Chicken, Pig, and Cow were actually little toys but they didn’t know it.  They lived in a little toy barn.  Their best friend was Dog.  He was real.  

Ruth Ohi is a very famous Canadian children’s book author and I can see why.  She weaves a great imaginative story which she fabulously illustrates herself.  This book is a gem.

When Stella was very, very small, she thought she was a turtle, then a goldfish”, etc..  When she was small she thought her bath tub was a “olympic-sized pool and raced against her rubber ducks.  “Stella always won.  She also thought that “words looked like ants running of the pages.

When I was invited to receive this children’s book for review, I thought to myself, “I love dogs and Oregon is one of my favorite places in the United State, so why not.”  I accepted.

I started to read this book a few months ago but just couldn’t get into it at the time.  I know it’s only 42 pages for ages 9-12 but something was holding me back from finishing it.  Maybe it was just the mood I was in at the time.

I picked it up again yesterday, bound and determined to read it through.  It is about a familie’s adventures with their Black Sheep Dog, Snip.  Snip teaches their boy to drive, he saves the boy from drowning in a water trough, and he encounters a smelly black and white visitor, a skunk.  The adventures go on.

I didn’t find this book very engaging.  It has a few sparse moments but over all it just didn’t do much for me.  Perhaps it’s because I am not a child, but I have read and reviewed other children’s books that I have enjoyed.  I also had an issue with Snip riding in the back of the pick-up truck.  It’s the animal rights activist inside of me.  You should not let your dog rid in the back of the truck for the same reason that they made it illegal for people to do so.  It is dangerous.  Don’t teach kids that it’s all right, it’s not!  That said, some of the illustrations are nice.