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Parent Guide

SEPT/OCT 2020

Teaching kindness while
helping to instill good
reading habits in children.

BOOK NOOK
KIND TIME

In this issue we’re all Sad, the Dog
about personality. Written by
We’ll take a personality Sandy Fussell
quiz, meet cool Recommended for
Claude the parrot, ages 3-7
and learn what
makes him tick. A clever little dog
We’ll also examine christens himself “Sad”
the secret lives of when his humans fail to give him a name.
bugs, hear a kitten Although they feed him and wash him,
rescue story, and they don’t appreciate his many gifts, like
see how one boy his love of singing (“stop that yapping!”).
took his idea for When the people move away and leave
change all the way to Sad behind, Sad is heartbroken. But then
the Kentucky statehouse! a new family with a young boy arrives at
Sad’s house in a big truck. Although Sad
is initially frightened, it soon becomes
RedRover.org/Readers clear that the boy is just the right person
to make a dog’s life complete with
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readings of animal- this joyful tale, which reminds young
themed stories with readers to appreciate themselves and
kids? We discuss the ones — human or otherwise — who
animal body language, depend on them.
animal and human BOOK SUMMARY FROM AMAZON.COM.
emotions, and friend- COPYRIGHT: SAD, THE DOG. TEXT © 2015 BY SANDY FUSSELL.
ILLUSTRATIONS © 2015 BY TULL SUWANNAKIT. REPRODUCED BY
ship between people PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER, CANDLEWICK PRESS, SOMERVILLE,
and animals. Learn MA ON BEHALF OF WALKER BOOKS, AUSTRALIA.
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