Anteater Adventure written by Kama Einhorn, reviewed by Debra Gantz

Summary:  This series of books focuses on ways some amazing humans learn about the animals they love in order to rescue, rehabilitate, and release them to their best fit environment. In Belize, Ella Baron has made it her life work to help injured anteaters to recover from injuries and return to their native habitat in the jungles. In order to achieve this lofty goal, Ella had to learn about all that anteater's eat, do, and need in their habitat and recreate it on her property. In stages and with the guidance of veterinarians and volunteers Ella accomplishes these goals. There is just enough time in the book to explain the process of rescue and rehab and the thinking behind when to encourage the animals to live wild, again, after their recovery. This very readable book allows readers to "live" as a rehabber and consider all the obstacles to helping wild animals in a rescue environment. (Most of the injuries are due to visitors to the rainforest and those who use the rainforest for human gain without considering the animals that live there or by natural disasters.)

Straight Talk for Librarians:  Nonfiction comes in so many forms and this is a unique look at the animal rescue world in a novel-like format. I believe students will find this interesting as they learn about anteaters and the process of rescue, recovery, rehabilitation, and release for this particular wild animal.