Sometimes an adult dog book sneaks in but for the most part Dog Reads aims to help kids, their parents, teachers, and librarians find dog books. Posted Novemby amob & filed under Husky, John Reynolds Gardiner.īest Dog Books is a blog that features children’s books with key dog characters.
Gardiner is survived by his wife children Carrie, Alicia and Danielle a grandchild, Lana a brother and sisters Kay Brown and Sue Broome.Best Dog Books: STONE FOX by john reynolds gardiner
“Gardiner was concerned about quality stories for children,” Hodge said. “Gardiner’s other books were equally well done, but they never got the press of his first one,” said Frank Hodge, owner of Hodge-Podge Books for children in Albany, N.Y., and a longtime friend of Gardiner.Īll three books had one thing in common. “General Butterfingers” (1986) follows a kind but clumsy boy as he helps care for aging war veterans. “Top Secret” (1985) is about a boy who turns himself into a plant as a science project. Two more novels, both filled with good-natured humor, were published. Seven years later, it was made into an NBC television movie with Buddy Ebsen as the boy’s grandfather. In it, a boy named Willy and his dog Searchlight enter a dogsled race hoping to beat an undefeated opponent.Ī producer read the script and suggested Gardiner turn it into a book, which he did. Originally, he wrote “Stone Fox” as a screenplay. got me to enroll in a television writing class, taught by an instructor who didn’t give a hoot about spelling and grammar, and my writing career began,” Gardiner wrote in his autobiography. When he was in his late 20s, his brother Ken made a suggestion. He kept up his writing while he worked as a contract engineer specializing in thermodynamics for such aerospace corporations as Rockwell International and McDonnell Douglas. He did have one thing going for him, he said.
They “could and did get better grades on their compositions than I did,” he wrote. For most of the other students in the class, English was a second language. “At UCLA, I ended up in dumbbell English,” Gardiner wrote in an autobiography on his website.
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