The Horn of Caninia: A Boy, His Talking Dog, and a Kingdom of Hounds

Twelve-year-old Ian Richards did not want to move to the Texas bayou. He did not expect the old culvert at the edge of his new property to be a doorway between worlds-and he definitely did not expect his Afghan hound, Penelope, to leap straight through it. Chasing her, Ian tumbles into Caninia: a land of two moons and talking dogs, ruled by the wise Queen Coraline and threatened by Snaptooth, an alligator warlord who has united the reptiles of the Scaleback Swamps and begun swallowing villa...