SUMMARY: A child wants a pet, any kind of pet. She wants a different pet other than her puppy. The child goes through all different kinds of pets and what they do. Some of the pets mentioned were birds, rabbits, lizards, spiders, lions, dragons and more. She then realizes that the pet that she wants is her puppy.

REVIEW: This book would be a good book to have in the classroom as a read aloud book to teach appreciation. Its central idea it to appreciate what you have, because other things are not always better than what you have. I think the moral of the story is one that can be useful in the classroom and can lead to the students doing a project or lesson on something that they appreciate, such as their families, pets, exc.