Save $$$ and Help the ASPCA, Too

A roll of stickers, I mean, medallions seals, arrived in the mail this week. They came from the American Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and I must say — winning an ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award is the coolest. Now I can stick those oo la la shiny gold medallions seals (my publisher insists I call them medallions seals, not stickers!) on the covers of all my copies of Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound. And guess what? The medallions seals have texture to them, too – they feel great.

Books that win Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards are featured on the ASPCA website. I love how they say I am “a writer who travels a lot and is blind.” True!

Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound
by Beth Finke

Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award Winner:
Non-Fiction Companion Animals Award 2007

This book tells the story of Hanni, a Seeing Eye dog and her owner, Beth, a writer who travels a lot and is blind. Told from Hanni’s point of view, we
learn what Seeing Eye dogs do and do not do when working. When her harness is on Hanni can’t stop to eat or sniff. She can’t be petted or roll over to
scratch her back. She is focused on “keeping us safe”. While at times Hanni envies the lives of other dogs, she is very proud of her job and enjoys being allowed in places where most dogs can’t go.

End notes explain Hanni’s intensive training at the Seeing Eye School in Morristown, NJ, and how Beth became blind and came to have Hanni in her life.

If you buy Safe & Sound online from the ASPCA your purchase will help the ASPCA in its “ongoing efforts to educate children about animal awareness and create a more humane nation.”

Books purchased directly from the ASPCA will, of course, come with oo la la gold shiny medallions seals on the cover. Heck, pretty soon books purchased anywhere will come with those oo la la gold shiny medallions seals on the cover. My publisher’s son Jude Tucker says it’d be fair enough to charge more for getting a book with a sticker, I mean, medallion seal on the front. But get this: if you buy Safe & Sound online from the ASPCA, they’ll give you a discount! Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound retails for $17.95, and the ASPCA sells it for only $15.25!!

What. A. Deal.