Mr.K'sBlog

 I have chosen to compare Love That Dog to three Samurai Cats.  as a child three samurai cats was a beloved picture book to my brother and I, for whatever reason its art style and theme delighted our little grade school brains. As I struggle with the recent loss of my childhood dog, Tallulah, Love that dog really caught me where I was most sensitive. I really did feel the love for that dog. Comparing how the books make me feel right now might be a little off script, But I feel the nostalgia and memories are a good thing to bring about with a book from my childhood, and a book from class.  

 Because of Winn Dixie: Candace Lehman vs. Those shoes: Meribeth Boelts and Noah Jones.  This exercise was interesting as I had read winn dixie as a younger man, and have only read those shoes fairly recently. Winn Dixie as a chapter book gets a much longer time to tell its story than those shoes, yet both stories have themes of friendship, otherness and loneliness. The covers of each book may feature a dog and a pair of shoes respectively, but the role of these subjects is our main characters journeys away from loneliness.