Coffee with a canine: Jacqueline Resnick & Maple

The current featured duo at Coffee with a Canine: Jacqueline Resnick and Maple.

The author, on how she and Maple were united:

She was a gift from my parents when I graduated college. I'd pretty much been dreaming of getting a dog since the first day of freshman year. I didn’t expect her to be so small, though! Maple was the runt of her litter, and is actually about...[read on]

About Jacqueline Resnick's new book, The Daring Escape of the Misfit Menagerie:

Smalls the sun bear and his friends are an unusual bunch. That’s why they’re known as the Misfit Menagerie! The four oddball animals live on Mr. Mumford’s farm, where they play games and do tricks for neighborhood children. It’s an idyllic existence—until a cruel circus owner named Claude Magnificence comes to town, and life as they know it ends. The Menagerie is snatched away to a traveling circus, where Claude and his buffoonish sidekicks force them to perform death-defying tricks.

At the circus, Smalls and his friends only have slop to eat. They live in filthy, cramped cages. And they’re bullied by a rough band of trained animals called the Lifers. It’s worse than awful—it’s despicable! But then young Bertie Magnificence comes along, and he and Smalls form the kind of friendship that inspires hope. They decide that something needs to change…and fast. With the help of an acrobat named Susan, Smalls and Bertie set in motion a heroic plan.

Learn more about the book and author at Jacqueline Resnick's website and blog.

Read--Coffee with a Canine: Jacqueline Resnick and Maple.

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