Sy Montgomery has done a great job in moving back and forth between Grandin’s current life and her childhood and even included interviews with friends of Temple. The book is interspersed with childhood photographs and drawings of Grandin’s designs for animal science. Today Grandin is a world authority on the humane treatment of animals raised for food and her job is to design equipment that protect livestock from fear and suffering. Some of the depictions of slaughterhouses in the book may be hard for animal lovers to read. The conditions of slaughterhouses are not glossed over, but the book does not try to make anyone feel guilty for