Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This week, we’re going way back in the archives to revisit an episode about our favorite bookish dogs. Tune in and let us know your favorite!
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
