School for Puppies

Perfectly told in a brief text and Satoshi Kitamura’s trade mark witty illustrations School for Puppies is a delight to share through reading aloud and to pour over and read again and again.

Puppy misses his owner Lucy when she goes to school all day. What can she be doing there? he wonders.

When Puppy meets a pack of puppies all heading off to their own school he begins his own school experience. The teacher, Mr Terrier, tells the puppies to scratching behind their ears to keep them clean, to wag their tails to show other puppies you are friendly, to howl when they are lonely and, most important of all, to leave their messages on lamp posts so that they can always find your own way home.

Puppy follows the others out of school but soon gets lost! He knows Lucy will be home soon and he has to find his way back. Luckily, he remembers everything he learnt in school!