Letters to My Sheep
Letters to My Sheep, a 2024 Nautilus Book Award winner and a 2024 Los Angeles Book Festival runner-up, is a fast-paced meditative journey through my life with my rescued sheep, available as ebook and paperback.
It was launched by Carol Gigliotti in late November 2023 in the beautiful Blue Mountains.
Read an excerpt. All proceeds to animal causes.
The paperback edition is available through online retailers worldwide, selected book stores and through me personally (discounts for animal organisations and bulk orders). The eBook is also available through a number of online retailers as well as my online store.
It was launched by Carol Gigliotti in late November 2023 in the beautiful Blue Mountains.
Read an excerpt. All proceeds to animal causes.
The paperback edition is available through online retailers worldwide, selected book stores and through me personally (discounts for animal organisations and bulk orders). The eBook is also available through a number of online retailers as well as my online store.
Letters to My Sheep is a fast-paced yet intimate journey, in epistolary form, through a woman’s life with her four rescued sheep. The author combines her hands-on experience with sheep and her scholarly expertise to guide the reader as they learn about sheep subjectivity and animals’ intimate and social lives generally. Using language that is accessible to the general public, the Letters cover a broad range of topics, inclusive of, but not limited to, animal emotions, cognition, spirituality, culture, and prejudice, which singularly and jointly help elucidate human-nonhuman comparability and divergence. The text is accompanied by black and white photographs, and it includes humorous inserts of sheep talking to one another.
What people are saying:
‘Don’t be sheepish’ is an expression we have all heard but said with little knowledge of just who sheep are. I invite you to journey with Teya as she pens heartfelt Letters to My Sheep to find out! Many will be amazed to discover that no blanket description can cover them all. And that casting them as the dim-witted automatons our society and its wanting animal protection legislation has should leave us more than embarrassed. – Pam Ahern, founder of Edgar’s Mission
I never intended to sit here all evening and just read it, but I did. Sheep are infinitely more complicated than just about anyone thought before Teya put her brilliant mind (and heart) to work. This book is bristling with new and unique insights. I couldn’t put it down. – Jeffrey M. Masson, PhD, author of When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions
Letters to My Sheep is a book like no other. Through word and image, human and sheep behaviours are examined in vivid detail. Candid yet elegant, this book offers the reader a comfortable and safe space to contemplate our relations to other animals. – Carol Gigliotti, PhD, author of The Creative Lives of Animals
Read this book and laugh, cry, and sigh, and I'm sure you will come away with a new and enriched view of the vastly different personalities sheep display and how special each and every individual truly is. – Marc Bekoff, PhD, author of The Animals' Agenda and The Emotional Lives of Animals
It was a risky project. It could so easily have been ‘twee’, but it wasn’t at all. It was readable, conversational, grounded and wide-ranging. It was intimate and journal-like, and the more theoretical insights grew naturally out of specific observed incidents. Lots of knowledge borne lightly. It was joyous. – Poet Brook Emery, PhD
This slender, beautiful book reveals what happens when we treat nonhuman animals with the same consideration as we would other humans; it’s an elegant, compassionate story of a family. – EcoLit Books
If awe is one common response between human and nonhuman animal life, Pribac profoundly demonstrates that so is grief. Her sheep mourn the loss of their canine friend, and the book closes with Pribac’s and her husband’s grief over the loss of a sheep (…) It’s moving, and yet Pribac recognizes the inevitability of death: ‘We can’t do much about it. [The cycles of life] steal from us, but they also bring us gifts.’ I think readers will find many gifts between the pages of this book. - Bibliotekos
What people are saying:
‘Don’t be sheepish’ is an expression we have all heard but said with little knowledge of just who sheep are. I invite you to journey with Teya as she pens heartfelt Letters to My Sheep to find out! Many will be amazed to discover that no blanket description can cover them all. And that casting them as the dim-witted automatons our society and its wanting animal protection legislation has should leave us more than embarrassed. – Pam Ahern, founder of Edgar’s Mission
I never intended to sit here all evening and just read it, but I did. Sheep are infinitely more complicated than just about anyone thought before Teya put her brilliant mind (and heart) to work. This book is bristling with new and unique insights. I couldn’t put it down. – Jeffrey M. Masson, PhD, author of When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions
Letters to My Sheep is a book like no other. Through word and image, human and sheep behaviours are examined in vivid detail. Candid yet elegant, this book offers the reader a comfortable and safe space to contemplate our relations to other animals. – Carol Gigliotti, PhD, author of The Creative Lives of Animals
Read this book and laugh, cry, and sigh, and I'm sure you will come away with a new and enriched view of the vastly different personalities sheep display and how special each and every individual truly is. – Marc Bekoff, PhD, author of The Animals' Agenda and The Emotional Lives of Animals
It was a risky project. It could so easily have been ‘twee’, but it wasn’t at all. It was readable, conversational, grounded and wide-ranging. It was intimate and journal-like, and the more theoretical insights grew naturally out of specific observed incidents. Lots of knowledge borne lightly. It was joyous. – Poet Brook Emery, PhD
This slender, beautiful book reveals what happens when we treat nonhuman animals with the same consideration as we would other humans; it’s an elegant, compassionate story of a family. – EcoLit Books
If awe is one common response between human and nonhuman animal life, Pribac profoundly demonstrates that so is grief. Her sheep mourn the loss of their canine friend, and the book closes with Pribac’s and her husband’s grief over the loss of a sheep (…) It’s moving, and yet Pribac recognizes the inevitability of death: ‘We can’t do much about it. [The cycles of life] steal from us, but they also bring us gifts.’ I think readers will find many gifts between the pages of this book. - Bibliotekos
