Dream Team

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

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.

[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.