How do you say hello and good-bye in dog talk? Most importantly, how do you tell your dog that you're the boss and have him adore you? Learn what different tail positions and facial expressions mean — and much more!
Jean Craighead George, award-winning author of over 80 books about nature and animals, demonstrates in words and photos how to communicate with your best friend.
01-01 TX Bluebonnet Award Masterlist
Children's Books 2000-NY Public Lib.
Author Biography:
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in a family of naturalists, Jean George has centered her life around writing and nature. She attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with degrees in English and science. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps and a reporter for the Washington Post. Ms. George, who has written over 90 books - among them My Side of the Mountain (Dutton), a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, and its sequels On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain (both Dutton) - also hikes, canoes, and makes sourdough pancakes. In 1991, Ms. George became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, which was presented to her for the "consistent superior quality" of her literary works.
Her inspiration for the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves evolved from two specific events during a summer she spent studying wolves and tundra at the Arctic Research Laboratory of Barrow, Alaska: "One was a small girl walking the vast ad lonesome tundra outside ofBarrow; the other was a magnificent alpha male wolf, leader of a pack in Denali National Park ... They haunted me for a year or more, as did the words of one of the scientists at the lab: 'If there ever was any doubt in my mind that a man could live with the wolves, it is gone now. The wolves are truly gentlemen, highly social and affectionate.'"
The mother of three children, Jean George is a grandmother who has joyfully red to her grandchildren since they were born. Over the years Jean George has kept 173 pets, not including dogs and cats, in her home in Chappaqua, New York. "Most of these wild animals depart in autumn, when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories."
Describes how dogs communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.
Anonymous
Posted December 18, 2009
My young son borrowed this from the school library. Both 6 and 7 year olds enjoyed reading and testing out each theory. It was well written for youngsters but not too detailed or lengthy to lose their attention. We liked it so much, we went right out to buy it.
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Posted June 28, 2007
Regarding the review that cautioned using some techniques on dominant dogs, I agree, it takes more intensive training to dominate a dominant dog. On non-dominant dogs, however, these techniques work to help a child be the dominant one in the relationship, which is what you want, especially with bigger dogs. I just loved the illustrations, they're why I checked the book out of the library and then bought my own copy. That, and the fact that Jean Craighead George was a favored author when I was a middle school librarian.
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Posted March 21, 2005
This book is 100% accurate with extremely great details on what to do to communicate with your dog. It tells you what your dog will do in response, and how you should respond to that. I tried some of the communication skills with my two dogs, and they worked completely! Be sure to get this book ASAP so you can enjoy the book with your friends and family!
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Posted August 9, 2004
This is the best book about dogs. I have checked it out from the library at least 5 times, now I am buying it to share with my grandmother. She has a dog that we love. We think she is the best dog in the world because she talks to us a lot and now we know what she is saying. This book has taught me a lot. Thank you.
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Posted April 21, 2000
While this is a fun book to look at, and addresses a badly needed topic, this book contains some misleading, questionable, potentially dangerous advice. As a person who works with dogs and children, and who spends much of my time cautioning children about keeping away from a dog's face and watching their movements and body language around dogs, both familiar and strange, I cringe at the possible results of a chid following the advice, 'Sniff his nose to tell him not to be angry or confused.' I would not advise an adult to do that. Waving objects over the head of a dominant dog, as suggested in the text, can also be dangerous. Dogs see children as litter mates and tend to want to correct them as they correct each other, with their teeth. I urge you to approach the ideas in this book with extreme CAUTION!
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Posted February 9, 2009
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Overview
How do you say hello and good-bye in dog talk? Most importantly, how do you tell your dog that you're the boss and have him adore you? Learn what different tail positions and facial expressions mean — and much more!
Jean Craighead George, ...