Sashi and the Puppy Mill Girl by Linda Greiner
Illustrated by Morgan Spicer.
(Brown Books Kids, 2016)
Illustrated by Morgan Spicer.
(Brown Books Kids, 2016)
A fast-paced story about breed rescue filled with charming drawings.
Sashi, the bossy Sheltie, lives with a liitle girl named Anna and her mother who fosters Shelties. Cinnamon arrives as a dirty and frightened foster. The story explains what a puppy mill is and how fostering and adoption works with an emphasis on the patience needed for rehabilitation. Fostering is defined as "helping dogs find a home where they will be loved forever and ever."
The "For the Adult Reader" page discuses choosing a family dog from a rescue.
Sashi, the bossy Sheltie, lives with a liitle girl named Anna and her mother who fosters Shelties. Cinnamon arrives as a dirty and frightened foster. The story explains what a puppy mill is and how fostering and adoption works with an emphasis on the patience needed for rehabilitation. Fostering is defined as "helping dogs find a home where they will be loved forever and ever."
The "For the Adult Reader" page discuses choosing a family dog from a rescue.
A picture book for 5 - 8 year old children, kindergarten through 3rd
grade.
Linda
Grainer adopted the real Sashi in 2001 from the Shetland Sheepdog Placement
Services of New Jersey and started fostering in 2003. She is the author of two previous Sashi books. A
portion of sales from Sashi benefit SSPSNJ.
Morgan Spicer, a self-proclaimed dog-and-cat-lady, hopes to one day open an animal sanctuary and rescue where she will continue to educate youth about the importance of compassion and the magic of animal companionship.
Morgan Spicer, a self-proclaimed dog-and-cat-lady, hopes to one day open an animal sanctuary and rescue where she will continue to educate youth about the importance of compassion and the magic of animal companionship.
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The Shelter Pet Squad series
by Cynthia Lord. Illustrated by Erin McGuire.
(Scholastic Press, 2014, 2015, 2016)
A series of three (so far) short chapter books about 7-year-old
Suzannah, who can't have a pet - but desperately wants one. She volunteers at
her local animal shelter and becomes part of the shelter ‘s Pet Squad, a group
of children who learn about animals, make toys, and have fun caring for the
shelter animals.
The first in the series features “JellyBean” the guinea pig. The second is about a ferret named “Merlin” and the third stars “Paloma” a satos puppy from Puerto Rico.
Each book encourages volunteering and friendship, explains how shelters
work, and stresses the need to understand the type of animal you adopt. They
include suggestions how children can help shelter animals in their own area,
craft projects to make toys, and advice for caring for a pet and help your
local shelter. Each one asks the child to sign a Pledge to become an Honorary
Shelter Pet Squad Member.
Especially fun for 7-10 year old children, 2nd - 5th
grade.
Cynthia
Lord is a prolific award-winning children’s author of many books about animals and pets as well as Rules, a Newbery Honor Book. Lord is a shelter
volunteer, works in a writing shed, and has a collection of rubber duckies, as
well as Milo her dog, Cookie the guinea pig, and two bunnies.
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