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Tom Chapin, award winning musician
Hear Emmy, Grammy and Peabody award-winning musician read you a true story about a real, live animal! story here


Plush Toys
To enhance your reading experience, we offer plush toys with several of our books.

Wolves In Yellowstone, plush toy

Tapes, CD's and DVD's
Hear Emmy, Grammy and Peabody award-winning musician, Tom Chapin read you a true story about a real, live animal!.



Tom Chapin, award winning musician
In these animal books, children can learn about endangered wolves and manatees, and about the special care of a rescued shelter dog or cat. Illustrated with gorgeous, full-color pictures, each storybook illustration shows pets and wildlife in their natural environment. Children’s picture books are often beautiful: our substantive children’s animal stories foster a generation of caretakers.



Series featuring real life pet stories and wildlife tales have dominated national television for years. Children’s animal books that teach humane treatment of all wildlife and pets could not be timelier, for they raise the spirit and lift the heart, while teaching relevant values. Written with humor and intelligence, our true animal storybooks will delight and entertain, teach and instill values, and will motivate reading.



 
   
Welcome to The Benefactory Inc.

True Animal Stories for Kids 3-6 & 6-9

The Benefactory’s four-fold mission is:
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 To motivate children to read
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 To foster environmental preservation and animal protection
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 To encourage children to be creative
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 To generate community linkages
A shelter adopted dog can have special training challenges. When Bentley, a bearded collie, and his owner Ms. Moody, fall in love with Blueberry at the shelter, they have to learn how to housetrain her, and how to stop the barking with humane love and kindness. This true animal story will warm your heart: your child will want to read this rhyming book again and again. By Randy Houk.
 Bentley and Blueberry
A shelter adopted bearded collie needs special training and love.
Caesar is adopted from a shelter, but turns out to have a problem common to all-white terriers ? he is stone deaf. But don?t worry ? the shelter manager falls in love with him, and adopts him herself. What methods can this resourceful and ingenious trainer use to sight-train a deaf dog? This true animal story reminds us that we are all special, and worth the effort it takes to bring out our best. By Loren Spoitta-DiMare, illustrated by Kara Lee.
Caesar On Deaf Ears
Can a deaf shelter puppy find a home? Can he be trained?
Read this whimsical and winning story to find out why Chessie, a Florida Manatee, wandered so far from home. Winner of the silver National Parenting Association award, this book is packed with detail about manatees. Chessie, used to warmer waters in Florida, really did swim all the way north to Pt Judith and back home to Florida again. But first he was ?rescued? by well-meaning environmentalists in the Chesepeake Bay. By Randy Houk, Illustrated by Paula Bartlett.

Chessie, The Travelin' Man
An endangered manatee, rescued in Chesapeake Bay, swims to RI.
Read this true animal storybook and learn what happens when a young grizzly, who is becoming all too used to hanging around near humans in Glacier National Park, is helicoptered to a wild part of the park. This storybook is packed with educational detail about wildlife and nature in the park. By Peggy Christian, Illustrated by Carol Cottone Kolthoff.   Chocolate, A Glacier Grizzly
A young grizzly, too close to humans, is helicoptered to wild terrain.
What on earth brought emerald green parrots to build these huge nests in Bridgeport, CT? Why would great horned owls steal one of their nests for a home in which to raise their young owlet, Hoo Doo? And can they all get along in peace? Read this true story about these amazing aniimals, and fall in love with parrots and owls. By Randy Houk.
Ruffle, Coo and Hoo Doo
Escaped parrots settle with great-horned owls in Bridgeport, CT.
This true animal storybook relates how endangered gray wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, after an absence of 65 years. In dramatic, haunting rhyme, your child will learn how one wolf from those returned to Yellowstone raised the first litter of wolf pups born there after such a long time without wolves. By Randy Houk.

Wolves In Yellowstone
In 1995, endangered gray wolves came back to Yellowstone Park.
An injured pig named Hope, raised in a factory farm, is tossed into a dumpster, but she is quickly rescued by folks from The Farm Sanctuary, an actual haven for cast-out animals of every kind, in upstate New York. In this true story, children will read how Hope falls for a spotted pig named Johnny, who refuses to leave her side. By Randy Houk. Hope: A Pig's Tale
A dumpstered pig is rescued by Farm Sanctuary.
How does a courageous cat survive months alone in a locked apartment? Don?t worry ? Jasmine will be rescued and placed with a loving family, before the story ends. Children love Jasmine?s true story of determination and hope. By Randy Houk.
Jasmine
An abandoned cat survives on birdseed and courage.
Did this boy heal the hawk, or did the hawk heal this boy? A troubled inner-city child, taken to live at the working farm for children, Green Chimneys, learns hope and develops self-esteem in this true story. By Randy Houk, Illustrated by Nancy Lane. Rico's Hawk
A troubled child rescues a wounded hawk. 
Why would a loggerhead turtle hatchling fall from the sky onto a windshield of a car? Named ?Freefall,? this hatchling was lucky enough to be taken to the Museum of Discovery and Science, where her broken shell heals, and she grows large enough to be released back into the sea. In this mystical, lyrical rhyming story, the ocean itself sings a magical and haunting song. By Lyn Littlefield Hoopes, illustrated by Ray Bartkus. Freefall
A loggerhead hatchling, snatched by a seagull, falls onto a car and is rehabilitate.
A young golden lab adjusts to the gradual onset of blindness, but could it be his other senses become even more acute? When a young girl screams for help, caught in a swirling riptide, Norman bounds into the ocean to save her. This true story tells of the innate value and potential of any pet ? even one with handicaps. By Loren Spoitta-DiMare, Illustrated by Kara Lee. Norman to the Rescue
How can a blind golden lab rescue a drowning child?
Emma was afraid of big dogs, until her new neighbor introduced her to gentle, utterly friendly Buster. When he gets lost, she is determined to find him in the immense park nearby. By Judith Lane, illustrated by Nancy Lane. Buster, Where are You?
Six year-old Emma helps rescue Buster when he gets lost.
In lyrical rhyme, award-winning author Lynn Hoopes tells the true story of the near-extinction of the endangered California Condor. Scientists captured the last remaining nine, bred them in captivity, and in 1997, successfully reintroduced some back into the wild in Arizona. Look for native American symbols woven into the artwork: the legend can be found on the glossary page. By Lyn Littlefield Hoopes, Illustrated by Peter Stone.


Condor Magic
Endangered condors return from the brink of extinction.

 

 


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A loggerhead hatchling, snatched by a seagull. Click below to read a few pages.




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About The Benefactory

We are The Benefactory, a publisher of children's books, audiotapes, plush toys and video cassettes. Children who are read to, learn to love reading, so we offer storytellings with renowned musician, Tom Chapin. All children love true stories about real living animals. We welcome feedback from families, teachers, librarians, storytelling mentors and volunteers, and especially, children.

 

 
True stories about real animals for kids are tough to find – children’s books packed with educational detail about pets and wildlife. Our animal stories foster humane treatment of all pets and wildlife in children 4-10, while delighting children, parents and teachers with a gripping, true story about animals. The Benefactory’s animal storybooks teach animal protection and environmental care, and foster responsible pet ownership. Parents and teachers want substance for their kids – books for kids that teach core values and motivate children to read. These true animal storybooks delight and teach, and children want to read these books about pets and wildlife again and again.
 
 
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Freefall; A sky-diving Sea Turtle A true animal story for children of all ages. Our books are availables at Bookworld.com