Table of Contents
Flying hooves
Mickey
Run for your life!
A quail's heartbreak
Dumas, the friendly sea otter
An icy plunge
The roar of a tiger
Buttons and Brandon
Buttons gets loose!
An agonizing choice
Okay, monkey, I'll find you!
A stray at the foot of the ladder
Bear escapes a forest fire
Saved at sea
A kangaroo's fatal attraction
Uninvited guest
A pony in the house
Luna of Nootka Sound
Dangerous kisses
Balto's race for life
Encounter with a cougar
Koko and All Ball
China, the cat
Where's Mom?
Tip tips off the searchers
Berry-less bear
Baby orphan orca
Trixey finds a home
Salamander crossing
The bear's newfound den
Lonesome
A courageous forty feet
Safe!
A calico cat in trouble
Flazey
The light hurts
Excerpt:
Dangerous Kisses
"Hey, everyone watch me kiss my rattlesnake on the lips," John announced to the group of friends at his house. He puckered his lips in a mock kiss. His friends gathered around to watch the show.
"Don't do it!" his friend Robert protested. "That's crazy! The snake will bit!" he warned.
"Don't worry. I've done it many times before, and my snake has ever bitten me," John said with a cocky smile.
As his friends all watched, John reached into the glass aquarium where he kept his pet snake. He picked it up with one hand behind its head and the other under its body. The rattles were silent. The snake was a little over two feet long and had only two rattles at the end of its tail - a young snake.
John held the snake up for his friends to view for a moment and then moved it towards his face to kiss it. The small crowd gasped as the snake suddenly struck with an open mouth and sank its fangs into John's upper lip. At that instant, the snake's poisonous venom was sent through its long, hollow fangs and into John's lip before the snake pulled away.
In astonishment, John dropped the snake to the floor and cried out, "I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"
Robert, the same friend who tried to discourage John from kissing the snake, quickly killed the snake that was coiling around on the floor as if to strike again. Then he turned to help his terror-stricken friend whose upper lip was already swelling. In a firm voice he told John not to panic and that they would get help. Someone quickly called 9-1-1 and were told that paramedics were on the way.
At the hospital they treated John with antivenom for the snakebite. After a severe illness he recovered from the poisoning. The doctor credited his recovery to the rattlesnake's small size and being young.
It's dangerous to keep a poisonous creature for a pet. It's even more dangerous and foolish to kiss such a creature. Most of us don't have to be told, "Don't kiss a poisonous snake." However, there is something very dangerous that you and I easily get accustomed to, and that is sin. Sin carries a poisonous bite with it that is far more deadly that that of John's rattlesnake. "When lust hath conceived, it [brings] forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, [brings] forth death." (James 1:15). Sin isn't harmless. It is the deadliest evil known to man: "The sting of death is sin" (1 Corinthians 15:56). "The soul that [sins], it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:20)....
Publisher's review:
It is hard to find a child who doesn't love some kind of animal. We trust that no child who reads this book will be able to put it down without knowing and loving the Lord Jesus as well. You will find it brimming with stories about...
- daring dogs
- mischievous horses
- dangerous rattlesnakes
- trapped cats
- orphaned orcas
- and many more.
Summary: Uninvited bears, cuddly kittens, and prowling mountain lions illustrate Gospel truths. All true stories with Scripture applications and clear presentation of the Gospel. Black and white illustrations.
Reading level: Read to 4-8; Read myself 8 and above.
Paperback.
Pages: 206
Size: 126 x 204mm
Bible Truth Publishers. 2007
Bible version: KJV
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