To hear “I love you” as your child’s first words is something most mothers could only dream of. For Tracy Austwick, just to hear any words from her daughter—who doctors had predicted would never speak, following an emergency tracheostomy when born 14 weeks premature—was a miracle. But even more arresting, was to whom—or what—those words were spoken: a gentle giant of a donkey named Shocks. Tracy only happened to overhear Amber’s whispered words of affection for the dear creature that had, in her third year of life, effected a miracle. “Amber’s Donkey” tells the incredible tale of Amber, who was born a mere 1 pound and 9 ounces, and the unlikely friendship she forged with a beleaguered burro. The tale of her furry friend, affectionately dubbed “Shocksy,” is equally remarkable. He had been saved from the brink of death himself, only a few years before meeting Amber, by the good …