Outside of a Dog
by Patrick Rayner, Head of Circulation
This article originally appeared in the Library's Fall 2010 Features Newsletter.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"I like a dog at my feet when I read, Whatever his size or whatever his breed." - Edgar Guest
"If dogs are not there, it is not heaven." - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Perhaps you have found yourself in the Members' Room, leisurely paging through the day's newspapers, when a loud noise startled you from your reading, and you thought, "Did something in here just...bark?" Although we do not encourage barking, it has long been the pleasure of Library staff to host the dogs that accompany our members into the Circulation Hall. We keep treats in a Circulation Desk drawer to spoil our four-footed friends. Here, a few of the dogs we've had the privilege of befriending, with some titles they would be sure to recommend.
Children's Picture Books
- Buehner, Caralyn - Superdog: The Heart of a Hero (Juv-E B)
- Ehlert, Lois - Wag a Tail (Juv-E E)
- Feiffer, Kate - Which Puppy? (Juv-E F)
- Hill, Eric - Where's Spot? (Juv-E H BOARD BOOK)
- Kerby, Mona - Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch (Juv-E K)
- McCarty, Peter - Hondo & Fabian (Juv-E M)
- Winthrop, Elizabeth - Dog Show (Juv-E W)
- Zion, Gene - Harry, the Dirty Dog (Juv-E Z)
Children's Chapter Books
- Capucilli, Alyssa Satin - Biscuit (Juv-YR C)
- Cleary, Beverly - Ribsy (Juv-F C)
- DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn-Dixie (Juv-F D)
- Estes, Eleanor - Ginger Pye (Juv-F E)
- Hoff, Syd - Barkley (Juv-YR H)
- Knight, Eric - Lassie Come-Home (Juv-F K)
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (Juv-F L)
- Meister, Cari - Tiny's Bath (Juv-YR M)
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - Shiloh (Juv-F N)
- Rylant, Cynthia - Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures (Juv-YR R)
- Seidler, Tor - Gully's Travels (Juv-F S)
- Smith, Dodie - The Hundred and One Dalmations (Juv-F S)
Children's Nonfiction
- George, Kristine O'Connell - Little Dog Poems (Juv. 821 G)
- Jenkins, Steve - Dogs and Cats! (Juv. 636.7 J)
- Kirk, Daniel - Dogs Rule! (Juv. 821 K)
- Turner, Pamela S. - Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog (Juv. 92 HAC)
Classics
- Ackerley, J.R. - My Dog Tulip (828 A)
- Herriot, James - All Creatures Great and Small, and other memoirs (92 H5677H)
- Terhune, Albert Payson - Lad, a Dog, and other novels (Juv-F T and F T)
- Thurber, James - Thurber's Dogs (827 T)
- Elizabeth (pseud.) - All the Dogs of My Life (636.7 E)
- Woolf, Virginia - Flush, a Biography (F W)
Recent Works
- Wroblewski, David - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (F W)
- Stein, Garth - The Art of Racing in the Rain (F S)
- Mayle, Peter - A Dog's Life (F M)
- Quinn, Spencer - Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery and its sequels (F Q)
- Grogan, John - Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (636.7 G)
- Horowitz, Alexandra - Inside of a Dog : What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (636.7 H).
Audio of Ms. Horowitz's Library lecture on the book is available online