Bring Back Barkley

I ordered this book because I had taken a writing course from the author a number of years ago and I was excited to see my books on the same sites as hers. I bought one Barkley book and then had to have them all! Barkley reminds me of our little Taffy and the books are such fun to read. If you have kids they will love this book but you will enjoy it too-especially if you have your own version of Barkley. Thena Smith (Where's Thena? I Need a Poem)

BRING BACK BARKLEY is the 3rd book in my series about Barkley. When I got ready to write it, I decided I wanted the dog to have some crazy adventures with a bird. At first I thought a parrot might be fun because it could talk. But a parrot would be too heavy to land on Barkley's head. Then I thought about a parakeet. But a parakeet would be too small to cause much trouble. When I decided to use a cockatiel, I discovered that my editor owned one of these birds. She was a great help in making the bird become real.