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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Written by Ellie Laks
Narrated by Hillary Huber
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to rehabilitate abandoned and/or abused animals. As Ellie teaches the volunteers to care for the animals, they learn a new language of healing that works wonders on the humans as well.
My Gentle Barn weaves together the story of how the Barn came to be what it is today with Ellie's own journey. Filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries, My Gentle Barn is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir readers alike.
My Gentle Barn weaves together the story of how the Barn came to be what it is today with Ellie's own journey. Filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries, My Gentle Barn is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir readers alike.
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Ellie Laks
Ellie Laks is the founder of The Gentle Barn.
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Reviews for My Gentle Barn
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an amazing and inspiring story . If you love animals then this book for you. The author has created a gentle barn where abused animals and humans alike can connect and heal each other. We need more places like this!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I expected this book to be one of my casual weekend morning books that I read for about 20 pages while drinking coffee before I start housework. I started reading it this morning and next thing I know I was on page 150 and really wanted to keep reading. My housework would have to wait. I had laughed several times, cried several times, and was only about halfway through the book.
I was expecting a charming tale, and I got that, but I was not expecting to be completely sucked in like I was. I had heard about Gentle Barn years ago, so the "story" was not entirely new to me, but Ellie Laks tale of building this remarkable organization, along with her experiences recovering from sexual abuse and drug addiction, her personal failures and many triumphs over setbacks was really fascinating. Her honesty, lack of judgment, and spirit of forgiveness is so inspiring as a human being. The book is well-written and immersive. An excellent read.
I got a copy of the ARC from Goodreads Giveaways. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Do you love animals? Have you ever felt that you have a special bond with them? If the answer is yes then you will want to read Ellie Laks’ memoir My Gentle Barn. It is about rescuing animals, and healing them and then letting them help bring hope to children that are hurting. The story is so enthralling that I starting reading it one evening and finished it the next day. I remember finding out about The Gentle Barn on FB through other rescue pages. I loved seeing the pictures of the animals and hearing about their stories; many times praying that the animal would survive and that she and her husband would get the needed funding to help. This book is a more in-depth look behind the pictures. A little warning here: some of the stories are difficult to hear and a trauma that happened to her as a young girl is upsetting, but I hope that won’t deter you from reading this hope-filled book. It can be read by teenagers, as well as adults, and it would be great to pass it on to groups and families who work with at-risk kids. I’m definitely giving it a five star rating.