Ms. Walsh says booksellers believe “Sammy in the Sky” is written for children aged four to eight. But she believes it is a book for children and adults of any age. She told VOA “any person … can relate to this book; it is about love and loss, death and grief, reconciliation and reckoning with heart-felt and tender emotions.”
Although Sammy’s death broke their hearts, Barbara, her husband Eric Conrad and her daughters recovered. And life, as it always does, as it always must, went on. But there was an emptiness, an emptiness that could only be filled by a dog. A year after Sammy died, the family rescued Jack. And when we say rescue, we really mean it. Jack is a Tennessee coon hound. His former owners had severely beaten him, his mother and sister. They were left in the woods to die, dumped like trash.
After years of promises and love from Barbara and her family, Jack finally believes he will never again be hurt, or left to die. In Jack, the family now has a dear and loyal, trusting and protective friend. He is not a replacement for Sammy. No, that could never happen. But in Jack, as in Sammy, there is…a book. Barbara Walsh will write it through Jack’s eyes, eyes still holding fear but now, love and trust.
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MARIO RITTER: This program was written by Christopher Cruise, who also read our report. Daisy Bracken read from the book. I’m Mario Ritter. You can see some of the pictures Jamie Wyeth painted for the “Sammy in the Sky” book at our website, voaspecialenglish.com.
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