The Last Puppy-Frank Asch August 19, 2007
Frank Asch is probably best known in elementary libraries for his Moonbear series and the students at my school seem to gravitate towards them more than his other titles. But I don’t read Moonbear to students. I read The Last Puppy. It’s the rare child who doesn’t feel the sadness of “…the last of Momma’s nine puppies”, “…the last to open my eyes.”, “…the last puppy.” This, until a little boy saves us all by saying: “You know what? You’re my first puppy.” Yea! Happy ending! It had to be! Now, we all know children relate to little helpless creatures. (I sometimes think if I read another children’s book about mice, I’ll start squeaking.) Frank Asch brings us this helplessness and then leads on to a very clever conclusion.
The Last Puppy
Written and Illustrated by Frank Asch
Accelerated Reader RL 2.1
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