Book Trailer Premiere: Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of Our Best Friends by Sarah Albee
Hi, Sarah Albee! Thank you for stopping by to share the book trailer for Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of Our Best Friends. I know your daughter created the book trailer for Poison: Deadly Deed, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines. Did she create the trailer for Dog Days of History?
Sarah Albee: She did. It was extremely providential to have spawned a child who can cast, direct, produce, edit, and compose music.
Please
tell us about one of the images featured on Dog
Days of History’s cover.
Sarah Albee: Can I talk
about two? Because if you remove the dust jacket, you can see two cool images
on the front and back case cover underneath. I love when designers do that, and
Nat Geo let me help choose the pictures.
What was
one of the most surprising or interesting facts you learned while writing Dog Days of History?
Sarah Albee: Oh, Mr.
Schu, I learned so many cool facts! But here’s one: Did you know that as
recently as the mid-20th century, dogs kept as pets were a luxury enjoyed
mostly by the wealthy? Ordinary people didn’t have time or space or money to
care for a pet dog. Most dogs, like most people, were expected to work for a
living. They herded and hunted for us. They guarded and protected us. They went
to battle with us, and rescued us. They acted as bed-warmers, foot-warmers,
lap-warmers, and poison tasters. And because people used to eat with their
fingers (forks weren’t used regularly until the 1600s), dogs could also be
handy stand-ins as table napkins.
OK, that
was more than one fact. But we’ve known each other a long time, Mr. Schu. You
knew I couldn’t stop at one.
Thank you for not stopping at one fact. :)
Thank you for not stopping at one fact. :)
Dogs have always been a part of my life. They have shown me what love looks like, and have taught me a thousand other things, big and small. I hope my kid readers are lucky enough to get to know and love a dog.
Alexander Hamilton: A Plan for America
is a biography for young readers I wrote for the new HarperCollins I Can Read! History series. It comes out
in July. And seeing the musical was of course
part of my research.
Life on Surtsey by Loree Griffin Burns
Breakout by
Kate Messner (coming out in June)
Look for Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of OUR BEST FRIENDS on March 27, 2018.
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