of the stories in this book were about WILD animals who instinctively saved complete strangers. Some of these stories sent shivers down my spine they were so interesting. ( )