Rudy The Resilient Rhinoceros

by Caitlyn Buser, Katie Lovick, Aiden And Alison Duiker, Alison Duiker

Rudy the Resilient Rhinoceros is a story about honoring your emotions and feelings, but not allowing yourself to stay in that sad place for very long. A tale of resilience, a young Rhino calf's father has fallen sick in their native land. Zoologists, who had been observing the family, take the sick Rhino back to their clinic to help him heal. Rudy and his mother fear that they have lost their loved one forever. Sadness fills their days, until one day they make a decision to start living to honor him. Rudy begins to take on the jobs his father once did in an effort to honor him and support his mother. Surprisingly, their loved one is brought back to their native land and is healed of his illness. The once ill father is now healthy and so proud of Rudy for honoring his sadness, feeling his feelings, and then making the choice to turn those feelings into something positive. Rudy chose to rise above his sorrow and, inspite of it, finds his own healing and helpful purpose for his young life. In the pages of this delightful book, Rudy discovers the power of his own resilience.