A Dog Like Daisy

by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

[Leah]

A Dog Like Daisy is one of those books that just makes me happy. I love books about dogs, with dogs, just include an animal in your book and there’s a 99.9% chance I’ll love it. Unless you kill the dog/animal. Because there’s just no need (except for Marley and Me, which was heart-breaking, but, alas, it was a true story so it was inevitable). Do you know what’s even better than books about dogs? BOOKS NARRATED BY DOGS. They are the best, and A Dog Like Daisy just made me so incredibly happy, because I just *adored* Daisy.

Saying that, A Dog Like Daisy isn’t all bacon and happy times, because when Daisy is rescued by Colonel Victor, it’s to become a service dog, to help the Colonel with his PTSD. So it has a bit of a serious tone to it, and we see the Colonel struggling with his PTSD throughout the book, and that’s such a scary thing to suffer from. I can’t imagine it. I can’t imagine being permanently on edge, waiting for the ball to drop, as the Colonel is. But I liked that Daisy could sense when he was on edge, that she knew when he needed her to help him.

A Dog Like Daisy was such a cute, uplifting stories. To hear Daisy’s thoughts, regardless of how true it is to a dog’s thoughts was just delightful. I loved her inner monologues and how she just knew how to sit and turn on the light, and other things she needed to learn to pass her test to become her service dog. Daisy was just super adorable and I loved the whole family, this was such a touching, gorgeous read. Middle grade readers will absolutely love Daisy. I wanted to keep her for myself!