Colleen Pelar and Julie Fudge Smith invite writer Ellie Hicks to join them in a discussion of books with or about dogs and their favorite literary pups.
Ellie is a regular contributor to AmReading.com. Her post on 10 of the Best Literary Dogs inspired this discussion. We added a few favorites of our own. Here are the dogs and stories we talked about:
- Argos: The Odyssey, Homer
- Big Red: Big Red, Jim Kjelgaard
- Buck: Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Fang: Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
- Jack: Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lassie: Lassie Come Home, Eric Knight
- Muggs: My Life and Hard Times, James Thurber
- Nana: Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
- Old Dan and Little Ann: Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
- Old Yeller: Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
- Ribsy: The Henry Huggins series, Beverly Cleary
- Stark Direwolves: A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin
- Tock: Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
- Toto: The Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum
- Tricky Woo: All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
