A Dog’s True Purpose, Are You My Mom & Teaching Tricks

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A Dog’s True Purpose, Are You My Mom & Teaching Tricks

March 9, 2013

 

A Dog's Purpose

by W. Bruce Cameron

This incredibly unique tear-jerker suggests that perhaps a dog should be reincarnated several times until it reaches it’s full life’s purpose. Written completely from the five dog’s incarnations, this book is impossible to put down—except to grab the Kleenex.

 

Written by a New York Times bestselling author, this clever read proposes that a dog’s true purpose is to be reborn several times. Told first hand from each of five incarnations, each dog’s story will grab you and hold on to your heartstrings. Unabashedly sentimental, the story follows Toby, Bailey, Ellie and finally, Buddy, a black Lab whose ability to love and protect brings to light the dog and the book’s final purpose.

   

 

 

 

Are You My Mother?

by P.D. Eastman

This gentle book is a perfect selection for mothers and grandmothers to snuggle that child onto their laps have a good old fashioned read. While mother bird is out searching for food her egg hatches and the newborn baby bird sets off in search of Momma. Only problem is, what does Momma look like? Baby bird’s search leads him to ask, “Are you my mother?” of an array of animals and even machines—including a crane..

 

This is the 25th anniversary edition of a book that little ones will want to hear again and again.

   

 

 

 

101 Dog Tricks: Step by Step Activities to Engage, Challenge, and Bond with Your Dog

by Kyra Sundance and Chalcy

101 Dog Tricks is, simply put, chock full o’tricks.

 

Featuring straightforward, step-by-step training methods with accompanying full-color photos, 101 Dog Tricks allows you to start training immediately.

 

Streamlined and to the point, this common sense approach is full of tips and trouble-shooting boxes to help you with the most common problems. “Build-on” ideas show how more complicated tricks can be achieved after the basic skills have been mastered. Trick training is a bonding experience and helps to keep your dog mentally and physically challenged.

Not to mention, you’ll get to know performing pups, Kyra and Chalcy who share their secrets on nearly every page.

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Suggested Reading

 

 

The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

by Amy Walton

 

The Dog Who Danced

by Susan Wilson

 

 

 

 

Three Stories You Can Read To Your Dog

by Sara Swan Miller

 

CLEO: The Cat Who Mended A Family

by Helen Brown

 

 

 

 

The Cat In Art

by Stefano Zuffi

 

Old Friends: Great Dogs on the Good Life

by Mark J. Asher

 

 

 

 

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