![]() Their story has been featured on PBS and in three books Bowles has written about the Sanctuary's animal residents. Over the years, Melanie and Jim have intervened on behalf of over 300 downtrodden horses, many of them coming to the sanctuary to live out their lives in peace and dignity. Their facility grew to hundreds of acres in first Arkansas, and then North Carolina, where rescued animals were allowed to roam as natural herds. Unwanted, elderly, and abused horses became her purpose, and she and her husband Jim began Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary with one horse in need on five acres of land in rural Florida. When Melanie Sue Bowles stumbled across the quote, “The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose,” she loved it so much that it became the steadfast philosophy by which she has lived her entire adult life. CLICK HERE for more information about this FREE APP. If you are interested in purchasing the electronic version of this book please note: We have partnered with Glassboxx to bring you your favorite horse books in digital and audio formats, easily and securely. But saving the animals means risking the complete unraveling of her family as she exposes the long-buried truth about a tragic accident and a hurt like she's never known before. She knows she must find a way to keep them, or she will have betrayed the best friend she has ever had. While caring for the animals, Kip's happiness is overshadowed by a shocking discovery in a trunk in the family farm's hayloft-a faded photograph of her father as a boy that reveals secrets long kept.Ī court order to return the horses, and even worse, Kip's beloved Liberty Biscuit, to the owner who had starved and beaten them, throws Kip's world into turmoil. Kip is elated when her grandfather agrees to help her foster the donkey, who she names “Liberty Biscuit,” along with two emaciated horses removed by the local sheriff from the same home, as the cruelty case goes to court. When it is discovered the donkey fled an abusive owner, Kip's father finally relents, reluctantly allowing him to stay. Immediately smitten and compelled to protect him, she feeds him biscuits and takes him home. Hiding in the woods on the Fourth of July, Kip encounters a bedraggled donkey with one eye and a floppy ear. Why he dislikes them is a confounding mystery. Unfortunately, her father has an angry opposition to all animals-horses in particular. She longs for a pet to ease the loneliness. Katherine Pearl Baker-“Kip” for short-is the only child on her family's rural peach farm. Library Binding (December 23rd, 2003): $17.Does a family mystery stand in the way of saving Kip's best friend?.In addition to having illustrated all the Biscuit books, she is also the artist and author of He's Your Dog and Mouse Around. Pat Schories's engaging illustrations of the puppy Biscuit are modeled on her own dog. She lives in a book-filled home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Alyssa Satin Capucilli is the author of the first story about Tulip and Rex, Tulip Loves Rex, as well as the bestselling Biscuit books and many other beloved children's books.
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