Join Roxie, a dachshund dog, as she makes the transition from her temporary Foster home to her new Forever home. Based on a real dog and her experiences, the book is designed to help children through the complicated process of adoption and other family transitions.

A Book To Help Children through Adoption. Join Roxie, a dachshund dog, as she makes the transition from her temporary Foster home to her new "Forever" home. Based on a real dog and her story, the book is designed to help children through the often complicated process of adoption. The book includes a Parent and Therapist Guide to aid adults assisting children through the transition.Just like Roxie, adopted children can undergo a wide range of emotions when facing adoption, joining a new family in a new home, with unknown surroundings and circumstances. Through Roxie's story, the book shows children that they are moving into a loving, caring family and that just like with Roxie, there is nothing to fear and everything will be all right. It can also apply to children joining blended families, or moving between one separated parent and another.The book comes with a detailed Parent and Therapist Guide written by professional therapists, and customized to help adult caregivers in guiding children through the adoption process and answering questions they may have. Parents can use the guide to help answer questions, craft talking-points and formulate discussions with the children about adoption. Therapists can use the guide when working with children in any situation involving change, excitement, fear and anxiety. Parents thinking about adopting or having to explain adoption to their biological children will also find the guides useful.And there is a photo-section in the book with information about the real Roxie, including her e-mail contact so that children can talk directly with Roxie and ask her questions about adoption and other challenges they may not want to ask their caregivers - a safe way for children to express their feelings without feeling threatened. Individual answers to the children's questions are crafted by Roxie's real adoptive mother, Jody A. Dean, a Ph.D. psychologist with 28 years experience in the field.

Tony hates the cold! The adorable 9 1/2 lb. Italian greyhound is excited when his "daddy" announces they are going to Florida to visit his relatives. During their stay, Tony's Aunt Vickie and Uncle Bob adopt a retired racing greyhound named Stella. When Tony returns to Maryland, he organizes his friends from "The Paws Playgroup" and they plan a "Canine Costume Party" to raise funds for The Greyhound Rescue Organization. A heartwarming "tail" that teaches children the value of helping others.

"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." -- Dr. Temple Grandin What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner -- completely awake -- so they could figure out what they think and feel. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns takes us into the minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, dolphins who can see with sound, and even the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs prove definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do -- a revelation that forces us to reconsider how we think about and treat animals. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century.

Recounts the author's journey nursing her adopted beagle Seamus through his cancer treatment as she learned to deal with medical situations, unknowingly preparing herself for her own later triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis.

More skilled at woodworking than communicating, Nix Humbolt seeks the words to deal with high school expectations, his extroverted sister, and his neighbor's neglected dog.

A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier’s life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover. Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist people with disabilities. Tuesday had lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, and he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being–until Luis. Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how, together, they healed each other’s souls.