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HOW TO BE A GOOD CREATURE by Sy Montgomery

By TJ June 9, 2020Arachnids, Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Marine Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction, Wild Animals

Love, love, love this book! It's an essential addition to any animal lover's book collection! Naturalist Sy Montgomery is one of my favorite nonfiction writers, and this wonderful memoir is a collection of homages to animals she's loved throughout her life - both those she's lived with as family,…

THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dogs, Fiction

I recently listened to the audio book version of this novel, after it won the 2018 National Book Award for fiction. It was billed as a book about a woman mourning the loss of her friend to suicide by caring for his Great Dane, whom she inherits. I often…

Cruel Candy: A Cozy Corgi Mystery, Book 1

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dogs, Fiction

We received a recommendation of this book from Amazon, who seemed to know just what we needed right now: a cute cozy mystery featuring an endearing animal co-sleuth :) Cruel Candy is the first of many books in Mildred Abbott's Cozy Corgi series. Main character, 38-year-old Fred (short for…

LOUISIANA’S WAY HOME by Kate DiCamillo

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Fiction, Middle-Grade

Lovely book we discovered the other day at the Chandler Public Library. LOUISIANA'S WAY HOME by one of our favorite middle-grade authors, Kate DiCamillo, tells the story of Louisiana Elefante, a young girl whose parents have died and who is living with her grandmother. One day, her granny insists…

A Couple More Beautiful Picture Books: LOST IN THE LIBRARY and LADYBUG GIRL AND THE RESCUE DOGS

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dogs, Fiction, Picture Books

A couple more beautiful picture books I picked up at the recent Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators conference in Arizona. LOST IN THE LIBRARY tells the sweet story of the lions who sit guard in front of the main library in New York. In real life, of course,…

Review of A DOG’S WAY HOME by W. Bruce Cameron

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dogs, Fiction

e absolutely loved this book, and were so happy to be able to meet W. Bruce Cameron at the Best Friends National Conference over the summer, which is where we got a copy of A Dog's Way Home. Above, our very dog-like cat, Rhea, who is always at my…

Two Lovely Picture Books: RESCUE & JESSICA and BEFORE YOU WERE MINE

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dogs, Fiction, Picture Books

We bought these beautiful picture books while at the Best Friends National Conference two weeks ago. The first, Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, written by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes is based on a true story. In the book, Rescue, a service dog, befriends Jessica, a double-amputee. The…

Review of THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON by Kelly Barnhill

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Fiction, Middle-Grade

Normally, I focus on books about or starring animals as main characters, but this middle-grade novel was too brilliant to pass up! And, it has a couple of fantastical animals - a sweet little dragon named Fyrion, and an equally endearing huge swamp creature named Glerk. Both characters stole…

Review, DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction

I can't believe I hadn't read this memoir when it first came out in 2008! I'd somehow missed it, but found an updated edition from 2017 on kindle and just finished reading it as an ebook. This version has some added later content, updating us on the lives of…

Best Friends Animal Society National Conference 2018!

By TJ June 9, 2020Animal Activism, Animal Rescues, Animal Sanctuaries, Books, Cats, Conferences, Dogs, Fiction, Nonfiction

Note: originally posted July 2018 before this site was updated. Just got back from the Best Friends National Conference and I am so invigorated and inspired and amazed at all the good work being done out there on behalf of animals! It was my first time at this convention…