[LM_NET] GEN: Do you know this book?

[Judy Freeman <BKWSSF@AOL.COM>]

Hi all--

I'm posting this query on behalf of children's book author,
Brian Schatell. Ring a bell, anyone? I'm coming up blank.


I'm looking for information about a children's book that was published
no later than the 60's. It was a large hardcover with black and white
drawn illustrations, about a boy who wishes desperately for a dog. He
goes to sleep and dreams about a giant sheepdog(?) who accompanies him
on some challenging adventures, including climbing a seemingly endless
staircase in the sky. Perhaps at one point the dog tells the boy he
must continue on his own. I think the dream dog also gets sick and he
has to care for it? I'm not sure about that part. At the end of the
book, the boy wakes up--to his new puppy, jumping on his bed and into
his arms. The book is vaguely eerie, and some of the illustrations are
creepy--it's an emotional book.

Thanks--

Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
Reviewer for www.READKIDDOREAD.com
Author of Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2006; www.LU.com)
and Once Upon a Time:
Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and
Reader's Theater with Children in Grades K-6 (2007)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com



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