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ELVIS AND THE WORLD AS IT STANDS

By TJ August 10, 2021Books, Cat Adoption, Cats, Dogs, Fiction, Middle-Grade, Pets

Love, love, love this new middle-grade novel! ELVIS AND THE THE WORLD AS IT STANDS by Lisa Frenkel Riddiough with sweetly evocative illustrations by Olivia Chin Mueller stars Elvis, a kitten, who is adopted from a shelter in the San Francisco Bay area during a special Fourth of July…

Review of WAYWARD CREATURES by Dayna Lorentz

By TJ June 12, 2021Books, Fiction, Middle-Grade, Wild Animals

This sweet middle-grade novel doesn't publish until January, but I read an advance copy and loved it so much, I just have to write about it now! It's one of the first novels I've read that encourages the reader to empathize with a coyote, and for that it is…

Holiday Gift List

By TJ December 5, 2020Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Fiction, Horses, Marine Animals, Memoir, Middle-Grade, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Teens, Wild Animals

Books that make a perfect present for the animal lover!

A DOG’S PERFECT CHRISTMAS by W. Bruce Cameron

By TJ November 28, 2020Dogs, Fiction1 Comment

You can always rely on W. Bruce Cameron for a heartwarming story with compelling characters - both animal and human - and a happy ending. We knew we would love A DOG'S PERFECT CHRISTMAS, which we read in one evening.

Story-Time with Irina: SAUCY by Cynthia Kadohata and SKUNK AND BADGER by Amy Timberlake

By TJ September 26, 2020Books, Fiction, Middle-Grade

We LOVED Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata! Saucy is a middle-grade novel (ages 8 on up) about a pig named Saucy - who is very saucy indeed! - and her family.

Story Time with Irina: A WHALE OF THE WILD, by Rosanne Parry

By TJ September 1, 2020Books, Fiction, Marine Animals, Middle-Grade, Wild Animals

We just finished this fun, adventurous, and very enlightening kids' book (ages 8-12) called A Whale of the Wild, written by Rosanne Parry and illustrated by Lindsay Moore. It's about two orcas (we've heard some call them "killer whales" but they don't seem that scary to us) - a sister, Vega, and her little brother, Deneb.

Irina the Belgian Marshmallow

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Dog Adoption, Dogs, Fiction, Personal, Romance

Well, 2019 ended up being crazy busy but hugely productive for me. After Rhea passed away at the end of 2018 I fell into a bad depression. She'd been with me for so much of my adult life, from New York to California to Arizona, and losing her hit…

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…