Kristie Smith

My Puppy, Pepper Kristie Smith

Noah and his sister, Anna, love to use their imagination when looking at their mother's collection of peg people and their village. Readers (ages 7-10) will enjoy the colorful pictures of peg people and wooden animals, scenes, and props. Noah and Anna are summoned by the peg people leaders, Peggy, Dolly and Shorty when they encounter wooden people and objects blinking to colors red, blue an yellow. The emergency? Pepper, the puppy is missing! Has someone taken Pepper? Where he is? Children will enjoy a great ending as well as learning writing strategies (alliteration) and rhyming words throughout the book. At the end of the story, there are fun and non-threatening writing activities encouraging kids to write creatively.