The Pack is Back

Three Labrador puppies face steep life challenges as they discover their identity, learn to overcome conflict and rebuild their pack. The stories are based on the author's close observation of the dogs' behaviour as they respond to jealousy, conflict, being lost, found, hurt, healed, grief, friendship and the joy of belonging to their pack. Children want to know about real life, and the dogs' experiences provide a window to children's own highs and lows, safely at one remove. The seven illustrated stories tell a big tale about canine and human life, today and in the deep past. The stories begin when the dogs were born, when they were One Litter with One Mother. As puppies, they were taken to separate homes. The One Pack family was lost. Everything in the stories really happened, just as it is told.