Showing results for "Get a Life" in Animal Fiction

Blue's Clues' Magenta has to get glasses, and she's very nervous! Will the eye doctor's office be scary? What will the eye exam be like? Come along and find out!

Jane and Peter live in a comfortable small house with their mother and father. They often play together in their back yard. When they were small, they had two pet guinea pigs. When the guinea pigs died, they cried, although Peter pretended not to cry by turning away and covering his face. But because they were so sad, their father promised them that next Christmas he would take them to get a dog or a cat—provided they promised to look after it properly! Finally, the day arrives when Jane and Peter are taken by their father to the RSPCA animal sanctuary.

Children facing cancer - whether their own, a family member's, a friend's, or even a pet's - will find help in understanding the disease through this audiobook. A young boy discovers his dog's lump, which is then diagnosed with those dreaded words: "it's cancer". The boy becomes a loving caretaker to his dog, who undergoes the same types of treatments and many of the same reactions as a human under similar circumstances (transference).

Los niños que afrontan el cáncer - sea su propio, un miembro de la familia, un amigo, o hasta un animal doméstico - encontrarán en este libro ayuda para el entendimiento de esta enfermedad. Un muchacho joven descubre una protuberancia en su perro, quien luego es diagnosticado con esas palabras temidas: "Es cáncer".