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Editor’s note: Today GNMParents welcomes Andrea Ross of the Swimming in Literary Soup podcast. Just click on the player above to hear some suggestions for books that may just satisfy your child’s yearning for a dog! For the full transcript, please visit Episode 3: Desperately Seeking Fido. You can contact Andrea at justonemorebook@gmail.com. Welcome, Andrea!

Soup du Jour:

Today we look at a “clump” of three books about longing for a dog:

Ingredients:

• I Want a Dog (Dayal Kaur Khalsa; 1994 Tundra Books)

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• Amigo ( Byrd Baylor Illustrated by Garth Williams; 1989 Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

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• The Outside Dog (Charlotte Pomerantz Illustrated by Jennifer Plecas; 1995 Harper Collins)

Suggested Side Dishes:

• How Smudge Came (Nan Gregory Illustrated by Ron Lightburn; 1998 Red Deer Press)
• The Stray Dog (Marc Simont; 2003 Harper Collins)
• “Let’s Get a PUP!” said Kate (Bob Graham; 2003 Candlewick Press)
• A Very Unusual Dog (Dorothy Joan Harris & Kim LaFave; 2006 Scholastic)
• Hank and Fergus (Susin Nielsen-Fernlund & Louise-Andree Laliberte; 2003 Orca Books)

Our first child was a dog — a spunky border collie/black lab named Pepper – and we loved her.

A child and a half later, though, with me eight months pregnant, Mark suddenly “between jobs”, major home renovations underway and an energetic twenty month old to chase after, something had to give and that something, unfortunately, was Pepper.

There were tears all around when we said good-bye to our beloved pooch but our then twenty-month-old daughter rebounded beautifully. And that, we thought, was the end of that.

We thought wrong.

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[tags]Amigo, Byrd Baylor, Garth Williams, Dayal Kaur Khalsa, I Want a Dog, The Outside Dog, Charlotte Pomerantz, Jennifer Plecas, children’s books, literacy, picture books, reading, Andrea Ross, Swimming in Literary Soup[/tags]