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Animal Companions Your Friends Teachers Guides
Author: Diane Pomerance

Children and animals share a deep emotional, powerful and meaningful bond. Animals, especially beloved pets, become playmates, study partners, work partners and ultimately, friends. From their relationships with pets and other animals, children experience comfort, compassion, patience, mutual respect and feelings of interconnectedness with the w... more »orld around them. In her new colorfully and beautifully illustrated book, Animal Companions: Your Friends, Teachers & Guides certified Grief Recovery Specialist Diane Pomerance Ph.D. offers inspiring insights of the effects of child-animal bonds while re-enforcing to children the uplifting nature of the cycle of life. Animal Companions: Your Friends, Teachers & Guides affirms the importance of people-animal relationships while helping children to identify and express their strong feelings of shared bonds with their animal friends such as companionship, trust, acceptance, understanding and devotion. Dr. Pomerance guides children through the realization of these feelings and the process of creating and sustaining a relationship with a pet and how to cope with the knowledge that the much-loved pet will eventually pass on by emphasizing time spent together should be treated as a gift and a privilege. Creatively illustrated by artist Vanessa Meier and filled with quotes chosen to emphasize to children the important bonds of love and loyalty between themselves and pets, Dr. Pomerance has created an insightful book that brings to light both the joy of animal ownership and the heartache felt when an animal companion dies. Animal companionship teaches children many important lessons concerning compassion and the responsibility people have to provide for and protect animals. Children learn the breadth of human emotion, from joy and sorrow, success and failure, to peace and understanding through their relationship with animals. In a moving, considerate and understanding voice, Animal Companions: Your Friends, Teachers & Guides encourages children to identify their feelings of connectedness with animals by fostering relationships with animals and focusing on "living in the moment" by enjoying each day with their pet and remembering the most important gift of life is love. A portion of the proceeds from sales of Animal Companions: Your Friends, Teachers & Guides will be donated to the SPCA of Texas, where Pomerance heads the SPCA's Pet Grief Counseling Program and support group that meets monthly.

ISBN-13: 9780970850027
ISBN-10: 0970850026
Publication Date: 4/8/2003
Pages: 64
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Polaire Pubns
Book Type: Paperback
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