MIKE & The Rescued Animals illustrated children's book

A project in Manhattan, NY by Marian Hailey-Moss
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A book for children on the amazing work of Mike Stura of Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue.
Backers: 96
Average Pledge Per Backer: $59

Funded: $5,656 of $5,500
Dates: Jul 15th -> Sep 13th (60 days)
Project By: Marian Hailey-Moss
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SKETCH #31 & WE'VE MADE IT! THANK YOU GUYS! YOU'RE THE BEST!! LOVE YOU!!

September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Maybe someday you can read this very book you’re reading now to an animal you love. And you can tell them that you, also, in your own special way, “rescue animals and treat them well” in honor of Jimmy, the little calf from the pumpkin patch... (Read More)

SKETCH #30 - BEDTIME STORY WITH JIMMY

September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
 Every night while Jimmy was at Skylands Mike would read Jimmy a children’s bedtime book.  (Read More)

IMAGE #28 MIKE'S HAPPY GREEN PLATE TEAM

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
You’ll be part of The Happy Green Plate Team! Page #29. Helping Mike rescue animals is really fun and awesome! Come to Skylands or any sanctuary near you and see how happy our animal friends are when they are living as mother nature wanted them to.... (Read More)

SKETCH # 26 IT GOES LIKE THIS

September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
It goes like this: If you fill your plate with veggies, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, plant-based dairy, and no animal products, then . . .  (Read More)

Sketch #29 YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW?

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
.You want to know how?    (Read More)

SKETCH # 24 DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HELP MIKE?

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Do you think you could help Mike?  (Read More)

SKETCH # 23 AND THERE ARE SO MANY

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Mike always takes good care of the animals and treats them well, much better than the places they came from. But it was harder without Jimmy. And there are so many of these animals!  (Read More)

EXTRA #2

September 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - the following are the other 6 rescued animals that we're noting in MIKE & The Rescued Animals. Marc and some of you have opted for a small blurb about each animal. And so I have a ride with my good friend Alex Lu and his new... (Read More)

SKETCH # 22 KEEP RESCUING MY FRIENDS MIKE!

September 10th - via: kickstarter.com
But Mike couldn’t just stop taking care of Jimmy’s friends. Mike heard Jimmy’s voice in his mind, “Keep rescuing my friends, Mike! And treat them well like you always do!”  (Read More)

EXTRA!

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Rescuers I just got word from Marc that everything is inked. Now he will start to color. But I'd love to share with you the 12 rescues. I'll do 6 today and 6 tomorrow. They're so wonderful! Thanks for helping to make MIKE & The Rescued Animals... (Read More)

SKETCH #21 SORROW

September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Mike was filled with sorrow.  (Read More)

SKETCH #20 TOGETHER FOR FIVE YEARS

September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Jimmy and Mike were together for five years. They made life happier for farm animals and people. Then one-night Jimmy passed away peacefully. His job on earth was over.  (Read More)

SKETCH #18. OH IT WAS FUN!

September 7th - via: kickstarter.com
There were movie nights, yoga days, and even Jimmy Jams, which was a full day of meeting the animals and having yummy plant-based food to eat. Oh, it was fun!! And people learned a lot about animals too.  (Read More)

SKETCH 15 - PEOPLE FRIENDS TOO!

September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
15. Jimmy wanted people friends too. Soon Skylands was holding tours and talks about the animals.  Jimmy would welcome every single person to his home with gentleness and love. Jimmy had a big heart. He loved meeting all the visitors.  (Read More)

ONE INKED RESCUE SO FAR - TREVOR a British White

September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
14. Skylands became home to many of Jimmy’s friends. Here are a few animals that Mike rescued from trouble and the dining room table: TREVOR  (Read More)

SKETCH #12. ONTO THE NEW JOB

September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
 Well! In that case… Jimmy needed friends! And so Mike would go anywhere, anytime, anyhow, no matter what - to rescue animals in need. He would try to comfort each one, saying: “Do you know who I am? You’re safe with me.”  (Read More)

SKETCH 11 - A NEW DAY

September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
11. Jimmy had a home.      And Mike had a new job!   “I work for Jimmy,” Mike said.  (Read More)

SKETCH #10 EUREKA!

September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
10. Mike had promised to keep Jimmy safe. So, Mike did something very brave. He went and bought lots and lots of land in Wantage, New Jersey and created Jimmy’s very own special home:  Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue  (Read More)

SKETCH # 8 HOMELESS

September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
8. After six and a half weeks, Jimmy was ready for his forever home. But where would he go? No sanctuary was available. Jimmy was homeless.  (Read More)

SKETCH #7 JIMMY'S HEALING

September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
They found that Jimmy had to stay until his knees healed. He hadn’t been given enough of his mother’s milk that would have protected him against infections and illness.  (Read More)

SKETCH #6 FIRST THINGS FIRST

September 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
First, Jimmy had to be checked out at the hospital, like all the rescues.   (Read More)

SKETCH #5 Mike named the calf Jimmy.

September 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
 Dear Rescuers - I was able to connect with Mike yesterday at 3:00 in the morning. He likes what we're doing here with a couple of edits and gave some suggestions for the rescue section. So Marc can go ahead now and ink and color. As you can see... (Read More)

IMAGE #4 A LITTLE CALF IN A PUMPKIN PATCH

September 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
One day, a woman called Mike to help about a young calf. The calf was taken from a dairy farm and had been kept near a pumpkin patch.  Folks would see the calf and then want to buy the pumpkins. During her visit that afternoon, the woman overheard... (Read More)

Sketch #3 & story

September 1st - via: kickstarter.com
 On days off from his truck driving job, Mike worked at farm animal sanctuaries. Those are homes for animals, where they can happily live out their lives, as mother nature intended.  (Read More)

WE HAVE 21 SKETCHES!!

September 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Dear Rescuers! We have 21 sketches ready for MIKE"S approval. Once MIKE says "okay" Marc inks and then colors the images. Here's the second one introducing MIKE: Meet Mike Stura! Mike believes in Kindness to All Animals. Mike is a no-nonsense kind... (Read More)

BABY LENNIE the Goat

August 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - BABY LENNIE was rescued just in the nick of time from being sacrificed for a religious ritual and Boy! was he ever hungry!! Below is YOUNG LENNIE  showing the boots who's boss!! I think Marc has started. I'm so excited because he... (Read More)

OOPS !

August 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - I was just notified that these feathered friends of Jimmy's shown here are actually BABY TURKEYS!! Makes them all the more adorable!! I mistook them for chickens! Good thing Mike will check everything before we go to print. I'll be... (Read More)

JIMMY'S FEATHERED FRIENDS

August 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers -here are three Skyland chickens, don't know their names as yet, then Robin the turkey that was placed by the gate of Skylands at holiday time by a mystery person, and  Brooklyn the rooster was found running on the streets of, you... (Read More)

Hurricane Holdouts

August 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - while we are waiting for Marc's sketches of the story I'd like to show you two black Angus cows, Babe on the left I think and Red on the right. Babe was pulled from Hurricane Harvey waters in 2017 and Red was pulled from Hurricane... (Read More)

MARC'S ON THE STORY NOW - BACK FROM VACATION

August 25th - via: kickstarter.com
 SKETCH for Back Cover idea  (Read More)

ANIMAL RIGHTS MARCH OF 2019 WAS TODAY

August 24th - via: kickstarter.com
SKYLANDS WAS REPRESENTED!! Exciting & hopeful to see so many marching!!  photo by Paula Zoe  (Read More)

THE TEENY WEENY

August 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Some rescues are babies and because their mom is in trouble, they have to be bottle fed round the clock. Farmers don't want to do that, so if they can, they drop them off to MIKE.  (Read More)

GOOD NEWS & SKYLANDS SWEETHEARTS

August 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Treasured Rescuers - We have made our goal. I'll check with Marc tomorrow when he is to return from vacation. I'll know then or over the weekend when we can start. As far as the Kickstarter the pledges will be in hibernation until Sept. 13th... (Read More)

Conner the Curly Cutie

August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers -  We have to have CONNER in the Rescues section! Too cute! I don't know Conner's story  yet. The plan is Marc will draw all the sketches of the story and then I will go to Skylands and MIKE will have to okay everything before we... (Read More)

when I met Jimmy

August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - As you know by now, Jimmy is the reason that MIKE's Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue came into being. In our book, Jimmy's story bookends the rescues. I met Jimmy 3 years ago while doing research for the FREDDIE coloring book. I... (Read More)

Happy Friday Tidbit

August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Happy Friday Dear Rescuers - Below is the image of a 80,000 pound kind of truck MIKE was driving before he had Skylands Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary and Rescue. "Driving a piece of metal that weighs 80,000 pounds is not for everybody. And if you dare... (Read More)

EXPLANATION OF FUNDS

August 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Dear Rescuers,  A friend pledged a generous amount yesterday that will be uploaded soon by Michele to the Kickstarter, MIKE & The Rescued Animals but she didn't understand what her funds were for. I'll explain for others who may have pledged... (Read More)

FREDDIE SKETCH

August 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - MIKE'S work comes to light to the public because he is "there" hands-on when crisis happens. Many times he risks his life as you heard on the last update with FREDDIE. This is Marc's sketch of FREDDIE for MIKE & The Rescued... (Read More)

We are 75% pledged.

August 11th - via: kickstarter.com
This is terrific fellow Rescuers we are 75 % pledged. Please tell friends and relatives about our children's book MIKE & The Rescued Animals...the more folks on board the better the vibes. Most everybody can do the three dollar pledge!! Thanks so... (Read More)

JIMMY

August 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Mike posted last night on Facebook that today, August 10, marks one year since Jimmy passed away. Jimmy was the inspiration for Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue. He's the little calf from the pumpkin patch. Below is my favorite image of Jimmy -... (Read More)

NEW PROMO and NEWS

August 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - I wanted to share with you a new promo my dear friend MICHAEL DRUXMAN put together yeterday. We were in plays together in college and he went on to become a successful PR guy in Hollywood for actors. I love him. This is just for fun... (Read More)

GREAT NEWS!

August 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers, We're 40 dollars shy of 4,000 when the battered check that came Tuesday is entered of our 5,500 goal! A 300 dollar check came Tuesday torn and tattered in the mail. I scotch taped it together. Fingers crossed.  My dear gifted friend... (Read More)

GOTTA LOVE MUSHYFACE

August 6th - via: kickstarter.com
As you know, Mushyface is on our cover of MIKE & The Rescued Animals.  I was so excited to meet Mushyface while at Skylands doing research for the coloring book but she was sleeping. I'm hoping this time to get her story and find her awake. I... (Read More)

WHAT THE BOOK WILL REVEAL FOR CHILDREN compared TO WHAT YOU NOW KNOW.

August 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Little day-old WALTER weighing 90 pounds, rescued by MIKE from a big, big, big, dairy farm in the middle of winter. Soon will meet his "brother" CHRISTOPHER at Skylands.  (Read More)

BABY WALTER RESCUE - PART TWO - or The Fun-Filled Life of a Cow

August 5th - via: kickstarter.com
MIKE, who has seen almost everything regarding the treatment of animals was stunned at the enormity of the situation. As far as his eye could see, there were these little huts housing  baby calves. All the babies had been taken from  their mothers... (Read More)

BABY WALTER RESCUE - PART ONE of The Fun-filled Life of a Cow

August 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Rescuers - The following description of baby Walter's rescue is for us only. The children's book will have the image of MIKE carrying Walter that we posted in the previous update and we will say something like: Walter, a day-old boy calf was... (Read More)

Eleven more "Rescuers" have joined since the last message.

August 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks be to the new eleven Rescuers for your pledging and your good vibes. A special few also supported the FREDDIE coloring book.  It seems so "home" now that you are on board for this book too. Everyone is making the subtext hopeful and loving... (Read More)

THE BEAUTY OF THESE TWO DAIRY RESCUES

August 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Dear Fellow Rescuers - the beauty of the two rescues Marc has drawn( shown below )is that the mom and calf are able to stay together for the rest of their natural lives at MIKE"S Skylands. As most of you know, the diary industry and private dairy... (Read More)

FUN ASIDE

August 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Before begging for my children's books - I was begging not to get married...photo in today's NYTimes in Arts Section August 1, 2019 - article about HAL PRINCE...photo is of myself and STEVE ELMORE in COMPANY on Broadway. Probably 1971-2. STEVE was... (Read More)

Link to newspaper coverage of Brianna's rescue

July 30th - via: kickstarter.com
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6604699/Brianna-Cows-rescue-prompts-bill-protect-slaughtering-pregnant-animals.html Dear pledges you might enjoy the newspaper coverage of Brianna's rescue and subsequently Winter's rescue if you haven't... (Read More)

OUR BOOK I WILL BE APPROPRIATE FOR ALL AGES

July 30th - via: kickstarter.com
MIKE & The Rescued Animals will be appropriate for all ages. The rescues will mostly be images. I'm just explaining the rescues for you, our pledges who are grown-ups. The story of Jimmy is the through line of the book. I want to assure you... (Read More)

BRIANNA & WINTER RESCUE

July 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Because MIKE was willing to jump in his van after a call for help at 3:00 a.m.and rescue a 2 year old spent dairy cow new legislation has been made making it a crime to send a pregnant cow to slaughter. Brianna jumped 8 feet from the second tier of... (Read More)

Thank you Guest 186824728

July 28th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

A 6 PLEDGE WEEKEND

July 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Friends - This weekend six new folks have pledged to MIKE & The Rescued Animals. And the day isn't done yet. Thank you so much guys for your pledge. The farm animals and kids are happy! No amount is too small or too big so please spread the... (Read More)

TWO NEW PLEDGES TODAY

July 25th - via: kickstarter.com
I want to acknowledge two friends who are on our "rescue team" for our book, MIKE & The Rescued Animals.  Michele will enter their pledges when she returns from vacation. Marie Wallace has pledged 25 dollars - Marie had two leading roles (not at... (Read More)

What MIKE says to each and every animal he rescues.

July 24th - via: kickstarter.com
"Do you know who I am?"   "You're safe with me."  (Read More)

PLEDGES WHO CAN'T OR DON'T WANT TO PLEDGE ONLINE

July 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
I have friends who don't pledge online for various reasons. Therefore my good neighbor Michele Sacher is kind enough to enter their pledges for them since I can't enter any pledges which is a rule of the Kickstarter. So far they are as follows:... (Read More)

WE'VE GOT A GOOD BEGINNING

July 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you all so very much. your joining in to bring MIKE & The Rescued Animals come to life gives the book a special and loving vibrational subtext. For those of you who aren't on social media much I want to show you a sketch Marc has done of... (Read More)

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