My favorite childhood book
Rating:
5 / 5
Loved this book as a kid. I read it and read it and read it until the book literally fell apart. Great one for young readers who are looking for a nice book to read that they will treasure for a long time. This little dog won my heart.
SPUNKY by Dori Brink
Rating:
5 / 5
First Impressions on SPUNKY by Dori BrinkI just started it yesterday, am already past pp 50. It's just so real but imaginative too... Most my work is also about doggies but non-fiction. I wasn't even able to imagine the beginning of Charlie's life. I met him in a shelter at about the same age you Dori met Spunky. I admire the novel tone of Spunky even though I'm sure a lot is true to life. Dori, You personify Spunky so well and yet he is the one who tells the story!! All those dog thoughts and talk don't take away from his character and don't anthropomorphize him in a bad way. Spunky is a full-fledged dog!! Yet he tells the story making the book and the main character (Spunky) adorable and so close to the reader he could be in the same room! I also want to add (maybe because I'm not a native English speaker or writer) that the richness of vocabulary and of language is amazing. Hoping the best for you and wishing Spunky who has been immortalized by you, is reposing in peace in Pet paradise, I must say Dori you are a very talented novelist. Gallia Taranto (writer)
Can't express how wonderfully written this book is!
Rating:
5 / 5
I read this book as a child a zillion + times! I could never put it down. Now as a adult and the mother of 2 kids I have told my daughter to go to school and find this book (cant find my copy =-( ) and read it! Everybody should read this book. Yes, granted it is a sad story but the author is superb in her writing of this novel!
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