Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale
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- ISBN13: 9780761129752
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Now in paperback, AMAZING GRACIE is a moving, amusing, and inspirational canine rags-to-riches tale. “Tears will stain the pages as you read about Gracie,” says USA Today. The Chicago Tribune advises, “If you’re fleeting on inspiration, read Incredible Gracie.” “You don’t have to be obsessed with dogs to like this tale” (Philadelphia Enquirer), “Two paws up” (Portland Oregonian), “humorous yet poignant” (ASPCA Animal Watch). Booklist comments that “Dog-loving teens, especially reluctant readers, will eat this up.” AMAZING GRACIE was nominated as a Young Adult Choice for 2002 by The International Reading Association-proof that it’s a fantastic crossover book.
Gracie was a deaf and partially blind albino Fantastic Dane with a delicate constitution and a penchant for tiny miracles. Dan is the man-sad over the loss of his last dog and trapped in a dead-end job-who adopted her. Three Dog Bakery is the burgeoning and much-publicized chain of canine bakeries that, inspired by Gracie, Dan and his friend Mark founded. A like tale, AMAZING GRACIE describes how Dan saves Gracie, the loneliest pup in the litter, then how, over the next ten years, Gracie saves Dan and Mark, teaching them the real meaning of happiness. There’s the moment of meeting, when Gracie gets to her feet like a clumsy foal and nuzzles Dan’s nose. Gracie’s romance with the pint-size Boston Terrier next door. And the eureka moment (born of Gracie’s anorexia-inducing dislike for commercial dog food): Dan teaches himself to cook and within three days starts baking the dog cookies that will transform their lives. AMAZING GRACIE is a dog-lover’s treat.
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What a sweet book. Nothing spectacular here except Gracie. If you like dogs, you’ll like this tale.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This is a fun, sweet, and eventually poignant tale, and an appealing account of the startup of the three dog bakery. I loved to hear about Gracie, and she sure makes the thought of a Dane tempting (I’ve got GSDs myself). What I couldn’t figure out though, was why the emphasis on feeding this poor dog whole wheat flour, fruits and veggies. The leader talks about poor Gracie potentially starving to death, while he searches for the perfect “nonmeat, nonchocolate, nonsalt, nonsugar ingredient” and discusses carrots, spinach, bananas, apples, pears, etc. And I’m thinking — why nonmeat? I mean, dogs are carnivores, after all. Why not give up on the pears and hand this starving dog vanishing into thin air half a raw chicken and see what she does with it and how she makes out?
Perhaps because my dogs are raw fed that I am so puzzled by the non meat reference. They do eat a few Castor and Pollux organic chicken cookies on rare occasions (we don’t have a Three Dog bakery around here) but the first ingredient even of persons is chicken liver, not grain flour, which I can’t honestly see how dogs could need or want, for that matter. I’m glad Gracie survived, and more power to Dan and Mark for their incredible business success, and Dan’s dedication to keep Gracie going one pan of cookies at a time. But after reading this account of feverish and desperate mixing and baking and substituting ingredients (long before they even had the thought for a business), to keep Gracie fed, I kept thinking how misguided the effort, how much simpler and more natural it is just to raw feed and why Dan didn’t consider giving her a nice raw meaty bone as a replacement for of searching for the perfect “nonmeat” ingredients. I still don’t know that. Later he does talk about baking vegetable beef biscuits, but it still seems to me if I had a starving dog I’d cut a chicken in half — or for a dog that huge, perhaps a whole chicken, and just feed her naturally. Better for her, and so much simpler. But apart from that, it’s a fantastic tail. I mean tale
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The books came in and it was like groundbreaking new….in fact if I hadn’t known I ordered it used I would never have known. It was a fantastic gift and the seller is another I would use again. The book came sooner than promised and was in even better shape than described.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I selected up this book again after reading it when it first came out. I’m loving it all over again. Of course it’s not a book about how the Three Dog Bakery came to be. It’s a tale about Gracie. I see that a reader was disappointed in the dialogue, but I don’t reflect it’s geared towards a teenage girl (as the reader suggested.) The leader is a creative writer (or was- read the book!) and so the tales (although- I don’t reflect they’re fictitious) are fantasticaly told with fantastic description. There are so many points in the book that I factually laugh out loud. Definately a excellent (and quick!!!) read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As the owner of a deaf and partially blind Fantastic Dane coincidentally name Grace, I loved this book. Its very heart warming and endearing. FYI, there is no such thing as an albino Fantastic Dane though.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5