Author Tonya Williams’s New Children’s Book Tells a Rescue Puppy’s Story Through the Lens of Her Wisconsin Ranch

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Tonya Williams has released "The Adventures of Loki and Friends," a children’s book narrated by a rescue puppy named Loki who leaves an uncertain start in Texas behind and finds a home on a working farm. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available now in bookstores and through major online retailers.

The story is told in Loki’s own voice. He arrives at his new home not knowing anyone, and the book follows him as he meets the farm’s other animals, including a donkey named Amos who becomes his closest friend, along with goats, horses, cattle, and potbellied pigs. According to the publisher’s description, each of these animals carries a story of its own, and Loki’s arrival becomes part of a larger web of relationships built around rescue, belonging, and gratitude.

Williams draws on her own background for the material. She grew up on a farm and now runs Never Done Ranch, a 200-acre property in Wisconsin, with her husband, raising cattle, horses, goats, and other livestock alongside family pets. That hands-on experience with animals, she says, shaped how she thinks about faith and resilience, and it’s the frame the book uses throughout: animals as both companions and, in Williams’s telling, instruments of spiritual lesson.

In her statement, Williams remarked that "Animals have been God’s instrument in my life to teach me about love, forgiveness, and purpose." "I wanted to share these lessons through Loki’s story so that children everywhere could understand that their pets are not just companions: they are teachers of the heart."

The book is categorized as juvenile nonfiction-adjacent fiction aimed at young, animal-loving readers, and is pitched as a faith-centered take on the familiar rescue-dog narrative, with the ranch setting giving it a specific, lived-in backdrop rather than a generic farm.

Studio CarryOnHarry sees the appeal here less in the plot than in the setting: a real working ranch, run by the author herself, lending a children’s book about rescue animals an unusual degree of authenticity.

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