Depicts the relationship between all living things as it tells of the ways in which twelve human beings are touched by the animal, fish, or bird that is an important part of their lives - (Baker & Taylor)
Twelve stories in which animals change people's lives for the better. - (Baker & Taylor)
Here are twelve deeply moving short stories from the perceptive pen of Cynthia Rylant. Each captures the moment when someone's life changes -- when an animal causes a human being to see things in a different way, and, perhaps, changes his life. - (Simon and Schuster)