Dogs Can T Fly

A bird dog befriends an injured wild goose, and on foot they head south for the winter.

Who says dogs can’t fly? Meet Zora: a dog with a big dream and an even bigger personality. All Zora wants to do is learn how to fly so she can catch that pesky squirrel in her yard. But try as she might to prove to her friend Tully—a skeptical cat—that dogs truly can fly, nothing seems to work. Until Zora finds the right motivation, that is. Kathy Stinson’s charming story of perseverance is beautifully brought to life by Brandon James Scott’s exuberant and wonderfully expressive illustration. Touching on themes of optimism and determination in the face of failure, The Dog Who Wanted to Fly is a book anyone—even a cat—will love.

Send your spirits soaring with this powerful, positive rhyming tale. On the way to school one day, Sid is so full of happiness that he starts to fly. But no one believes him. Dogs don't fly, they say. Poor Sid is miserable, until his dad lets him in on an amazing secret: some dogs do!

"Do you have an impossible dog? ... You may not know it but there are certain breeds that were developed to work independently. Those breeds, and mixes, include Hounds, Terriers, Northern Breeds, and Livestock Guardian dogs. If you have a Pigs Fly kind of dog you need to work with her independent nature not against it to get good manners and even high level performance." --Amazon.com.

Dogs Can Fly is the second book of The Critter Trilogy. Bogey the Wonder Squirrel was the first book, and the final story in the trilogy is The Miracle of Helen the Rabbit, stories about a menagerie of lovable animals. Steve Rogers is a lover of animals – and Dogs Can Fly is the story of Bud the family dog – the adventures and misadventures of a dog that could truly fly!

Dogs can’t fly, but then Blink is not a dog; he is a small, mischievous, purple dragon. Only Danny can see what Blink is, but Danny is a scruffy eleven-year-old with a reputation for lying, so who would believe him if he told them? He must cope alone with the trials of raising a headstrong young dragon, which eats everything in sight, breathes fire at awkward moments and steals shiny things to add to his treasure hoard under the bed. Worst of all, he is learning to fly and even Danny does not know how to explain a flying dog!Dogs Can’t Fly charts the adventures of Danny and his irrepressible dragon, from eating underpants to scaring off the school bullies. It is filled with wry humour with a measure of slapstick and colourful characters, such as the Professor, a mad scientist and dragon expert. But there is also the Tattooed Man, who is far too interested in Danny’s ‘dog’... When Blink is kidnapped by treasure hunters, Danny and the Professor must race against time, over land and sea to save him, battling ruthless men with guns and, worse, a dragon far bigger and meaner than Blink.Dogs Can’t Fly is an imaginative, humorous work of fantasy fiction for children aged 9-12 that has been inspired by Katharine’s border terrier, Wilfred. “He likes to chase butterflies and one day he was jumping so high that I said, ‘Dogs can’t fly!’ By the time our walk was over, I had the first chapter sketched out in my head and I began writing as soon as we got home!”