A Year of Reading

Novelist and poet Irene Latham has never shied away from hard topics. With Charles Waters, she has tackled race and racism head on (pun inte...

First there was Because of Winn Dixie  by Kate DiCamillo. This scruffy dog who smiles shows up in India Opal's life and helps her to...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by L Church What to do if You Are a Retriever F reeze until the command is given. E xplode from the d...

Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure by Samantha Seiple Scholastic, 2013 review ARC provided by the publisher review by Aloysius J. W...

White Fur Flying by Patricia MacLachlan Margaret K. McElderry Books, on shelves March 2013 Alice and Zoe's family in White Fur ...

I picked up the newest book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series this week. The newest published in October is National Geog...

Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories edited by Ann M. Martin Henry Holt, 2012 review copy provided by the publisher Where should...

August 26 is National Dog Day . To honor the day, J. Patrick Lewis kindly sent this poem. And wasn't it serendipitous that just recen...

Frenemies for Life by John E. Becker, Ph.D. School Street Media (for the Columbus Zoological Park Assn.), 2010 The Columbus Zoo is famou...

Just when you think you have enough dog books, you come across another great one that you must have! No matter how many dog books I have--fi...

I had to share a highlight from my weekend's book shopping. I picked up WHY DO I HAVE TO EAT OFF THE FLOOR by Chris Hornsey . This is a ...

CRACKER!: THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM by Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum, February 2007 Review copy purchased at Liberty Books Cracker is completely d...