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Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound
By Beth Finke
Henry Bergh Children's Book Award Winner: Non-Fiction Companion Animals Award 2007.
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The ASPCA Henry Bergh Book Award honors books that promote the humane ethic of compassion and respect for all living things. |
This book tells the story of Hanni, a Seeing Eye dog and her owner, Beth, a writer who travels a lot and is blind. Told from Hanni’s point of view, we learn what Seeing Eye dogs do and do not do when working. When her harness is on Hanni can’t stop to eat or sniff. She can’t be petted or roll over to scratch her back. She is focused on "keeping us safe". While at times Hanni envies the lives of other dogs, she is very proud of her job and enjoys being allowed in places where most dogs can’t go. End notes explain Hanni’s intensive training at the Seeing Eye School in Morristown, NJ, and how Beth became blind and came to have Hanni in her life.
Hardcover, ages 4-8.
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