Rachel Isadora has created a reading and visual gem for the younger crowd with My Dog Laughs. The children and their dogs show how varied dogs are, as well as their owners. Each page shows how dogs make mistakes, give kisses, make friends, fart, eat and laugh. Each page shows there are tall, short, fluffy and all kinds of dogs. Yet, sometimes dogs look the same, too. Isadora shows how people take care of and love their canine buddies. Without being pushy, Isadora also shows […]
All Dogs Go to Heaven
cbr10bingo… Two heads are better than one Even though it’s called two heads are better than one, I went with three heads. I enlisted the help of my two nieces. Olivia is eight and Nora is six. They’re awesome, and they love dogs, and they love reading. This review is both happy and sad. We read this book because I lost my little guy Ernie this spring. It was the hardest thing I’ve had to go through in a long long time. He was a […]
While I’ll miss them coming to my store, I did not miss their gem of a book!
Good Rosie is the latest picture book by author Kate DiCamillo and illustrator Harry Bliss. It is an interesting take on a new situation scenario where the child (or in this case, dog) is lonely and would like to make friends but is nervous about making these new friends. This new situation could because the child/dog is going to a new school, it is their first day of school or they are going to the child/dog park. While you can see the illustrations are […]
A Sweet Pea & Friends book
A Farm for Maisie is the third title in the Sweet Pea & Friends series. These books by John and Jennifer Churchman tell the story of their farm and the animals that live there. Each story is told from the viewpoint of the animals. Their humanistic thoughts, feelings and fears come together within the text and photographs. The first, Sweet Pea & Friends is The Sheepover. It was a big hit at my bookstore. The customers like the sweet, fanciful story of animals and what […]
The Dog World: Politics, Crazy, and Fluff
Show Dog is a nonfiction work by Josh Dean that takes the reader on a journey through a year of living like a show dog. By show dog I am referring to the archetypal dog shows known as confirmation shows. I must confess first of all that I came to this book as someone who has been in and out of the dog world for most of my life, and probably most importantly for this particular book someone who has owned Australian Shepherds and considers myself a […]
Pet Bereavement Counselors Have Problems Too
Meg Brennan has recently relocated from Philadelphia to San Francisco and has started up a business as a pet bereavement counselor. However, as is often the case with those in the counseling field, she is struggling with her own issues. Her beloved dog, Toby, died not long after she arrived in California and since then Meg has found herself unable to leave the house. She has managed to hide this from her best friend (and landlord) who lives upstairs thanks to the magic of ordering […]