Harvey and the Lightning Herd is a new children’s book by Helga Tacreiter—founder of The Cow Sanctuary in Bridgeton, New Jersey—and PETA that tells the sweet, semi-autobiographical story of the author’s friendship with a little calf named Harvey and how nursing him back to health after a disastrous storm led her to open a beautiful sanctuary and provide lifelong care to cows, pigs, and other animals who are often forgotten. Featuring enchanting illustrations by Denise V. Tremblay, Harvey and the Lightning Herd is an age-appropriate account of how Tacreiter, while working on a farm as a young woman, woke up to find six orphaned calves, whose mothers had been struck by lightning overnight. She vowed to save them all and formed a special bond with one of them, Harvey. He became her inspiration for faux-fur “cowches”—life-size plush likenesses of real cows—by standing still so she could use him as her first moodel. By making and selling those cowches, she was able to buy an 80-acre farm, now the site of The Cow Sanctuary.