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dereadergal's review against another edition
2.0
A sweet story about a guide dog helping out a blind woman through her daily routine. As an adult I understood the subject matter, but not once was it explained in the story to the intended child audience that Perry was a seeing eye dog who was helping out a blind woman. It was finally on the last page after the story was over did it mention who Sarah was, why she needed Perry, and how he became trained. Wouldn't that be a great bit of information to add to this story?
I particularly didn't understand the line "Although Sarah knew when he was eyeing a bagel, she needed help not bumping into things and avoiding cars." Does anyone out there wonder like me, first, what a bagel is doing on the ground while they're walking (and numerous enough times that she supposedly knew it was a bagel), and second, how did she know it was a bagel in the first place when she can't see?! Am I missing something here?
I also thought that the illustrations could have been a bit better and looked a bit generic.
I particularly didn't understand the line "Although Sarah knew when he was eyeing a bagel, she needed help not bumping into things and avoiding cars." Does anyone out there wonder like me, first, what a bagel is doing on the ground while they're walking (and numerous enough times that she supposedly knew it was a bagel), and second, how did she know it was a bagel in the first place when she can't see?! Am I missing something here?
I also thought that the illustrations could have been a bit better and looked a bit generic.
snazel's review against another edition
4.0
Lovely little introduction to the life of a service dog (seeing eye dog, in this case) and introduced me to a pretty remarkable story I didn't know. Sarah and Perry (the characters in this book) walked from Boston to NYC— 300 miles— as an example of what blind people can do.
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