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Theme: Dogs
Together
Have you ever noticed how being with your best friend makes your day brighter? Mousse and Nut have! They love walking together, playing together, and laughing together.Everything is wonderful—until they start to notice there are some things they just can’t do together. Can Mousse and Nut really be friends when they’re so different?Of course they [...]
Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Fantasy, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Best friend, Friendship, Love Leave a comment
Hunted
Brind, who was raised with Sir Edmund’s pack of hunting dogs, is the huntsman of Dowe Manor. Together with his best friend, the mastiff Glaive, and the rest of the pack, he protects Sir Edmund, Lady Beatrice, and their foster daughter, Aurélie. But suddenly a tragedy strikes, one that Brind cannot prevent. In a fit [...]
Descriptors: Database Other Themes: Best friend, Death, Elves, Family, Grief, Soldiers, Survival Leave a comment
The Three Snow Bears
Aloo-ki glances up from fishing and sees her sled dogs floating off on an ice floe. She races after them and comes upon an igloo. Being a curious girl, she goes inside only to find no one home. That’s because the polar bear family who lives there is out walking while their breakfast cools off. [...]
Surrender
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finningan.
Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Oceania, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Other Themes: Brothers, City and town life, Family problems Comments closed
Selvakumar Knew Better
When a giant tsunami approaches his village, seven-year-old Dinakaran is saved by the family dog. Based on a true story; includes facts about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, India, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: India, Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 Comments closed
Why Do I Have To Eat Off The Floor?
Why can’t I sleep in your bed? Why can’t I drive the car? Why can’t we play all the time? These seemingly innocent questions, the kind usually asked by a child to an adult, take on a wildly humorous twist when addressed to a child by her dog, Murphy! The minimalist text and succinct illustrations, [...]
Samsara Dog
Dog lived each life as it came, until he learned the most important lesson of all. Based on Buddhist concepts of Samsara and Nirvana, it tells a story about love, life, death and dying.
Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Oceania, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Buddism, Death, Reincarnation Comments closed
Moi & Marie Antoinette
Sebastien relates the life of Marie Antoinette as she goes from being a teenager devoted to him, her pug dog, to becoming the Queen of France and mother to two children.
Descriptors: Europe, France, Historical Fiction, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Pets Comments closed
Polo: The Runaway Book
While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people. Wordless Book
Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, France, Primary (Gr. K-3) Other Themes: Extraterrestrial beings, Wordless Comments closed
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
City of Dogs