Tatti Wattles is a book about love, self-discovery, and teaching. This is the first bedtime story I've had read to me that I have actually loved. Tatti Wattles was a rat that performer Rachel Rosenthal discovered and took under her wing. Tatti became Rachel's close friend and led her on a journey to self-discovery, where she discovered her power animal was the rat. Tatti converted many rat-haters to rat lovers. After his death, he led Rachel to save other rats and to all around be a better person. This book is filled with fabulous illustrations of dreams and memories Rachel had with Tatti. This book is inspirational, and I recommend it to everyone. My favorite quote is from the end of Tatti Wattles: A Love Story: Spirit, soul, consciousness, and miracle reside in everything. Animals teach us about life and death, if we let them. And in between, about love, hate, tenderness, anger, pain, ruthlessness, loyalty, friendship, craftiness, resignation-every possible feeling with infinite shads and tones. To love an animal truly, is to truly love, with no expectation other than to delight in that love. To see and believe that is simple, and yet it is the most radical world view. Tatti Wattles, a little black rat Norvegian rat with good karma was here to prove it." -Rachel Rosenthal