![]() ![]() It became clear that there was an opportunity to do more. When those two books were out there, kids just ate them up. As I did the research, I learned about the organization called Dogs for Defense, which recruited family pets - 25,000 of them - for the war effort. ![]() The dog plays such a big role in Dash, I thought, okay, I wonder if there are other dog stories out there. My editor, Lisa Sandell, had asked me if I had another idea because they would like to do that book first - the book that wasn't written. Kirby Larson: I wish I could tell you I had a little crystal ball and saw that this would make a wonderful series, but really what happened was the first book that I wrote, Dash, was the second book published. Roger Sutton: What gave you the idea for your Dogs of World War II series? Code Word Courage is another home-front story set during the war, this one about a girl, Billie, who acquires a dog thanks to her brother's service buddy, Denny, a recruit in the Marines' code talker communication program in the Pacific theater. I met Kirby Larson when she won the Scott O'Dell award for Historical Fiction for her 2014 book Dash, about a girl separated from her dog when her family is forced to move to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. ![]()
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