
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
What did you enjoy (or not enjoy!) about the book?
If you read this as a child, does it still hold up for you as an adult?
Is there anything else you‘d like to discuss about Beautiful Joe?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
What did you enjoy (or not enjoy!) about the book?
If you read this as a child, does it still hold up for you as an adult?
Is there anything else you‘d like to discuss about Beautiful Joe?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
Do you think Saunders‘ choice of Joe as a first person narrator is effective? What does this add to (or take away from) the story?
Joe meets several other animal friends during the story: the other pets at the Morris home, the performing animals he sees in Riverdale, and Dandy “the Tramp.” What did you think of these other animals and their stories?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
Beautiful Joe is based on a true story & was written for a contest sponsored by the American Humane Education Society (Joe‘s real-life home of Meaford, Ontario was changed to Fairport, Maine). Its goal was to teach children to be kind to animals.
Do you think Beautiful Joe is effective in teaching this message? Why or why not?
What do you think in general about stories whose main goal is to teach a message?
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs (thanks for the tag; you, too @peaKnit and @Susanita! 😍😍😍)
1. Stay INTERESTED.
2. 📚🤫🤞🏻
3. Reading my weekly dose of THE OATMEAL: https://theoatmeal.com/
All are welcome to share! 😍
What a cute story told from the perspective of a dog! I love dogs so it was no surprise that I loved this book.
The story follows Teddy and his quest to find out what happened to his owner, Maggie. The book is told entirely through Teddy‘s perspective with some emails and texts messages between the humans interspersed throughout.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/review-unnatural-selection/
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead @BarbaraJean
I just saw you are reading this. A friend of mine gave this to me…she lived to be 108. When I saw your post I remembered I had this!
Just a little check-in halfway through reading Beautiful Joe!
🐶 How's your reading going?
🐶 What are your thoughts so far?
🐶 What stands out to you from the first half of the book?
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
1. Daisy, sounds happy.
2. Poncho, Crispina, Peaches, Leo
3. Olive (as in the other reindeer)
#WonderousWednesday
@Eggs
Today starts our #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead of Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders. This is one of our #LMMAdjacent books—Saunders was a contemporary of LMM, and another author who published with the nefarious L.C. Page Co. I‘ll post a check-in on 5/31 and we‘ll have our discussion on June 7. All are welcome—please comment if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!
“All monsters should live under bridges or in closets or at the ends of dead-end roads.”
This was one of my first King books, mid-1980s.
#Monster
#Bibliophile
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