Central Kansas Library System

The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. Officer Buckle discovers his tips are not as successfully received by his audience without Gloria, who pantomimes his advice while he talks. And Gloria has nothing to demonstrate without Officer Buckle's narration. They need each other to make a successful presentation.

A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves next to a family that rescues dogs.

A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.

A rhyming alphabet book in which a boy tosses a snowball to his dog and starts an avalanche that engulfs the entire universe until it has to reverse itself and become a snowball again, ending up in the dog's mouth.

Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.

Dan would rather dig for dinosaur bones in his back yard than go to a museum with his mother, even though his dog, Bouncer, keeps getting in the way by dropping an odd looking stone in the hole.

"While at the farmers' market with her mama, Ladybug Girl spies some rescue dogs and, together with the Bug Squad, finds one of them a forever home, vowing to return again to help the others"--

Harry the dog finds a graceful way to dispose of his new sweater with roses on it.

A dog thinks he wants to leave the farm for the big city, but he finds out happiness is right next door.

As Irish teenager Grainne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Grainne's half brothers and their mother take a dogsleddingvacation in Finland.