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Conversation with Joy McCullough & Sheyda Abvabi Best, 5 p.m., via Zoom. Interactive conversation about “Champ & Major: First Dogs.” Registration required at lewes.lib.de.us on Virtual Programs for Adults page. Instructions emailed to participants following registration.
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Purchases from Browseabout Books to benefit Delaware Humane Association
Author Joy McCullough will read from her children’s book, “Champ and Major: First Dogs,” in an online event Jan. 19. FILE PHOTO January 12, 2021
To celebrate the “indoguration” of Major Biden and the official launch of Joy McCullough’s children’s book, “Champ and Major: First Dogs,” a public virtual book launch event will be held at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19. Animal lovers of all ages are invited to join the live discussion on Zoom. The event is co-hosted by Browseabout Books, Lewes Public Library and Delaware Humane Association.
Browseabout Books is also donating $2 from each book sale to the Delaware Humane Association. Proceeds will help support necessary lifesaving services to homeless animals under DHA care.
Susan Faust January 12, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:06 am
Mainstream children’s publishers have mostly shied away from books about the 45th president. Standing almost alone is a highly critical young adult biography from last year, “Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump” by Martha Brockenbrough (Feiwel & Friends and reviewed in September 2019).
Yes, there are Trump parodies and coloring books for kids, but editor Jill Santopolo from Philomel, a division of Penguin Random House, sheds some light on the near vacuum of more serious-minded works.
“Our goal is to publish books that inspire and empower and teach children about kindness, compassion and inclusivity,” she explained in a recent interview. “Donald Trump didn’t feel like the right subject matter match for our list.”
A pet-loving family heads to the White House after four-year poochless hiatus
Maura Judkis, The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2021
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In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden made a visit to the Syracuse, N.Y., elementary school where his late first wife, Neilia, once taught. Amid a crowd of enthusiastic fifth-graders, one had an important question for the vice president: Have you ever petted a dog?
Biden grew animated, reported the local paper, the Post-Standard. Have I ever petted a dog? he said. Oh, yeah! And guess what! I got one that lives with me! The smartest, coolest dog in the world. His name is Champ, and he s a German shepherd, and he is the neatest dog!