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*** new dog park book coming out in October! ***
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 At the Dog Park with Sam and Lucy,
by Daisy Bix; illustrated by Amelia Hansen.
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A book for kids of all ages about dogs named Sam and Lucy who play at a dog park. End of the book has information for grownups about dog parks.
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 Circle Dogs,
by Kevin Henkes; illustrated by Dan Yaccarino.
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A cute, silly bedtime story about a family with two parents, two children,
and two Dachshunds. The dogs eat and play, and then they sleep-sleep-sleep.
For babies and young children.
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 Counting Kisses : A Kiss & Read Book,
by Karen Katz.
| Board book for even the tiniest ones, but can be appreciated by most younger kids. The whole family, including pets, counts from ten kisses down to one as they put the baby to bed with kisses on named body parts. Sweet and gentle, but not saccharine.
Our children have stopped tantrums to have this book read to them.
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| Grover's New Kitten,
by Sesame Street, photographed by John E. Barrett.
| Board book for wee ones to preschoolers. Grover adopts a kitten. Out of print.
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 Olive, the Other Reindeer,
by Vivian Walsh (Illustrator), J. Otto Seibold (Illustrator).
| Olive is a dog who thinks she's a reindeer after (mis-)hearing the song
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." She goes to the North Pole to join up
with Santa; her dog talents come in handy.
Toddlers through mid-elementary school.
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 Curious George and the Puppies,
by Margret Rey and H.A. Rey.
| Curious George visits the animal shelter, wants to get a puppy, wants
to hold a puppy, lets the puppies loose.
Available in
paperback or
hardcover,
October 1998.
Young children - early elementary school.
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 Ginger Finds a Home,
by Charlotte Voake.
| A scrawny, sad cat lives in a vacant lot and eats out of the garbage. He's hungry and cold much of the time. One day, a little girl starts to leave yummy cat food out for him. He gradually warms up to her and comes to live with her - and returns only to the grass to stretch in the sun.
Seems very sad at first and may provoke tears (did with our 3-year-old), but if you let your little one(s) know ahead of time that it's a *very* happy ending, they are beaming by the time the book closes.
Young children - early elementary school.
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 Any Kind of Dog,
by Amy Cohn (Editor), Lynn W. Reiser.
| A boy named Richard really wants a dog, but his mom tries to satisfy
him with other (sometimes exotic) animals. He eventually does get a dog.
Kindergarten through mid-elementary school. Watercolor illustrations.
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 Puppy Love (The Pet Patrol, No 1),
by Betsy Duffey, Susanna Natti (Illustrator).
| First of a series; light reading.
Evie and Megan try to start a pet-care business. Their first task is
to take care of a box of puppies that get left on their doorstep.
Paperback, 80 pages, September 1994.
Late elementary school.
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| Animal Rescue Squad #1: The Kitten Alert,
by Ellen Weiss.
| First of a series of animal-welfare fiction for young readers.
Molly and friends try to save a kitten which may have been deliberately
poisoned, and get in trouble in the process.
Paperback, June 1995.
Late elementary school.
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| Animal Rescue Squad #4: Nobody's Dog,
by Ellen Weiss, Mel Friedman (Contributor).
| Part of a series of animal-welfare fiction.
Molly and friends try to save a racing greyhound from death.
Paperback, 108 pages, January 1996.
Late elementary school.
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| Saving Casey,
by Karen Mueller Coombs.
| Story about a boy who works part-time in a lab. He finds a dog he used
to walk, Casey, in one of the cages there and decides to save him.
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 Scaredy Dog (Hyperion Chapters),
by Jane Resh Thomas, Marilyn Mets (Illustrator).
| A little girl adopts a scared, neglected dog from an animal shelter
and turns him into a happy pet.
Paperback, 43 pages, September 1996.
Kindergarten through mid-elementary school.
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 The Booford Summer,
by Susan Mathias Smith, Andrew Glass (Illustrator).
| A ten-year-old animal-loving girl feels bad for Booford, the dog that just
moved in across the street. His grumpy owner neglects him, leaving him
chained outside, and Booford is obviously unhappy and lonely. The girl
asks to walk Booford and is - to her surprise - allowed to; in caring
for the dog, she not only improves the his life, but thaws out his owner
as well.
Hardcover, 130 pages, September 1994.
Elementary school.
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