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Summary: Donna's Review
Review: Stay! was a very good book, but it probable wasn't my favorite. I would give it four stars.
The characters are Keeper, Emily, Wispy, Christopher and Emily's mom. The main character was Keeper.
The book was about a dog who lived in many different places and with many different people. When he was a puppy he lived in a lot with his mother, his brothers, and his sister. At the end of his life he ends up with the perfect family. Find out who it is.
This book is worth reading if you are a parent and want to read it to your child.
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Summary: From one reader to another
Review: This is a delightful tale about a dog named Keeper. The story is narrated by Keeper from a dog's point of view. He takes us back to when he was just a puppy born behind a restaurant and separated from his brothers and sisters and eventually his mother. All alone, Keeper sets out to find his family, especially his sister Wispy. His journey is filled with adventure that puts him in different situations. He becomes a homless man's companion, a photographer's model, and a little girl's pet. It is also peppered with danger as Keeper makes and eventually fights his enemy Scar a tough, mean dog from the streets. It is not without its tender moments either as Keeper and his long lost sister Wispy are eventuallly reunited! If you love dogs you'll love this story. Even if you don't I think you will enjoy it all the same. It is a story for all ages and tastes. So "stay" and read for awhile!
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Summary: for ages 8-10, or 30, or 50...
Review: This is one of those amazing children's books that would entertain a young person and an adult equally well. There are "good stewardship" messages all through it -- the plight of homeless animals, the way to take care of a dog. There are funny little asides that may pass over the heads of its young audience, but will make adults chuckle. There's even a little poetry-completion as Keeper the dog writes sweet little couplets but struggles to find a rhyming word:"Unbidden, new poetry came to me:
'Upright, my tail! Forward, my legs!
'I think I smell some ham and biscuits!
'No, of course it had to be EGGS! I began to see how poetry worked." Keeper is a delightful dog, commonsensical and poetic at once, loyal forever to his mother and his sister Wispy. (I have always wondered whether dogs truly DO forget their birth families. In this story, they don't.) He faces many challenges along the way but his story has a happy ending that fits just perfectly into the book. Although I might be a few decades older than the intended audience, this is one of the best books I've read in a lonnnnngggg time! See for yourself, even if there are no young people in your home!
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Summary: for ages 8-10, or 30, or 50...
Review: This is one of those amazing children's books that would entertain a young person and an adult equally well. There are "good stewardship" messages all through it -- the plight of homeless animals, the way to take care of a dog. There are funny little asides that may pass over the heads of its young audience, but will make adults chuckle. There's even a little poetry-completion as Keeper the dog writes sweet little couplets but struggles to find a rhyming word: "Unbidden, new poetry came to me:
'Upright, my tail! Forward, my legs!
'I think I smell some ham and biscuits!
'No, of course it had to be EGGS! I began to see how poetry worked." Keeper is a delightful dog, commonsensical and poetic at once, loyal forever to his mother and his sister Wispy. (I have always wondered whether dogs truly DO forget their birth families. In this story, they don't.) He faces many challenges along the way but his story has a happy ending that fits just perfectly into the book. Although I might be a few decades older than the intended audience, this is one of the best books I've read in a lonnnnngggg time! See for yourself, even if there are no young people in your home!
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