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SUMMARY / DESCRIPTION: I wouldn't part with this book but I already have a copy in my precious dog story book collection. This vintage treasure will please any and all dog lovers, but especially Kerry Blue Terrier dog owners.
Sociable Toby was written in the mid-1950's. It describes the time when many little communities were changing from large, frame multigenerational homes to smaller single generational homes. It was also a time when electricity was first available, both for the new homes, with their electric refrigerators and heating systems, as well as the older homes, with their ice-boxes, kerosene lamps and coal stoves.
Such is the setting of Sociable Toby. Toby, a Kerry Blue Terrier is purchased by a woman living alone in one of those old, multigenerational homes. Her family was all gone, and her former neighbors had all moved away, selling their old, large homes that had been razed so that the new, smaller homes could be built. The neighborhood had changed from old friends to younger families with children, a neighborhood that now attracted many sales people and other strangers. The protagonist of the story, Miss Emma Dusenberry decides she needs a guard dog given the fact that there were now so many strangers in the neighborhood. She wanted a dog that was not too small and not too large, a dog that would not shed, a dog that would bark when strangers came to the door, but that would not bite the small children.
Toby was living in a pet store when Miss Dusenberry found him. He had been very lonely in the pet store and had high hopes for adventure when Miss Dusenberry took him home. Miss Duesnberry thought buying this dog would bring her peace and quiet from the sales people and neighborhood children, however, to quote from the story, she "couldn't see the mischievous gleam in Toby's eyes behind the black fur. She didn't know what a sociable dog she had brought home." These are the predictive words that end the first of three chapters.
TITLE: Sociable Toby
AUTHOR/ WRITTEN BY: Eleanor Clymer
ILLUSTRATED / ART WORK by: Ingrid Fetz
PUBLISHER: Guild Book 1956 Franklin Watts. Might be a First Edition
FORMAT, CONDITION # PAGES: 82 pages. Hardcover book in Good clean, strong, and tight Condition. The cover is a little faded. The former owners name is written on the first page. A couple of the pages have a little smudge. No writing, folds or tears. No odors.
This is a NON SMOKING home. I've collected my new and used books from yard sales, retail stores, school book fairs, and thrift shops.
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Why should children have all the fun? Enjoy a "children's" book! I know you will love the stories and beautiful illustrations. You don't have to pretend to buy my books for your children and grandchildren. I'll understand. . .
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