Big Dog, Little Puppy
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This book is about Little Puppy, Big Dog (Grandpa) and young boy growing up on the farm. Learning new things and how to be safe. Exploring everything, learning to swim, catching fish and crawfish in the stream. A closeup encounter with a skunk, that was a good lesson. Playing with Young Boy and his new girl friend, soon his wife. Young Boy going to war and the tragedy when he was lost. Playing with the new boy, and then the heroic actions of Grandpa. learning about Heaven and Grandpa going to be with Young Boy and meeting Jesus.
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About the Book
Little puppy is adopted and goes to live on a farm, where meets The Big Dog who he calls Grandpa. He has so much fun growing up with Grandpa and his human family. He explores the many new things that he finds, he gets into trouble and has to call for Grandpa to come to help him. He plays in the creek trying to catch fish and crawfish, he gets into trouble when he goes into deep water, but Grandpa comes to help him. He meets with a skunk that he thought was another cat. " Another lesson well learned!" He plays with Young Boy and goes with him to meet the school bus. Grandpa teaches him about the dangers on the farm. Then he meets Young Boy's girl friend that he likes very much. He has so much fun with the young woman. Young boy and the young woman gets married and goes away for a while. When they come back he is very happy and runs to meet them. Then Young Boy had to go the army and go to war. That was a very sad time for Young Puppy. When the young woman brings home a new baby Little Puppy was happy to see him, he looked so much like Young Boy, as the baby grew they played together all the time. Then there was a tragic accident and Grandpa went to be with Young Boy. Young Boy said to Grandpa come on it's time to meet JESUS.
About the Author
Don Maples was raised in a large family on a farm in east Tennessee as share crop farmers. After serving in the army for eight years, he worked in the private sector. Twice in his life he has had up close encounters with skunks and knows just what the spray and bad odor is. A few years ago, the words to this book kept coming to his mind. He had never even thought about writing a book, but the words kept coming back. He wrote Big Dog, Little Puppy in the hopes that someone will get some inspiration from it. I had never even thought about writing a book, but the words kept coming back over and over.