Dream Team (Love Puppies #3)

Love Puppies #3

by JaNay Brown-Wood

Adorable dogs + a sprinkle of magic + a celebration of social emotional learning! Yip! Yip! Hooray! A little magic can save the day! A mission like no other has the Love Puppies stuck. Eliana has excellent basketball skills, and Barkley knows she's talented enough to make the school team--that is, if she can figure out how to be a good teammate. How are the pups supposed to help someone who has no interest in sharing the ball, playing nice, or making friends? With a little bit of magic and a whole lot of kindness, the Love Puppies will have to work hard to figure out how to really help Eliana. Anything is paw-sible with the power of love!

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Chapter Books

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 4, 2023

About the author

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD is an award-winning children’s author, educator, and scholar. Her first book Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award, and her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. She has several poems published including Falling Leaves in the poetry anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (Lerner/Millbrook, 2019) a Chicago Public Library’s Best Informational Books for 2019, an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book, and a Notable Children’s Book for the Global Society. She has more than seven forthcoming books including Shhh! The Baby’s Asleep (Charlesbridge, forthcoming 2021), Where in the Garden a four-book series (Peachtree, forthcoming 2021, 2022, 2023) and Jam, Too (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House, forthcoming 2023). She is represented by the fabulous Karen Grencik of Red Fox Literary. Learn more about her here at www.janaybrownwood.com or follow her on Twitter @janaybrownwood.

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mara loved this book. She’s definitely the target audience at age 4/5. I, however, found it absolutely ridiculous. My 8-year-old and I had many moments of making eye contact and giggling at the sheer absurdity of a dog shape shifting into a frisbee, or a wad of gum and dog-created wind making a ball hog suddenly pass. It felt like a novelization of a tv episode.

[Annie Flanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love Puppies is a series of books about magical Love Puppies.

There are four of them - Barkley - a dachshund. Rosie is a Golden Retriever. Clyde is a Shar-Pei. Noodles is a Labra-doodle. Each one of them has a magical talent.

They all live at Love Puppy Headquarters - which is a magical residence. When they want - all they have to do is state what food they want to eat and it magically appears.

Whenever there is a mission - a Crystal Bone flashes and vibrates.

Their mission this time is to help a young girl named Elianna - who is a basketball player at her school - but who does not have a great personality.

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another book I read with my son, and he really enjoys this series, as the magical puppies come to the human world and help children through everyday challenges. In this story, the focus is on a third-grade girl who is trying to make the basketball team. While she has strong technical skills, her attitude toward the game and her teammates becomes a barrier. I appreciated that the story didn't just focus on ability, but also on character and teamwork.

The overall message was a great one for young readers: be open to help from others, play fairly, and recognize success isn't something you have to achieve entirely on your own.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

My 8 year old enjoys this series that we’re reading.

[Iyla Q · Rating 5 out of 5]

like it

[Amy Elise Salinas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute story with likable characters. It teaches the importance of teamwork and getting along with others. A good lesson for kids. I read it to my daughter and she loved it! She wants me to read the series now.