Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time. This item is unavailable.Esther the Wonder Pig: Changing the World One Heart at a Time

In the summer of 2012, Steve Jenkins was contacted by an old friend about adopting a micro piglet. Though he knew his partner Derek wouldn't be enthusiastic, he agreed to take the adorable little pig anyways, thinking he could care for her himself. Little did he know how that decision would change his and Derek's lives forever.

It turned out that there was nothing "micro" about Esther, and Steve and Derek had actually signed on to raise a full-sized commercial pig. Tiny Esther weighed just four pounds back then, but in three years, she was a whopping 600 pounds. Esther quickly outgrew their small home--but not without some real growing pains and a lot of pig-sized messes. When it became clear that Esther needed more space--and a lot of it--Steve and Derek made another life-changing decision: they bought a farm and opened the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, where they could care for Esther and other animals in need.

Funny, heartwarming, and utterly charming, ESTHER THE WONDER PIG followes Steve and Derek's adventure--from reluctant pig parents to farm-owning advocates for animals--showing how families really do come in all shapes and sizes.

In just two short years, Steve and Derek have cemented a place for themselves among the worlds most well-known and successful animal activists, accumulating hundreds of thousands of followers from all over the world. In 2014 Steve and Derek founded the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary in Campbellville, Ontario, where they continue to rescue and rehabilitate abandoned and abused farmed animals.

Caprice Crane is an award-winning, internationally bestselling, five-time novelist, screenwriter, and televisions writer. Caprice's humor and satirical observations have earned her a wildly loyal social media following and the distinction as one of the Huffington Post's "50 Funny People You Should Be Following on Twitter." Her debut novel Stupid and Contagious was published in fourteen countries, and Caprice was awarded the 2006 RT Reviews Choice Award. She followed that success in 2007 by winning the same award for her second novel Forget About It, another international bestseller. She has since published three more novels to critical acclaim including her debut YA novel, Confessions of a Hater, which received a love letter in the New York Times Book Review in the fall of 2013.