Jake the Growling Dog Shares His Trail (Jake the Growling Dog Book 3) by Samantha Shannon – Review by Sarah Devereaux

Jake the Growling Dog Shares His Trail by Samantha Shannon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Jake the Growling Dog Shares His Trail is the 3rd book in the Jake the Growling Dog children’s book series by Samantha Shannon.
This book was absolutely adorable! My daughter and I had a cuddle together and read this story and she loved it! The pictures are beautiful, and the story was very touching and had a great way of helping kids to understand about disabilities and that we really are all the same no matter what we look like.
Jake has a trail that he walks each day. On this trail, he meets friends, but one day when he and a friend see new prints on the trail, they become scared of what might be on the trail and if it might be able to hurt them.
Samantha Shannon has done a great job of having Jake and his friend use their imagination to think of what the prints may be from. When Jake later meets what the prints are from, he realizes that he had simply never encountered someone like this before and that they were friendly and just like him on the inside but a little different on the outside and that was ok!
As an early childhood educator, I really think this book would do fantastic in schools and daycares, especially in kindergarten and grade 1 classes and I will be mentioning it, and this series of books, to my many teacher and ECE friends for the upcoming school year!

If you have little ones in your life, I highly recommend this book, and series, for their book collection!
My daughter and I cannot wait to find out what Jake’s next adventure is all about!

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