Showing posts with label Animal rescue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animal rescue. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Lions' Run by Sara Pennypacker illustrated by Jon Klassen

›
Compassionate and complex. Kirkus Star review Occupied France, 1944. Lucas Dubois lives in an abbey orphanage. There are rule and constraint...
Monday, March 2, 2026

The Boy and the Dog Tree by Fiona Wood illustrated by Judy Watson

›
"You desire to know why I have come to you. It is simply this: when called upon by a child in need I emerge from the tree ... Your sadn...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Dingo's Dream by Helen Milroy

›
Bookseller blurb:  There is someone in distress, but who? Dingo checks on everyone in his community but they're all fine. He mounts a se...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Song of a Thousand Seas by Zana Fraillon

›
Days are for watching listening playing planning but nights are for adventure Houdini the octopus is a girl but in the world of this book, w...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Odder: An Otter's story by Katherine Applegate illustrated by Charles Santoso

›
Many older readers will have met Odder via the verse novel with the same title by Katherine Applegate. That book has 270 pages. It is fairly...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Lotus and Feather by Ji-Li Jiang illustrated by Julie Downing

›
Lotus has been unwell, and her illness has taken her voice away. The other children no longer invite her to play. She lives with her kind, w...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Mouse and his Dog by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko illustrated by Wallace West

›
"A heart is a muscle. It gets stronger the more you use it." Think about this:  dogs + robots + shedding a few tears + a happy end...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Scout and the Rescue Dogs by Dianne Wolfer

›
Scout's mum has died and because her dad is a long-distance truck driver, Scout is now at boarding school. As is often the way with boar...