Selected Product: | Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale Paperback Author: Dan Dye, Mark Beckloff Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Release Date: 2003-03-04 ISBN-10: 0761129758 ISBN-13: 0019628129758 List Price: $10.95 Average Customer Rating: | | The Art of Racing in the Rain ISBN-10: 0061537934 ISBN-13: 9780061537936 List Price:$23.95 Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog ISBN-10: 0156034506 ISBN-13: 9780156034500 List Price:$15.00 Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish ISBN-10: 1416559132 ISBN-13: 9781416559139 List Price:$22.00 A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me ISBN-10: 0812966902 ISBN-13: 9780812966909 List Price:$12.95 Lost & Found ISBN-10: 0061128643 ISBN-13: 9780061128646 List Price:$13.95 |
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye, Mark Beckloff (ISBN-10: 0761129758, ISBN-13: 0019628129758). At this time we have not yet written a review for Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye, Mark Beckloff (ISBN-10: 0761129758, ISBN-13: 0019628129758). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Now in paperback, AMAZING GRACIE is a moving, funny, and inspirational canine rags-to-riches story. Tears will stain the pages as you read about Gracie, says USA Today. The Chicago Tribune advises, If you're short on inspiration, read Amazing Gracie. You don't have to be obsessed with dogs to love this story (Philadelphia Enquirer), Two paws up (Portland Oregonian), humorous yet poignant (ASPCA Animal Watch). Booklist comments that Dog-loving teens, especially reluctant readers, will eat this up. AMAZING GRACIE was nominated as a Young Adult Choice for 2002 by The International Reading Association-proof that it's a great crossover book. Gracie was a deaf and partially blind albino Great Dane with a delicate constitution and a penchant for small miracles. Dan is the man-sad over the loss of his last dog and trapped in a dead-end job-who adopted her. Three Dog Bakery is the burgeoning and much-publicized chain of canine bakeries that, inspired by Gracie, Dan and his friend Mark founded. A love story, AMAZING GRACIE describes how Dan saves Gracie, the loneliest pup in the litter, then how, over the next ten years, Gracie saves Dan and Mark, teaching them the real meaning of happiness. There's the moment of meeting, when Gracie gets to her feet like a clumsy foal and nuzzles Dan's nose. Gracie's romance with the pint-size Boston Terrier next door. And the eureka moment (born of Gracie's anorexia-inducing dislike for commercial dog food): Dan teaches himself to cook and within three days begins baking the dog cookies that will transform their lives. AMAZING GRACIE is a dog-lover's treat. 5 stars and 4 paws up | Customer Rating: | If Dan Dye ever decides to stop baking dog biscuits, he's got a sterling career ahead of himself as an author.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book, even for readers who are not dog crazy, like me. Dye is a talented writer whose humor shines through from the very first page to the last. He takes the reader along on a journey of self-discovery with his deaf Great Dane, Gracie, as his sage and guide.
As with other books that relate stories of living with multiple pets, chaos ensues for much of the story, as Dye recounts the very specific challenges of raising a dog with special needs. Gracie helps Dan discover a latent talent that spins off into a booming business.
I give this book 4 paws up.
C.A.Wulff - author of Born Without a Tail
| Inspirational, Loving, and Quick | Customer Rating: | | Amazing Gracie was a joy to read! It's really two books in one: 1) a loving tribute about a beloved family pet, and the impact a pet can make in one's life, 2) how passion can lead one into a very successful business. The third benefit is that the book is written in a lively conversational style that makes it a quick read. As soon as I finished the book I passed it along to a friend to read......loved it! | Amazing Gracie | Customer Rating: | | The writing style was a bit tedious at the beginning, but it improved and I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It is a good story of not about the dog only, but also how you can turn your life around to what you want it to be by simply not giving up and putting in whatever it takes to get it. And, let us not forget the fact that it took a dog to do it. Animals are truly great partners because they need us and inspire us with their unconditional love. | dog stories | Customer Rating: | | This is another wonderful story told with a lot of love. Right up there with Marley and Me and Merle's Door. You can read this more than once. I just wish the book was longer because there were so many great tales of this dog and her owners. They really loved their dog. | Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale | Customer Rating: | | Great story about Gracie and her "family"! Having a German Shepherd who is partially deaf, blind in one eye, and dumped in a trash can at 10 weeks old, I can certainly relate to Dan (and Mark) and their quest to raise a "special needs" dog. It's a wonderful [true] story for anyone who is a dog lover! |
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