Jack is having a hard time at school because he can’t read as well as the other children. One day, he visits the animal shelter with his sister and notices a nervous puppy called Daisy. He sits next to her while practising his reading.
Jack keeps visiting Daisy at the shelter. As she gets more confident, Jack thinks she is ready to be adopted. But when another family takes an interest in Daisy, Jack is worried that he will lose his friend forever…
I was gifted this book by Holly Webb as an advanced copy.
Jack hates reading and gets embarrassed at school if he has to read out loud. When his best friend Amaraghs Mum comes in to school to listen to children in his class read he loses his temper with his friends because he thinks they will find out how bad his reading is.
Jacks sister Mattie is at college and helps out in a local animal shelter, but even though she’s busy she offers to listen to Jack read, he’s not convinced she will have time for him.
A little pup is thrown out of a car and left abandoned by the side of the road she’s left with a sprained paw, hungry and wanting her mum. She’s taken to the local shelter and given the name Daisy.
The puppy is scared and even after a week of being there she won’t come out from under her blanket.
Mattie tells Jack about Daisy and takes him to see her one day they worry she won’t find a home, jack decides to read his book to the puppy and she slowly comes a little out of her blanket. Will Daisy find a home and will Jack get over his reading problem ? Will the two be able to help each other …..
This was a lovey little story I’ve heard of children reading books to animals especially dogs and how it can help a child struggling either to read or with school to have an animal to read or talk to.
I loved the way this story built up and how the frustration that Jack suffered because of his reading.
I work one to one with an ASD child and we have a school dog and he finds it a calming influence to just have a stroke or cuddle with our dog so I can relate to this story.
I would highly recommend this book to young children and especially children with the same issues as Jack or even special needs children too. Other children would just love the heart warming tale of jack and Daisy.
gilly918 