Independent Reading Level: K-1
Awards: 2000-2001 GA Picturebook Nominee

This is a great book to use with younger readers. It does not have many words, however the pictures are amazing and give you more information than the text does. It is also a very relatable story, even for our young readers.

I've read this twice, and I think it's because I love the illustrations so much. A child has lost her dog in the desert. As the story is told on the right about the child's attempts to find the dog over the course of a month, very realistic by the way, on the left page we see what is actually happening to the dog. Sometimes it's quite sad. I don't really know the point of the story (and it doesn't have to have one, certainly), but I don't even know to whom I'd recommend it. I guess it's like the movie "Homeward Bound." ( )

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