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  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Copyright © 2010 by Louise Yates

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  Originally published in 2010 in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Yates, Louise.

  Dog loves books / Louise Yates. — 1st American ed.

  p. cm.

  Originally published: Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 2010.

  Summary: Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.

  eISBN: 978-0-375-98479-2

  [1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Books and reading—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.Y276Do 2010

  [E]—dc22

  2009011097

  The illustrations in this book were created using pencil and watercolor.

  Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.

  v3.1

  For Eleanor and Cedric

  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Dedication

  First Page

  About the Author

  Dog loved books.

  He loved the smell of them,

  and he loved the feel of them.

  He loved everything about them.…

  Dog loved books so much

  that he decided to open his own bookstore.

  He unwrapped,

  unpacked,

  and stacked the books,

  ready for the Grand Opening.

  When the day of the Grand Opening finally came,

  Dog had a bath,

  dried his fur,

  blew his nose,

  and threw open the door

  to greet his new customers.

  But there was no one there.

  So Dog tried to keep busy.

  And then…

  a lady came into the store.

  “I’ll have a tea with milk and two sugars,”

  she said.

  “I’m sorry,” said Dog, “But this is a bookstore. I only sell books.”

  The lady walked out.

  Dog was alone.

  He waited and waited.

  Then a man came into the store…

  to ask for directions.

  When he left, Dog was downhearted.

  But not for long!

  He wouldn’t wait a moment more.

  Dog fetched a book from the shelf

  and began to read.

  When he read, he forgot that he was waiting.

  When he read, he forgot that he was alone.

  When he read, he forgot that he

  was in the bookstore.

  And when one adventure ended,

  Dog simply took another book

  down from the shelf and…

  a new adventure began!

  So Dog was somewhere else altogether when…

  a customer came into the store to ask for a book.

  Dog knew exactly which ones to recommend.

  but most of all…

  he loves to share them!

  Louise Yates began drawing pictures to go with the stories she wrote for school and, at a young age, began telling people that she wanted to be a children’s book illustrator. “One of the things I love most about picture books is the silences, the moments when the text shuts up and the pictures either tell you something that the text hasn’t or something totally different,” she writes.

  Her first picture book, A Small Surprise, is an inspired example of those moments of silence when the pictures have their say. In its rave review of A Small Surprise, Kirkus Reviews predicted that it “will be sure to have readers in stitches.… Yates’s debut is one of those books that grows on readers with repetition. Small children who feel they aren’t big enough to do anything will appreciate the message, while their adults might be inspired to look for the hidden talents.”

  Louise Yates was born in England and lives in London.

 

 

  Louise Yates, Dog Loves Books

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