The True Adventures Of Shady Smoothflow Of Coneve
Two Small Dogs From Africa – Book Two
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When the world is a quite different place, a small dog adventures in Central Africa and then travels to England where she has a whole new life. Many years later she sits down to tell her story to the human she owns – who happens to be my mother. Illustrated by the legendary Takashi Masunaga and the talented Colombian artist Daniel Arce-Lopez these more or less true stories are told in Shandy’s own words. Stories for young readers and the adults who read with them.
Shandy was a wire haired terrier who was born and adventured in Zambia before she made the long and difficult transition to England. Where her brother Roly’s adventures involved many dog friends, Shandy’s were more focused on her family and the two very special dogs in her life: the tragic Great Dane Emerson and the indomitable rescue dog Mungo.
Toward the end of her long and varied life, Shandy asked my mother Sylvia Lawrence to write her biography. It wasn’t that she could speak like some cartoon dog. It was that my mother could understand exactly what she was saying. As Shandy herself put it “Some of us really do understand more or less exactly what humans are saying, and I’m one of those lucky ones. The problem is that even those of us who understand human talk can’t actually talk back. So that’s where telepathy comes in. That’s how you understand me and how you can tell my story; but you’ll need to explain this to the humans who read it because otherwise they won’t believe this is really me!”