Eddie was my Summit dog in training, and my third dog to train. He regularly came to elementary school with me when I was teaching clay classes there. When the kids finished their projects and cleaned up, you could often see 10 or more of them quietly petting Eddie's big long body as he stretched out and enjoyed their attention. I asked the kindergarten teacher if we could make a story about Eddie visiting her classroom, and the beginning of a little book was born. Eddie was so good about holding things as we took his picture. He held the phone, of course, and a block, a carrot, a puppet, a paint brush, and little by little we had a story about him doing all the things the other kids did in class. His favorite activity was visiting the guinea pig, Pikachu. He was always gentle, but very excited underneath that self control.
His story, "Eddie Goes to Kindergarten" is now available in on-demand-printing. It's a small book, but a very special one to many of us. His new mom in Dallas, Texas is very excited to have the book for her canine reading therapy sessions with at-risk readers. What could be better than a young reader reading a story to a big black curly haired dog about the very same big black dog.
If you'd like to find more about our book, click
here.
Look how tall Eddie is
We write stories about Eddie
Eddie gets his name on the chart of "E" words
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