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Favorite Dog Books from our childhood

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1owenre
Mar 4, 2008, 10:44 pm

I loved Where the Red Fern Grows but oh! how I cried at the end.
Did anyone else have a favorite dog story?

2ktleyed
Editado: Mar 10, 2008, 7:18 pm

Lad: a dog wins hands down for me. I think it was the first book I cried over. I read it in 4th grade. And then I read all his Sunnybank books.

3lauralkeet
Mar 5, 2008, 3:19 pm

Floss is one that I like a lot. It's not from my childhood, but is a book I picked up about 5 years ago, when my own kids were younger. It's the story of a border collie who is a family dog that moves to the country to become a working sheepdog.

4maggie1944
Mar 6, 2008, 10:47 am

I have very fond memories of reading Red Fern to a 5th-6th grade class and as I approached the end I was crying so much one of the kids offered to read the last few pages, and I said yes.

A very sweet book and a nice shared experience for the class and me.

More up to day, I love Marley and Me.

5laytonwoman3rd
Mar 7, 2008, 3:35 pm

The Sailor Dog (Scuppers), a Little Golden Book.
Loved the story, loved the illustrations.

6pollysmith
Mar 9, 2008, 7:35 pm

I always loved the story of "The Poky Little Puppy"

I also had a book called Beautiful Joe that I read many many times

7katylit
Mar 10, 2008, 5:46 pm

ktleyed, you beat me to it, Albert Payson Terhune's books were always my favourite dog stories and Lad, a dog the best of the bunch, but Wolf and Grey Dawn were close seconds. Farley Mowat wrote a great book too called The Dog Who Wouldn't Be that I read many times when I was younger.

I devoured dog books when I was a kid, couldn't get enough of them.

8FAMeulstee
Mar 11, 2008, 11:02 am

oh, that is Leon by Helen Griffiths!

9Copperskye
Maio 13, 2008, 10:15 pm

Lad, A Dog and all of Terhune's other Sunnybank stories and also Beautiful Joe which I read over and over.

10ChelseaB-ley
Editado: Maio 16, 2008, 10:02 pm

My favorite dog books are Shiloh (all three) and Where the Red Fern Grows. I also like Shelter Dogs.

Touchstones are crazy.

11caroline123
Maio 26, 2008, 12:19 am

I also read Lad, a Dog as a young girl and remember how deeply it affected me. I cried for quite a while.

12Booksloth
Maio 26, 2008, 8:29 am

#6 Omigod! The Poky Little Puppy! I'd forgotten all about that! Wonderful!

From my childhood it has to be The Incredible Journey. And The Puppy With Plush Paws . . . . waits . . . . okay - nothing from touchstones. I don't know who it was by but I remember having it on more or less permanent loan from the local library between the ages of 8 and 11. Anybody else know who wrote it? I think I'm going to go off to Name that Book now to check it out.

From my children's childhoods - the Whatamess books by Frank Muir.

13cynthiadogmom
Maio 27, 2008, 11:21 pm

When I was small, my father got me three books that he had as a child, and to this day they are my among my favorites: Angus and the Ducks, Angus and the Cat, and Angus Lost - all by Marjorie Flack. Angus was, of course, a Scottish Terrier. These were originally published in the 1930's, so there are a few things children today may find strange - like Angus following the horse-drawn milk delivery wagon to find his way home when he gets lost. The illustrations are wonderful.

My other favorite dog book was Go, Dog, Go! by P. D. Eastman - at least according to my mother. I had to have that read to me every night. She was always tickled when she got to the part where the dogs all stopped their cars and ran - "To the tree! To the tree!!"

14ChelseaB-ley
Jun 1, 2008, 8:45 pm

I also remember these books about a little white dog, but I can't remember his name. One book was about how his owners had a baby. He owners loved him a lot and he liked to run through flowers. Can't remember the title...

15Booksloth
Jun 2, 2008, 6:21 am

Can't believe none of us have mentioned A Hundred and One Dalmations yet!

16davedonelson
Jun 2, 2008, 6:39 am

Guess I'm probably showing my age, but I thought Penrod and Sam was just about the funniest book imaginable. Now that I mention it, I think I have a copy somewhere--better get it in my library. :)

17cynthiadogmom
Jun 4, 2008, 10:01 pm

>14 ChelseaB-ley: Could that be McDuff, the westie? I found those books in the children's book area while searching for the Angus books. I bought McDuff and the Baby for my newborn niece, and ended up buying an extra for myself.

18Booksloth
Jun 5, 2008, 7:30 am

Oh I love people who buy books for newborn babies. Whenever I do this there's always someone who accuses me of being mad, or who points out, very sarcastically, that the child won't be able to read yet (ha ha). What a great start in life! In some homes (and I'm certainly not suggesting your niece's is one) it may be the only book they ever get. I bought my first child Winnie the Pooh about four months before he was born! (And I think we can all guess who really wanted to read that one.)

19davedonelson
Jun 5, 2008, 5:26 pm

This may be a little off topic, but I always made it a practice to buy a book for every niece and nephew as well as my own kids for Christmas every year (usually along with something else so I didn't acquire a total reputation as Uncle Boring). My kids today still get one (they're both in their 30's) and are voracious readers. I had the very sad experience, though, of having two sister-in-laws tell me not to bother when their kids got to be about 12. Isn't that a shame?
On the other hand, I have two nieces, 10 and 11, who both proudly brought me the first drafts of the novels they were writing! That made me very happy indeed.
Dave Donelson, author of Heart of Diamonds

20QueenOfDenmark
Jun 5, 2008, 5:39 pm

I loved the Whatamess books when I was younger.

I always buy books for other people's new babies too (and I get the look or the sarcasm too) but I don't care.

When I was pregnant the first time we went right out and bought the two most essential things any new baby needs: a rocking reindeer and a copy of The Finn Family Moomintroll.

I like to get something I don't expect anyone else to buy, even if they choose a book. My nephew has been my most successful reading convert to date, so he is the one in line to inherit my library as long as he keeps on reading.

21cynthiadogmom
Jun 5, 2008, 10:41 pm

>18 Booksloth: My niece and nephews have doting grandparents and lots more aunts and uncles to buy them toys. I don't see them much as I live about 500 miles away - haven't been down to visit in 4+ years, actually - so books and calendars are my usual Xmas gifts, along with a $20 bill sandwiched inside.

A newer children's book that I picked up is Walter the Farting Dog. Didn't really care much for the artwork (it's a collage kind of style), but the story is cute.

22Booksloth
Jun 6, 2008, 7:23 am

I still have very fond memories of one Xmas when I was about five or six years old and my grandparents bought me a copy of The Waterbabies. I spent the entire day behind the sofa reading (I reread it not long ago and thought it one of the most sanctimonious bits of drivel I've ever read, but I was very young at the time). I absolutely adored my grandparents and I'm sure at least some of that has to do with the fact that they were always the ones who gave me books and also, on the whole, the ones who never tired of reading to me. We HAVE to carry on the tradition with our own small relatives.

23ChelseaB-ley
Jun 16, 2008, 2:40 pm

#17 Yes, that's it! I loved those books.

When I have kids and nieces and nephews, I will give them lots of books. Especially my own kids. I hope they will be great readers and have a love for reading like I do.

24ljreader
Jun 17, 2008, 1:31 am

I loved All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. I liked all his books, which I read when was about 9 or 10. Although his books were about his stories as a country vet, and included many other animals other then dogs, I really loved them. Some current childrens books that I've gotten for my Neices are Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by Jane O'Connor and Sheetzucacapoopoo: My Kind of Dog by Joy Behar. She really enjoyed them as did I.

25cynthiadogmom
Jun 17, 2008, 11:15 pm

You can get all dogs, all the time, in James Herriot's Dog Stories - I've worn out two copies of them and am on my third.

26ljreader
Jun 18, 2008, 2:29 am

cynthiadogmom thank you so much. I don't remember if I read that book in my youth, I don't believe so. I'm heading to Barnes and Noble tomorrow..thanks again

27cynthiadogmom
Jun 18, 2008, 9:37 pm

The collection is probably pulled from other books he wrote - repackaged for the dog lovers. I personally wouldn't be interested in reading about farm animals, but dogs? I'm there!

28phlegmmy
Jul 7, 2008, 5:02 pm

I still have a copy of Lad, a Dog, and I have loved Bull Terriers ever since I read Incredible Journey as a kid. It's the reason I now own a Bull Terrier.

29Papagaio
Jul 11, 2008, 9:55 am

Go Dog Go
by P D Eastman

is my favorite!

30Papagaio
Jul 11, 2008, 9:55 am

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31mmignano11
Jul 19, 2008, 10:17 pm

I, too, purchase books for the children in the family. For my own girls, they get books for birthdays and Christmas. I have to confess that I enjoy picking out books for them so much they can always count on getting books from me and their Dad. I try to select books that are keepsakish, noteable for their photography, maybe what they are interested in at the moment or have been interested in all their life. All three of them have put their dibs on my cookbooks, which I write comments in after trying the recipes, who helped me, how they were received, how to vary the recipe for a better result, the date prepared. I love that they cherish the books for the fact that I have written in them, and it almost makes me want to cook! Sometimes I choose non-fiction, sometimes fantasy, sometimes I select a book for their illustrations. I try to match the book to the person, naturally, but I guess a new experience can help to define a new element in their personality. So, don't think for a moment that a book as a gift is not a great idea. Unfortunately, there are some dunderheads that do not appreciate the literary world, which is exactly why the recipient needs you in their life to feed that hunger for knowledge that they are being deprived of by their well-intentioned but often mis-guided parents.

32mmignano11
Jul 19, 2008, 10:18 pm

Let me just add that the recipient certainly is not necessarily a child, in the case of my gift-giving.

33phlegmmy
Ago 9, 2008, 5:57 am

I have always been the one to buy books for the kids in our family. My parents always had a lot of books for us and I loved it. So when my brothers had kids, my folks got their grandchildren practical stuff like clothes and their parents got them toys and things so I always got them books. I do it now with my grandson. I made a point that whenever I am in a bookstore, I buy him a book to keep at our house and he is only 17 months old. Right now we're in the board book stage but I have already thought that I would start buying him YA books right now to keep for later.

I had an interesting thing happen the other day. A good friend's daughter just graduated from high school and her parents read to her every day of her life from the moment she was born when she was little. I often gave her books. One of the ones I gave her I still have a copy of. Hubert the Caterpillar Who Thought He Was a Moustache At her graduation party she showed me a senior notebook that was part of an assignment. One of the things she had to do was right a report about her favorite childhood book and she chose Hubert. So when people look askance at your gift of books to a small child, remember that sometimes that gift has a very longlasting effect on the life of a child. I was so proud when she showed me that I almost cried.

34cynthiadogmom
Set 1, 2008, 2:06 pm

I found a neat book at the odd lots store yesterday: Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog, by Sara Swan Miller. Really cute. I can just picture my niece reading this to her Bonnie.

35maggie1944
Set 1, 2008, 2:57 pm

Not a childhood favorite of mine, but a favorite to show children: Good Dog, Carl.

36gennyt
Maio 27, 2011, 5:54 pm

Harry the Dirty Dog was a favourite picture book when I was little.

37rxtheresa
Editado: Maio 30, 2011, 4:29 pm

I loved Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight. I've been wanting to write children's books about my doggies so my mother sent me a book from the Fairy Tails series called Sleeping Beauty. that she saw and liked. The photography is great!
I just checked on PBS and there are 2 others in this series available, Snow White and Cinderella.

38hyenaboy
Jun 10, 2011, 10:44 pm

I see a lot of my favourites here, but my most prized book when I was younger was Only One Woof by James Herriot. :)

39DocWood
Jun 11, 2011, 8:29 am

I had scads and loved them all, but when I saw your question the two that came immediately to mind were Old Yeller and Savage Sam. Sorry I can't choose--they're tied for first!

The Albert Payson Terhunes of course were wonderful, too. I loved every one! (I didn't read Where the Red Fern Grows until I got to high school, which is probably just as well. I cried like a baby then: Had I read it earlier it probably would have traumatized me.)

I know LibraryThing isn't about movies, but. When I was a tiny child, it was The Lady and the Tramp.

40foggidawn
Jun 25, 2011, 9:00 pm

I loved The Poky Little Puppy, but my favorites were the Pinkerton books by Steven Kellogg: Pinkerton, Behave!, A Rose for Pinkerton, Tallyho, Pinkerton! . . . I loved them, and would pretend to be Pinkerton sometimes (I also pretended to be a small white dog named Kippy, but I can't remember if Kippy was from a book or from my own imagination).

When I was in 6th grade, we read Where the Red Fern Grows, and of course I cried over it, but I loved it. I didn't read a lot of the sad dog books (or if I did, I have suppressed those memories!), but I remember liking Judge Benjamin: Superdog, which was a funny book about a St. Bernard (sort of along the lines of Beethoven, I think). And I love the book No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman, which parodies the trend of dog books that end unhappily.

41sarahy
Jun 26, 2011, 9:00 am

i loved the "Carl" books with he black lab like Carl Goes To Daycare by Alexandra Day. I forget them mostly, but they were a lot of fun as a little kid.

#40- I also loved the Pinkerton books. I had forgotten all about those!!

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