Operation Rescue Dog: Giveaway Winners

OPERATION RESCUE DOG:
Picture Book Giveaway Winners

12 individual books were given away to educators,
school librarians, public librarians, and amazing literacy folks.
With our thanks to little bee books.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Operation Rescue Dog
By Maria Gianferrari
Illustrated by Luisa Uribe
Published by little bee books
ISBN-13: 9781499806670

This sweet story about a girl named Alma and a stray dog named Lulu shows how a girl and a dog can rescue each other.

Lulu’s ears flap in the wind
as the rescue truck rolls into the lot.
Lulu’s tail thumps—
Everything smells . . . new.

Lulu sleeps under the moon, drinks from mud puddles, and is covered in ticks until she is rescued. She waits for the Operation Rescue Dog truck, scared and uncertain. Alma misses her Mami, who is far away in Iraq. Alma wears Mami’s scarf around her like a hug. She wonders: Can a dog feel like a hug? In this heartwarming and moving picture book, a lonely child and a lonely dog come together and find warmth, companionship, and love in each other.

“Alma and her abuela get a rescue dog as a surprise for her mother’s return from Iraq…As humans and dog travel toward their meeting destination, not all is smooth sailing…But all’s well that ends well, and dog and child are united: “Alma smells like…home. So does Lulu.”…A very accessible story that will strike a chord with pet lovers and military families.” 
—Kirkus Reviews

THE EVENT KIT

The book offers a perfect opportunity to hold a pet adoption event, and the kit offers tips from librarians who are veterans at holding these events. Your readers, customers, and patrons can be welcomed to the event with flags and temporary tattoos and take home a model of the truck and their own invisible pet.
DOWNLOAD Operation Rescue Dog: Event Kit (PDF)
 

THE GIVEAWAY WINNERS