Tate's Wild Rescue

by Jenny Turnbull, Izzy Burton (Illustrator)

Overview

A sweet, funny picture book about an animal-loving girl who invites wild animals to live in her house and be her best friend--with mixed results! Back matter also offers ideas for children on how they can help both wild and companion animals!

Tate loves animals, but she worries about the ones who live in the wild—aren’t they cold? Hungry? Lonely?

She is determined to help and comes up with the perfect plan: she’ll offer one a better life and they will be best friends! To her surprise, none of the wild animals she invites to live with her are impressed with her offerings—Orca is not interested in the kiddie pool, and Tiger would rather hunt than settle for cookies. Maybe Tate will have to look a bit closer to home to find her pawsitively perfect match. 

Tate’s heartfelt hope to rescue a wild animal combined with the blunt hilarity of their responses makes this charming story perfect for anyone wild about animals!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593569092
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/18/2024
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	15 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jenny Turnbull is a children’s book author who lives by the sea in Los Angeles. She left a career in film and television to pursue her passion for writing and has never looked back. Tate’s Wild Rescue is Jenny’s debut picture book, honoring her love for animals. When not writing, she enjoys exploring the wild with her husband and her furry best friend, Enzo.

Izzy Burton is an award-winning director, artist, and writer working in publishing and animation. Beyond her picture books, she also makes short films and advertisements, and does design work for TV & film. She lives in Brighton, UK, with her rescue pup Twigs.

Editorial Reviews

"An appealing invitation to consider the nuances in there being 'no place like home.'" —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2024-03-23
Tate would love to have a wild animal in the house…but for some reason, they’re not interested in moving in.

Determined to “rescue” the creatures she loves, Tate—a small, brown-skinned child with big, soulful eyes—writes letters to a variety of animals, declaring, “I want to save you from the wild!” Discouragingly, the lion responds to her offer of a safe home, a bath, and free meals with a “Proud Pass,” while the orca turns up its nose at the idea of living in Tate’s kiddie pool (“Sometimes I swim forty miles a day”). The grizzly bear emphasizes that it needs a den far bigger than Tate could provide (“I’ll be 800 pounds in no time”). Though some readers may question whether the trash-picking raccoons depicted in the story are really living in the wild, the author’s point about forcing wildlife into unnatural habitats is well taken, as is her closing suggestion that supporting animal conservation and rescue organizations is a better way to go. As for Tate, readers will be happy to see her connect at last with the stray dog that’s been shadowing her from the beginning and quickly becomes the perfect recipient for the promised home, bath, and meals.

An appealing invitation to consider the nuances in there being “no place like home.” (ways to help animals, websites for animal rescue organizations, author’s note) (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews