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The Book Table is open every Sunday at noon. These hot books chosen for July are great for Summer reading. Dog (oops) Doug Smith has recommended them for your pleasure. Animal lovers age 8 up to late adulthood will be blessed by reading any one of these books. What would we do without our dog friends?
Joan Tedrow, Book Table coordinator
Doug Smith
Editor of Tidings
My Dog Skip
Willie Morris
Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish
Mark Levin
Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education. Sounder won the Newberry Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.
My Dog Skip is an autobiography by Willie Morris. The story is about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in a small, sleepy Southern town that teaches us about family, friendship, love, devotion and bravery. Willie and Skip's relationship goes beyond that of owner and dog, but is a relationship recognized and celebrated by the entire town. You could talk to him as well as you could to many human beings, and much better than you could to some. He would sit down and look you straight in the eye, a long, mesmerizing gaze, and when he understood what you were saying he would turn his head sideways, back and forth, oscillating his whole body like the pendulum on a clock. In 2000, the book was made into the film My Dog Skip.
Rescuing Sprite: In 2007, Mark Levin released a book about his dogs, Pepsi and Sprite. Specifically, the book was about Sprite, a Spaniel mix that his wife and son persuaded him to adopt from the local shelter in 2004. The book was titled Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish. Rescuing Sprite chronicles Sprite’s health deterioration in 2006 and how Levin and his family dealt with their loss.