One author’s technique for bringing Dog Love into the heart of the classroom
By Debra Frasier, Author & Illustrator

Oddly, I came to understand more about first person narration when writing SPIKE, Ugliest Dog in the Universe because SPIKE was NOT first “person”—but was instead—”first dog.” In this story, Spike tells us some Big True Things about beauty being a matter of perspective: “Humans can be very ugly you know with those long swinging arms and no fur except on top”—and shows us that bein...