About This Book:
A heartwarming picture book about a stray dog’s journey to finding his forever home.
A little stray dog wanders the streets alone, afraid of everything he comes across—loud city noises, getting caught in the cold rain, and bigger dogs that fight for scraps. He doesn’t like it!
And he especially doesn’t like it when he gets caught by animal rescue and is forced to be cleaned and scrubbed. But everything changes when a family chooses him to take home, helping him slowly discover all the things he does like—playing fetch, eating delicious food, and being loved forever.
Through rich art and sparse text, debut author-illustrator Yuko Torii shows how to be grateful for every step of life’s journey.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Heartwarming Book about Pet Adoption
This has just the right amount of words for a read aloud, and I can see this becoming a fast favorite; just be careful about reading it too many times if you DON’T want to adopt a dog! While not in rhyme, this has a good rhythm, and reads aloud very smoothly. I read it to my dog several times!
There are a good number of books about rescue dogs that have been published, but some of my favorites are Thompson’s A Family for Louie, Boelts and Walker’s Before You Were Mine, Cummings’ Can I Be Your Dog?, Jones’ Perdue, and Guojing’s wordless picture book, Stormy: A Story about Finding a Forever Home.
