Trouper: Based on a True Rescue Story
Written by Meg Kearney
Illustrated by E.B. Lewis
The story starts with Trouper, a stray three-legged dog running with a pack of dogs on the streets until they are all captured and loaded up in the dog catcher’s truck.
The dog in this true story was taken first to a kill shelter, then rescued by another shelter. There is no mention of the kill shelter in the children’s book. It is only in the preliminary material so can be shared with readers, but doesn’t have to be. The full color illustrations show him as he waited and waited for someone to choose him and take him home.
Children will love this story of how dogs and puppies watch for new owners to come and pick them out.
This lovely book was developed together by the award winning poet, Meg Kearney and Caldecott Honor winner, the illustrator E.B. Lewis.
Second grade readers will be able to read the short text individually and will be able to use their newly developed literacy skills of context clues, predicting outcomes, and realizing the related cause and effects.
Title: Trouper: Based on a True Rescue Story- Author: Meg Kearney
- Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
- Publisher: Scholastic Press, New York, 2013
- Reviewer: Elizabeth Swartz
- Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
- ISBN: 978-0-545-10041-0
- Genre: Nonfiction