By Lisa Cohn Parents and teachers, kids’ dog books are a great choice for summer reading–whether you’re reading to a preschooler or choosing books for young readers. Kids love dog books because they’re almost always silly and elicit lots of laughs. And that means kids like to read them again
This blog is sponsored by the natural pet care company I and love and you , which backed the Kickstarter that will help pay for our next kids’ dog book! Boy-and-dog mysteries are 5-year-old Michael’s favorite books. He loves to guess how the boy-and-dog detectives will solve the mysteries. What’s more, these
Thanks to the support of our Kickstarter backers and our 5-year-old co-author’s enthusiasm, we’re ready to begin writing our second kids’ dog book in the “Bash and Lucy” series. To help raise funds, our young co-author, Michael, sold books at the NW Pet Fair, handed out flyers to local businesses
In our award-winning book, “Bash And Lucy Fetch Confidence,” a wise but mischievous Golden Retriever instills confidence in the boys on a soccer team. Our “Bash and Lucy” book is the recipient of a Mom’s Choice Silver Award and a 2013 USA Best Book Award. As the book’s authors, we
Parents, your child can be a character like this one in our new dog book when you back our Kickstarter project, which aims to inspire young writers and dog lovers! In fact, Patrick just became our first Kickstarter backer to choose this reward, which means his daughter, Paula, will be
The kids have spoken! During our “Write, Publish, Publicize An Award-Winning Book” Skype in the Classroom lesson, we added, almost as an afterthought, an exercise during which we asked kids to help us brainstorm ideas for our next children’s book. Over and over, the students have told us that’s their
“Are we going to Skype with some classes today?” Michael often asks when he wakes. “It’s so much fun!” We’ve been touched, inspired, moved, educated and delighted by our Skype in the Classroom experiences, during which we teach kids about writing and publishing and ask them for ideas for our
As “World Read Aloud Day” (WRAD) advocates and big believers in the benefits of reading aloud, we wrote a piece for LitWorld.org, a non-profit literacy organization that aims to “foster resilience, hope and joy through the power of story.” You can read it here: Singing Book Reviews, Potty Training and
Trust me. We never expected that writing our own kids’ dog book would lead us to write songs about kids’ books. Like much of our journey–beginning with the death a year ago of our dear dog, Lucy–our adventure has followed the passions of 5-year-old Michael. It all began the other
Michael, our 5-year-old co-author and YouTube book reviewer, loves to do Scooby-Doo book reviews. He has read dozens of these kids’ dog books, and is in the midst of reviewing many of them on his YouTube Channel. That’s why we’ve created a new playlist just for Scooby-Doo Book Reviews, and