The Story Puppy by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Are you sure?” Mattie eyed him sleepily at breakfast on Saturday morning. “You know I’m going now – before I have to go to work? As in, you’d better be dressed in three minutes if you really want to come?”

Jack didn’t need to think about it. He dashed upstairs and threw on some clothes. He was back in the kitchen before Mattie had got halfway through her cereal.

“Is that OK, Mattie?” Mum asked, stirring her tea. “Jack won’t be in your way?”

“I’m helpful!” Jack pointed out, feeling annoyed. “I put the food out for the dogs, and on Wednesday…” He trailed off. He’d forgotten he wasn’t going to tell anyone about Daisy.

“On Wednesday what?” Mum asked.

“On Wednesday I did my homework at the shelter and I finished my reading book,” Jack went on hurriedly.

“Oh, Jack, that’s brilliant!” His mum shook her head. “Why didn’t you say?”

“I’ve got another one.” Jack sighed. “It’s a non-fiction book about sharks. But it looks OK, I suppose.”

He stuck the book in the pocket of his anorak when he set off with Mattie. He wanted to see if Daisy would listen to him reading again. If she came out from under the basket today, it would be like a scientific experiment, where you did the same thing again to make sure you got the same results twice.

He’d been a bit worried there would be lots of visitors looking at the dogs because it was a weekend – he didn’t want a load of strangers hearing him reading. But when he asked, Mattie explained that they tried to encourage people to look at the dogs online first.

“It’s upsetting for the dogs sometimes, having lots of people walking up and down and pointing at them,” she told him as they hung up their coats in the little staffroom.

“If they look at the dogs online, we can bring the ones they want to meet to the visitors’ room, so they can get to know them.”

Lucy and Adrian and Mattie were busy showing dogs and cats to people hoping to adopt, and whenever they had a spare minute they were working out a plan for a fundraising event at the shopping centre close to Jack’s school. So no one noticed that when Jack had finished washing up the dogs’ water bowls, he hurried round to Daisy’s pen. Her tail was sticking out again, but he was sure the lump under the dog bed looked bigger. She was growing.

“I’ve got a new book,” he explained, waving it at the wire front of the pen. “You probably don’t know what sharks are, but they’re interesting. They’ve been around for hundreds of millions of years – I never knew that till I got this book.”

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