Red Alert

Puppy Patrol #9

by Jenny Dale

Neil and Emily instantly like the friendly red setter Red, who was the Parkers' first kennel guest, but when fire threatens to destroy the kennels, they hope they can save Red and the kennels from tragedy.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Middle Grade, Kids, Dogs

112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Prolific author of animals stories for younger children, in particular dog and cat stories. As well as a Puppy Tales and Kitten Tales series she has written the Pony Tales series of pony books.

There is some speculation that the author does not actually exist but is a psuedonym for another author or authors. One author mentioned as writing under the name of Jenny Dale is Liss Norton, who incidentally is also said to be one of the ghostwriters for the Lucy Daniels Animal Ark series.

Reviews

[Marlee · Rating 1 out of 5]

My daughter and I both agreed that this was not a good book. It wasn’t engaging. It wasn’t really about the dog. It was more about the family issues and uncertainty caused by a fire. And the dog died. Plus, rather than saying “Mom” or “Dad” whenever they spoke, it referred to them as “Carol” and “Bob” which was confusing until we got used to the characters. Though this is the 9th book, we hadn’t read the previous book. So, had we read those we would have already known the parents’ names. However, even once we knew their names, it just seemed awkward. Most children’s books refer to parents as parents rather than by their given names.

[Kelly Conger · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful. The book is ridiculously sad and just got worse. I hadnt seen my daughter cry since she was 2 and broke her arm and she was sobbing with this. I always donate our books to the library after we read them for their book sales and I threw this out because I did not want any other little kid to read this

[Mary Nuttelman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent children's book about dogs. I read it because there was an Irish setter in it; I have two myself. It is sad, but realistic. Some children reading it might be upset, but there were positives to the story, too.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very good. Even though I didn't read it on purpose and I read it in one day.

[Ciera Legue · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was so sad for majority of the book. i never thought i would see a day where bob parker actually wanted to sell the kennel

[Kate (Feathered Turtle Press Reviews) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this when I was younger. Remember it to be quite sad. Generally okay for kids to read, but maybe not ones especially sensitive to the death of animals.

[Twyla · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite part was when red was okay. the worst part was when there was a fire. the best character was red. there was no worst character.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book for kids and Tweens. The storyline was decent and I liked it when I had read it